Senior Engineering Lead

Senior Engineering Lead

Full-Stack · Cloud-Native · DevSecOps

About Protexxa

Protexxa is a Canadian cybersecurity company building a human-risk and credential-exposure platform that helps organizations and their people stay ahead of account takeover and identity-based threats. We’re a small, fast-moving team shipping a real product to real customers — which means high ownership, short paths from idea to production, and engineering decisions that actually stick.

The Role

We’re looking for an Engineering Lead who is equally comfortable shaping architecture in a design doc and shipping the feature themselves. You’ll set technical direction across a full-stack, cloud-native product, build the paved road that lets everyone ship securely and fast, and lead a small development team (internal engineers plus a distributed/offshore partner). Security isn’t a side quest here — it’s the product and the way we build.

Role details

• Level: Senior

• Location & work model: Hybrid — onsite in Toronto, ON

• Employment type: Full-time

• Reports to: Director, Customer Success & Product

What you’ll do

• Lead the team. Set technical direction and standards, mentor engineers, run code review, and own delivery quality. Coordinate sprint cadence and the quality bar across internal and offshore engineers.

• Stay hands-on. Design and ship full-stack features end to end — frontend, backend, and the APIs in between.

• Own the cloud-native architecture. Containers, serverless, and infrastructure-as-code across AWS and GCP, built for scale and reliability.

• Build the paved road (DevSecOps). CI/CD pipelines with automated testing and security gates baked in — SAST/DAST, dependency and secrets scanning, secure-by-default defaults — so security is a property of the pipeline, not a manual step.

• Set the bar for AI-assisted development. Define how the team uses AI coding tools (we work with Claude / Claude Code) responsibly — where they accelerate delivery and where human review and security checks stay non-negotiable.

• Partner with product. Translate the roadmap into well-scoped, deliverable work and make sensible build/sequence calls.

• Raise engineering quality. Drive test coverage, observability, and operational reliability across the stack.

• Support our compliance posture. Keep practices audit-ready (SOC 2) through secure SDLC habits and evidence that’s a by-product of how we work.

What you bring

• Years of experience building and shipping production full-stack applications (modern frontend + backend services).

• Strong command of a modern stack — e.g., React/TypeScript on the front end with Node, Python, or Go on the back end — and well-designed REST/GraphQL APIs.

• Deep cloud-native experience on AWS and/or GCP: containers (Docker/Kubernetes), serverless, and IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation).

• Hands-on DevSecOps: building CI/CD pipelines, automated security testing, secrets management, and a secure software development lifecycle.

• Experience running or leading a development team — mentoring, technical direction, and owning delivery, including with distributed teams.

• Solid grounding in application security fundamentals (authn/authz, common vulnerability classes, secure coding).

• Fluency using AI-powered coding assistants / agentic tools — i.e., Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity, KIRO

Additional Qualifications

• Cybersecurity or identity domain experience — OIDC, SAML, passkeys/WebAuthn, IAM/identity brokering.

• Experience in a SOC 2 or otherwise regulated/compliance-driven environment.

• Track record coordinating with offshore or distributed engineering team members.

• Exposure to ML/AI-adjacent products or data pipelines.

• Track record of maturing and scaling a product beyond its initial launch.

• Certifications in AWS or GCP cloud development and architecture.

Our environment

• Cloud: AWS + GCP, containerized services, infrastructure-as-code.

• Identity & security: modern auth (OIDC/SAML, passkeys), security gates in CI/CD, SOC 2 posture.

• Team: small and high-ownership, internal + distributed partner, direct line to product and leadership.

Compensation & benefits

• Competitive base salary.

• Meaningful equity in an early-stage company.

• Commission on sales you personally close.

• Discretionary annual bonus.

• Comprehensive health benefits package.

• Paid vacation.

• You will be provided with the necessary equipment and accessories to perform your role.

• Protexxa is an equal-opportunity employer. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds and are committed to an inclusive hiring process. Accommodations are available on request at any stage.