Director, Software Development

Join us to build a more rewarding financial future for all Canadians

At Neo, we’re on a mission to build a more rewarding financial future for all Canadians. Life at a rapidly scaling tech startup isn’t for everyone. It’s complex, fast-paced, high-pressure, but also incredibly fulfilling. Since its founding in 2019, Neo has gained incredible traction and is one of the fastest-growing fintech companies in Canada.

• #1 on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50 for 2023, 2024, and 2025 — the first company ever to achieve a three-peat at the top!
• #1 Fastest Growing Company in Canada for 2024 by Globe & Mail
• Top-ranked mobile apps and credit cards
• Team of 500+ people
• 1M+ customers
• 10K+ retail partners

We recruit, hire, and build our company culture around these attributes:

Teamwork: We trust, respect, encourage, and show up for each other — through good times and hard. We’re on this mission not just for ourselves, but also for the people we work with — and ultimately, for our customers.

Ownership: We all have a stake in Neo’s success — so we go out of our way to do what needs to get done. We hold ourselves accountable to deliver on our commitments — to our customers, to our partners, and to our team. When we fall short, we find a way to do better in the future.

Professional Integrity: We’re asking millions of Canadians to trust us with their hard-earned money — so we hold ourselves (and each other) to the highest standards of integrity.

Neo Financial is looking for a full-time Director, Software Development to join our team in Calgary. This is a rare opportunity to build products used by millions of Canadians, to get in the door at Canada’s fastest growing company, and to lead development of one of the most sophisticated fintech platforms on earth!

A successful Director at Neo is a charismatic, motivating, outgoing leader with expertise in engaging their teams, finding efficiencies, and in building software in the age of AI. We’re looking for someone proactive yet pragmatic, who takes initiative, manages multiple priorities, is data-driven with metrics, and exemplifies organized, fast-paced project delivery at Neo.

In this role your responsibility will cover multiple modern full-stack development teams delivering a combination of customer-facing app features with back-end financial data processing systems. Make your mark as you own roadmap projects across areas such as Lending, Deposit Accounts, Mortgages, Transactions, Anti-fraud, AML, Collections, or Operations.

Your personal success will be measured against goals in these key areas:

• Partner with Product Management. Work in a true partnership with our product leaders to co-plan roadmap initiatives and engineering epics.
• Understand and pursue our business, financial, and engineering-wide goals. A successful director can contextualize strategic company-wide goals into team goals, a plan, and a realistic timeline.
• Manage team capacity against delivery goals. Ensure the right levels of staffing and succession planning; execute weekly on recruiting and hiring tactics.
• Proactively bring credible improvement initiatives forward to the VP and CTO: new technologies, industry trends, opportunities to improve processes or culture.

• Accelerate our teams with aggressive, thoughtful adoption of AI into our SDLC.
• Prioritize where your teams spend their time, and set the right pace to keep delivery on-time while maintaining delivery scope, quality and standards.
• Assess and manage performance of teams and individuals to ensure we’re holding a high performance bar at all times - build a "best in Canada" team.
• Ensure resilient operation of production systems focusing on low occurrence of incidents or outages.
• Create transparency; maintain clear executive summaries for all stakeholders.

• Find and improve on ways to engage your team - we believe engagement is the most important priority in keeping high performance teams at their best.
• Provide challenges and career development opportunities for your team and for solid performers; align their growth with our top business needs.

• Be hands-on with training and…