Associate Director of Engineering, Platform

Associate Director of Engineering, Platform

Recognized as one of Canada’s top startups two years in a row — climbing from #4 in 2024 to #2 in 2025 — Hiive is a fintech/marketplace startup connecting buyers and sellers of stock in venture-backed pre-IPO companies🚀. Thanks to our industry-leading technology and best-in-class sales and trading team, we are home to the fastest-growing marketplace for the stock of “unicorns” on the planet.

As a profitable and rapidly growing business backed by US venture capital investors, we are seeking to scale our high-performing team.

Interested in learning more about life at Hiive? Check out our careers page to see how you can grow with us!

As the Associate Director of Engineering, Platform
, you will be a leader in the engineering organization, responsible for the operational success, technical strategy, and professional growth of our Dev Ops, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), and QA Engineering teams. With a strong foundation in platform engineering, infrastructure, QA automation, and proven people management skills, you'll oversee multiple teams, drive collaboration, and deliver a scalable, reliable, and high-performing platform.

You’ll partner closely with engineering leadership to shape and execute strategies, elevate platform maturity, and champion a supportive engineering culture.

• Leading, mentoring, and growing teams across Dev Ops, SRE, and QA Automation, fostering collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Overseeing the platform engineering teams, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and maintaining high performance across all initiatives.
• Conducting regular performance evaluations, providing actionable feedback, and supporting professional development and career progression.
• Managing hiring, onboarding, and scaling efforts as the team and organization grow.
• Assisting in scaling the organization by leading hiring efforts and helping to identify improvements in processes and workflows.
• Guiding technical architecture decisions related to platform, infrastructure, automation, and observability, ensuring solutions are scalable, maintainable, and align with industry best practices.
• Reviewing technical designs, providing expert insights for improvement.
• Proactively identifying gaps and advocating for best practices in reliability, security, automation, and developer experience, and advocate for effective solutions.
• Establishing and upholding standards for platform stability, reliability, quality, performance, and security, ensuring robust monitoring, validation, and response practices.
• Championing continuous improvements to developer productivity and platform usability, supporting product engineering teams in achieving their best work.
• Owning incident response processes, including resolution, post-mortems, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement activities.

• Experience in senior leadership roles managing Dev Ops, SRE, or QA automation teams.
• Previous work experience at a scaling startup.
• Proven experience in platform architecture, site reliability engineering, automation, and Dev Ops methodologies.
• Demonstrated success in defining platform strategy, architecture, reliability, and automation.
• Strong people management skills with proven ability to mentor, grow, and lead engineering teams.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to clearly engage both technical teams and non-technical stakeholders across product and engineering.

• Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS), particularly with strong proficiency in EKS, RDS, and VPC.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, Git Hub Actions for CI/CD pipelines, and Datadog for observability tooling.
• Previous experience working with and optimizing Postgre
  
  SQL.
• Experience with Cloudflare and Vercel.
• Experience with Playwright or similar test automation frameworks.
• Strong understanding of security best practices in platform engineering.
• Experience in regulated or high-compliance environments.
• Experience completing SOC2 or similar certifications.
• Experience working with Elixir.

• Highly competitive…