Martellgrowthsolutions
Technical Leader
Waterloo, Ontario. Posted a month ago
The role
This Technical Leader will own product engineering at Winly. You will write code daily while coordinating a small team of engineers and contractors to build a reliable, scalable product using AI-native workflows.
What you will do
- Set technical direction and make pragmatic architecture decisions.
- Write production code, review pull requests, debug issues, and ship product improvements.
- Own reliability, security, performance, and customer experience quality.
- Use AI-native development tools and workflows.
- Establish engineering fundamentals including testing, CI/CD, code review, documentation, monitoring, and incident response.
- Coordinate engineers and contractors around outcomes and priorities.
- Translate customer insight and business priorities into a technical roadmap.
- Report roadmap progress, product performance, and technical health to the Martell Ventures board.
- Communicate complex technical decisions in clear business terms.
Required qualifications
- 7+ years building and operating production software.
- Experience leading a small team, contractors, or a technical function.
- Track record as a hands-on builder owning systems from architecture through deployment and operations.
- Experience shipping AI-enabled product features and working with modern AI models, tools, and development workflows.
- Strong product judgment to connect technical decisions to customer and business outcomes.
- Experience building reliable systems and owning uptime, security, performance, cost, and incident response.
- Ability to create clarity and set standards for a small team.
- Clear communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders, including executives and boards.
- High ownership and comfort operating in an early-stage environment.
About the company
Winly is an AI-powered sales platform that helps teams turn digital conversations into qualified opportunities and booked calls. It is a Martell Ventures portfolio company.