Description:
This opportunity is fully remote and does not require you to be located in any particular area in Canada. We welcome applicants from throughout Canada. We’d love to have you apply, even if you don’t feel you meet every single requirement in this posting. At Yelp, we’re looking for great people, not just those who simply check off all the boxes.
What You'll Do
- Develop and drive a multi-year technology strategy for Yelp’s financial systems, with particular focus on integrating AI/ML for data analysis, reporting, planning, and anomaly detection.
- Lead multiple software development teams in architecting financial solutions at scale, ensuring systems support Yelp’s diverse and growing business, including complex revenue and billing models.
- Inspire, coach, mentor, and support your team members fostering both their day-to-day success and long-term professional growth.
- Facilitate technical conversations and critical decision-making around architecture and data flow with finance and engineering leaders, balancing priorities of compliance, risk, and business needs.
- Identify and execute on key initiatives to continuously improve financial system architecture, data flows, integration standards, and SOX compliance practices.
- Partner directly with executive leadership, including VPs and the CFO, aligning technology strategy with immediate and future business needs—challenging assumptions and driving innovation where needed.
- Hire and build a high-performing, inclusive team that reflects Yelp’s values, ensuring a fun, diverse, and growth-minded engineering culture.
What It Takes To Succeed
- Proven platform experience delivering new features and products through high-performing teams, with a strong solutions architecture background in complex financial environments (e.g. Oracle, Anaplan, and Zuora).
- Hands-on experience in software engineering and leadership, including architecting major systems,coaching and growing highly capable teams of engineers and analysts, and their managers.
- Technical depth in making architectural and design decisions for scalable, compliant financial platforms. Skilled at evaluating trade-offs between time-to-market, flexibility, and regulatory requirements.
- Demonstrated ability to influence executive decision-makers and align diverse stakeholders.
- History of creating and executing long-term technical vision, with proven examples of product or infrastructure roadmaps you have established that delivered incremental and long-term business value.
- Experience working with Agile methodologies in regulated financial system environments, maintaining data integrity and SOX compliance within fast-paced, iterative development cycles.
- Strategic thinker with a deep understanding of AI/ML and its practical application in automating, analyzing, and safeguarding financial systems at scale.