Lead Architect, Procurify
CA$193.5-250k
Procurement and purchasing software
Open for applications
Procurement and purchasing software
101-200 employees
Open for applications
CA$193.5-250k
101-200 employees
Company mission
To give all organizations unprecedented visibility and control over their business spend.
Role
Who you are
- This role is perfect for someone who combines deep technical expertise with system-level thinking, a pragmatic bias for action, and a desire to make architecture a multiplier of innovation and velocity
- 15+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years in senior or architectural roles
- Deep expertise in data systems, distributed architecture, and AI/ML infrastructure
- Strong experience with cloud-native platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and modern frameworks (e.g., Python, React, TypeScript, or similar)
- Proven ability to design and deliver scalable, maintainable systems in production environments
- Strong understanding of API design, event-driven systems, data modeling, and CI/CD practices
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills with the ability to influence across teams and levels
- Maintains a professional and current LinkedIn profile, ensuring it is updated upon joining Procurify to reflect their new role and maintain a consistent company presence
Desirable
- Experience integrating AI/ML systems into production environments
- Experience with data pipelines, warehouses, or streaming systems
- Track record of mentoring engineers and guiding system-level technical decisions
- Experience in SaaS, fintech, or enterprise product environments
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Lead Architect to define the next generation of Procurify’s cloud, data, and AI platforms
- This is a high-impact technical leadership role that spans system design, platform scalability, and data intelligence - ensuring our architecture remains resilient, extensible, and AI-ready as we scale
- You’ll partner closely with Product, Design, Engineering, and Data leaders (including the CPTO) to align architecture with business strategy, mentor senior engineers, and chart a vision that powers intelligent spend management at scale
- Architectural Leadership
- Define and evolve Procurify’s platform architecture across data, AI, and core systems
- Partner with product and engineering leadership to align architecture with long-term business strategy
- Guide technology decisions balancing innovation, maintainability, and performance
- Drive the design of scalable, secure, and reliable distributed systems spanning APIs, data pipelines, integrations, and infrastructure
- Hands-On Technical Impact
- Lead complex architectural and design reviews across multiple teams
- Build reference architectures, proofs of concept, and technical standards that accelerate velocity, raise the bar in engineering excellence, and improve developer experience
- Partner with Data and AI teams to design next-gen AI infrastructure and systems that enable intelligent automation
- Champion modern engineering practices, including CI/CD, observability, security, and reliability
- Stay current on emerging technologies (AI/ML, cloud, large-scale distributed systems) and bring the right innovations into our stack
- Cross-Functional Influence
- Collaborate with the CPTO and senior leaders to define and communicate the long-term technical direction
- Act as a connector between teams, ensuring consistent patterns, shared tooling, and architectural alignment
- Mentor engineers and technical leads, helping elevate engineering excellence and decision quality across the organization
- Contribute to hiring, technical culture, and knowledge sharing within the broader engineering org
- Strategic Outcomes
- Translate architectural vision into actionable, measurable initiatives
- Simplify and scale our platform while improving developer productivity and system resilience
- Contribute to technical hiring decisions and help shape the engineering organization’s growth
- Lead with CARES:
- Commitment: Demonstrates accountability and follow-through, delivering reliably and owning outcomes in a way that others can depend on
- Ambition: Takes initiative with curiosity and a growth mindset, pursuing bold ideas that elevate impact and performance
- Resilience: Shows adaptability, composure, and perseverance through challenges, staying focused and effective in a fast-changing environment
- Excellence: Brings rigor, collaboration, and a strong quality focus to deliver high-performing solutions and raise the bar for outcomes
- Simplicity: Applies focus, clarity, and streamlining to cut through complexity and enable efficient, impactful execution
Application process
- Please avoid including your picture and age on your resume
Our take
Business spending can be complex and intimidating, and companies often need to navigate multiple platforms. Companies need to find a way to make business decisions that are simple, well informed and ideally all on one platform.
Procurify helps businesses by assisting them to understand and align their organizational spending with their core values and business objectives. The company's procurement software offers a structured method that gains and tracks approvals for spending. The platform organises all purchasing and spend documents, and enhance the information that’s already in the accounting system.
The company is the leading spend management, purchasing, and procurement software platform and is used by hundreds of companies. More than just a platform, Procurity is focused on creating a new way of thinking about finance with that it calls Spend Culture, which helps teams make smarter, more purposeful spending decisions every day.
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Insights
-2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Oct 2023
$50m
SERIES C
Jun 2019
$26m
SERIES B
Total funding: $88.4m
Company benefits
- Remote-first: As a remote-first organization, our team can work anywhere within Canada
- Flexible work hours: We don’t have set hours. You have the flexibility to work on the schedule that works for you and your team
- Unlimited RTO: We know there’s more to life than just work, which is why we offer unlimited Responsible Time Off for all of our team members. We encourage our team to take breaks and unplug
- Health benefits: We prioritize our team’s health and wellbeing. We offer a competitive health, vision, and dental package along with an Employee Assistance Program (EAP), and a health and wellness spending account
- Stock options: Everyone has a chance to own a part of Procurify with our competitive stock program
- Financial wellbeing: We provide Wealthsimple programs and access to financial advisors to support our team’s diverse life goals
- Training and development: Personal and technical growth are things that we value, so we provide access to Pluralsight, Masterclass, and progressive career matrices
- Tech setup: We make sure our team is equipped with the right tools and tech to set them up for success from Day One
- Community initiatives: We have a strong commitment to giving back to our communities, including regular volunteer days, our Donate Your Day program, and education lunch and learns
- DEI initiatives: We run a diversity, equity, and inclusion roundtable monthly where we host guest speakers and tackle the topics that matter
- Referral program: It’s all about who you know. Our grand prize for our Referral Bonus Program is a bucket list vacation for two!
Company HQ
Downtown Vancouver, Vancouver, BC
Leadership
Chad Gaydos
(CEO)Previously a President at Total Expert, COO at Talkdesk, and COO and CRO at Skillsoft. They also spent over 18 years at SAP America as the COO of Regulated Industries.
Amy Wang
(CFO)Previously the CFO of Userful and a VP of Finance at Morgan Stanley. They also spent over 4 years at Solium as a Senior Financial Analyst and Assistant Controller.
Jeffrey Hardy
(CRO)Previously spent over 10 years at SAP in various roles, including Global Director of Strategic Markets & Programs and the Global Head of Strategic Sales.
Aman Mann
(Co-Founder & CSO)Co-Founded Procurify in 2012 and served as the CEO until 2025 when they moved to the role of CSO.
Eugene Dong
(Co-Founder & CTO)Co-Founded Procurify in 2013 and has served as the CTO since.
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