Director of Engineering, Artificial Intelligence (AI)

About Accommodations Plus International

API is the global leader in crew accommodation technology & services for the airline industry, with a strong service base in rail, cruise lines and sports teams. For more than 40 years, we have been offering a powerful combination of crew accommodation services delivered through innovative technology, unique software solutions, and a highly experienced team of service professionals, enabling our clients to maximize savings in all areas of travel operations.

Our Company is globally-supported by 794 employees and full-time dedicated consultants working from 59 locations around the world and is privately-held and headquartered in Melville, Long Island, New York.

Position Overview:
Lead and grow a team of 5 to 10 engineers. Contribute hands-on by writing code, shipping features, and tackling complex problems alongside the team. Set the standard for advanced AI-assisted development by demonstrating it yourself every day. Build the skills, plugins, and systems that give the team real leverage. Define and roll out the AI tooling, workflows, and practices that transform how engineering operates. Own architecture and system design across the stack. Apply AI not only to how we build, but also to what we build, shaping product capabilities and extending into business processes beyond engineering. Partner with product and business leaders to translate strategy into a technical roadmap.

Success in this Role

• AI adoption: engineers across the team are using AI tools effectively and consistently in their day-to-day work 

• Velocity: measurable, AI-driven increase in delivery speed (cycle time, deploy frequency, lead time for change) 

• Modernization: meaningful progress moving the platform off legacy patterns toward a modern, cloud-native architecture, accelerated by AI 

• Product and beyond: AI applied to the product itself and into wider business processes, with concrete shipped outcomes 

• Delivery: the team consistently ships on commitments against the product roadmap 

• Engineering excellence: best practices for AI-assisted development instilled across the team, including code review, testing, CI/CD, observability, and on-call discipline 

What You’ll Do

Essential Functions: Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Key responsibilities

• Leadership & Team Building: Lead and grow a team of 5 to 10 engineers across North America and India, fostering a high performance collaborative culture across time zones.
• Technical Leadership: Own architecture and system design across the stack. Drive delivery of Brcomplex, distributed systems on AWS. Stay close enough to the code to make sharp technical calls and mentor engineers on craft.
• Cross-Functional Impact: Partner with product and business leaders to translate strategy into technical roadmap. Drive alignment across teams and influence technical strategy.
• Delivery & Execution: Own delivery against the product and platform roadmap. Improve engineering velocity through process, tooling and best practice.
• Engineering Excellence: Raise the bar on code quality, testing, and operational excellence. Build strong observability and incident response practice. Leverage modern AI tools to improve productivity and quality.

What You’ll Bring

Minimum Qualifications

• Advanced, hands-on use of AI in the software development lifecycle: coding assistants, agentic workflows, custom tooling (skills, plugins, agents), code review, test generation. We expect you to demonstrate this live, not describe it in theory, and to show concretely how you’ve driven measurable gains for yourself and your teams 

• Experience rolling out tooling, practices, or ways of working to engineering teams, with the change management ability to make it stick
• At least 7 years of software development experience, with 3+ years leading a team. This includes hiring, performance management, and developing senior engineers
• Deep technical background in Java and Angular (or a comparable modern frontend framework such as React or Vue)
• Solid experience with Oracle, Postgres, or similar relational databases, including schema design, performance tuning, and the hard parts
• Working experience with NoSQL databases (e.g. DynamoDB, MongoDB, Cassandra) and a clear sense of when to reach for them
• Production AWS experience across compute, networking, and data services
• Ability to comprehend and contribute to systems design, including scalability, reliability, trade-offs, and failure modes

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience modernizing legacy Java systems with AI assistance, building internal AI developer platforms, or measuring and publishing AI productivity impact.

Education

• BSc/BA in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.

Position Type and Expected Hours of Work

• Experience modernizing legacy Java systems, multi-region AWS deployments.

Supervisory Responsibility

• Lead and grow a team of 5 to 10 engineers across North America and India, fostering a high performance collaborative culture across time zones.

What’s In it for You

• RRSP with employer matching
• Paid Time Off
• Extended health insurance, LTD, life insurance, and Employee Assistance Program
• High-growth oriented environment with results-driven team
• Opportunity to create high-impact change for real users worldwide

Compensation
Good faith annual salary range for this position is $190,000 to $200,000 CAD and is commensurate with experience and location.