Engineering Lead
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About Float
Float is on a mission to simplify finance for Canadian businesses empowering them to eliminate complexity and unlock new opportunities. Through our innovative platform Float enables businesses to streamline financial operations and optimize cash flow so they can focus on what matters most: growth.
As one of Canadas fastest growing companies and top-rated startups in 2024 and 2023 Float is customer-obsessed passionate and entrepreneurial with a team that includes leaders from Uber Shopify Top Hat TouchBistro and Ada.
At Float everyone is an owner bringing their unique perspective to our team and product. Your voice is important and we take having a culture based on feedback seriously. We openly share our thoughts and differing opinions so we can continue to improve. We do our best to keep our decision-making decentralized so that all team members feel ownership in our success.
Our Product
Float is Canadas complete business finance platform combining modern financial services and software to help businesses spend save and grow. Trusted by 4000 Canadian companies Float provides high-limit corporate cards automated expense management next-day bill payments high-yield accounts and fast friendly supportall built in Canada for Canada. Float is backed by world-class venture and fintech investors including Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives and OMERS Ventures partners behind our $70 million Series B raise.
Our team is a collection of ambitious collaborative and mission-driven people from all walks of life but with one goal: helping Canadian companies not just survive but thrive. And were looking for bold innovators to help shape the future of business finance in Canada.
About the Engineering Lead Role
Were looking for an outstanding Engineering leader to join Float and lead a team thats building the best finance platform in Canada. Floats a product-led business and as an Engineering Lead youll have complete ownership of your area. If youd like to know more about Engineering @ Float read up on our Engineering Principles.
About the Role
You will split your time between being a key hands-on contributor (which includes developing new features maintaining and improving existing systems and participating in design and code reviews) delivering against Floats product roadmap and leading a team of talented engineers
Youll own end-to-end engineering delivery outcomes for your product vertical overseeing the product development process ensuring timely and high-quality delivery of new features and improvements and partnering with others to prioritize and address technical challenges
Youll represent engineering for your area of the product in all key meetings collaborating with key stakeholders including our co-founders customers and internal partners to understand their needs gather feedback and incorporate it into the product roadmap and development process as appropriate
Youll ensure the technical integrity of the product code quality and adherence to best practices. Youll be involved in coding reviewing debugging and troubleshooting
Youll gain a deep understanding of our customers and their challenges through our customer discovery stages and translate that knowledge into our product roadmap and technical design
Youll be responsible for your product verticals customer experience quality and product development.
Youll help to recruit develop and retain amazing talent to Float
What Youll Be Responsible For
Youll lead a team of engineers through the product development lifecycle
Youll ship high quality code to production in an iterative fashion while meeting key product deadlines
Youll work with your team to design high throughput and stable systems
Youll talk to customers to understand their needs
Youll identify analyze and mitigate risks that could affect project timelines or product quality
Youll develop implement and refine engineering processes and practices to improve efficiency productivity and quality
Youll work with the engineering leadership team to scale Floats organization
About You
Heres what sets you up for success at Float:
You Put Customers First Always. You care deeply about delivering meaningful value. Whether youre building internal systems or customer-facing features youre always thinking about how to make life better for our users.
You Act Like an Owner. You take responsibility for outcomes step up to challenges and seek solutions proactivelydoing whats best for the business not just your role.
You Think Big and Move Fast. Youre energized by building from 0 to 1. Youre not afraid to challenge the status quo experiment quickly and learn as you go.
You Constantly Learn and Grow. Youre hungry to improve your craft and open to feedback. You bring a growth mindset to everything you do.
You Raise the Bar. You care about doing things well and efficiently. You balance speed with rigor and always look for ways to improve how we work.
You Win as a Team. Youre a generous collaborator who values communication context and shared wins. You lift others up and help make the team stronger.
In addition to living our values you are:
Experienced. To be successful in this role were looking for 7-10 years of B2B SaaS startup experience. Experience with business payments banking and finance is a bonus. Youve led an engineering team at a growing startup have experienced the growing pains of scaling a product and growing an engineering team and want to join another early stage company to do it all again.
Motivated by being a leader. You have previous experience leading teams of engineers and partnering with product managers product designers product ops data analysts etc. An excellent cross-functional communicator with the ability to influence multiple stakeholders youre able to navigate any natural tensions between various groups.
Product-obsessed. You care about the details with a strong data-driven metrics approach. No stranger to an Agile environment youve managed product boards prioritized engineering decisions and understand software concepts backend systems and API specs. You love the craft of shipping software and take pride in the outcome.
An owner. You take complete ownership and accountability of delivery and outcomes. You translate business requirements into technical specifications overseeing the development process and ensuring successful deployment. You are ready and willing to make tough decisions to achieve broader business goals and outcomes.
Eager to continue your own learning. Scrappy and voracious you want to know the why behind every answer. Youre a creative thinker who can combine quantitative thinking with a great technical design. Finding creative ways to work through obstacles is fun for you.
A strong believer in putting customers first. Youll advocate endlessly for our customers and have a natural curiosity to understand their needs and are obsessed with customer research. Youre also a confident writer and speaker and can convey the needs of our customers and their technical requirements succinctly and clearly.
Action oriented. You are ready to roll-up your sleeves to get building and want to see your technical design in our product. You have an understanding of how long it takes to get a technical idea into a product and know who to work with and how to get it implemented - you are comfortable with overseeing all aspects of a project.
Familiar with our market. Youve worked with accounting/finance related products or have worked closely with finance leaders. Youre commercially focused with an understanding of the market and the business were in. Youre no stranger to an ROI mindset.
This may not be the role for you if:
You dont want to be in a player-coach role
You are not a self-starter and do not like to work independently
You arent obsessed with your craft
You dont like ambiguity
You dont like regular feedback on your work
You are uncomfortable with direct feedback
You prefer stability over change
You arent comfortable ruthlessly prioritizing
You dont like to work remotely or asynchronously
You dont have a very strong work ethic
You arent a team player
You arent resilient
You have an ego
You arent super passionate about helping Float build the best finance management platform in Canada
Why You Should Join
Work at one of Canadas fastest-growing fintech companies
Make a real impact in a high-autonomy high-growth role
Collaborate with an ambitious and supportive team
Competitive compensation equity options and benefits
Hybrid work model we are based in Toronto with in-office days for connection and collaboration
Enjoy catered team lunches every Tuesday and Wednesday
Bring your pup to our dog-friendly office
Thrive in a high-trust high-performance culture where your work truly matters
In Short
At Float youll thrive if youre bold curious and eager to make a real impact. Were building something specialand having a lot of fun along the way. If youre excited to build grow and win together wed love to meet you.
Were committed to building a workplace thats welcoming and accessible for everyone. If you need any accommodations during the hiring process or once you join Float just let us know! You can reach out to Vic () and well work with you to make sure you have what you need to succeed.
Employment Type
Full-Time
