Platform Engineer, Developer Experience

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 5000 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 Platform Engineer Developer Experience role

This might just be the best Developer Experience opportunity in Canada (if we do say so ourselves). Were looking for an exceptional Platform Engineer Developer Experience to build simple elegant and highly intuitive internal tools that empower our engineering this role youll focus on developer experience developer tooling and AI adoption creating solutions that make our developers happier and more productive every day. You will play a critical role in building internal platforms and workflows used daily by Floats engineering organization.

If youd like to know more about Engineering @ Float read up on our Engineering Principles.

What Youll Be Responsible For

• Building and evolving a world-class internal developer platform: Design and implement tools frameworks and automation that streamline our development process. Youll create intuitive systems that make it easy for developers to build test and deploy code (our stack includes Python Django Postgres AWS but we value language-agnostic skills and choosing the best tool for the job).

• Improving developer workflows and tooling: Solve problems for your fellow engineers by understanding their needs and crafting both quick tactical fixes and strategic long-term solutions. This could include developing self-service pipelines one-click dev environments CI/CD improvements or internal dashboards to monitor build health and performance.

• Championing AI-powered development: Help developers adopt and use AI tools effectively. Youll evaluate and integrate AI/ML solutions (e.g. code assistants automated code review bots AI-driven documentation search) into our engineering workflow to boost productivity and code quality. You will also provide guidance and training so that the team can leverage these tools to the fullest.

• Collecting feedback and fostering consensus: Work closely with engineers across all teams to gather input on pain points and ideas. You might host developer roundtables send out surveys or have one-on-one chats to learn where our tooling can improve. Using your deep developer empathy you will ensure we build solutions that truly address the struggles developers face.

• Defining and tracking success metrics: Use data to drive decision-making and measure impact. Youll define key developer experience metrics for example deployment frequency build success rates onboarding time and Developer NPS (Net Promoter Score) and track improvements over time. You know how to quantify the value of tooling enhancements and communicate results ensuring our team continuously benefits from your work.

• Rapidly shipping improvements: You will have extreme ownership over the internal developer experience. Working in a small focused team (and collaborating with product infra and DevOps squads) youll be empowered to be decisive and move fast. Youll experiment iterate and quickly ship high-quality tooling updates and features that make our engineering workflow better week over week.

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 also have:

• Deep Developer Empathy: You have been a developer yourself and instinctively understand developers pain points. You actively listen to other engineers and empathize with their struggles which helps you design better solutions that truly address their needs.

• Strong Consensus-Building Skills: Youre experienced in talking to groups of engineers collecting feedback and getting buy-in for new tools or processes. You excel at communicating technical ideas in approachable ways and can align teams around common best practices.

• A Metrics-Driven Mindset: You focus on data and outcomes. You know how to measure your success through clear metrics (e.g. deployment time reduction fewer build failures higher Developer NPS) and use those insights to continually refine and prove the impact of your work.

• Passion for Tooling and Developer Experience: You love building tools automations and delightful developer experiences. You get satisfaction from optimizing workflows and seeing your fellow developers be more productive and happier because of what you built.

• Senior-Level Experience: 5 years of software development experience (or equivalent) in a fast-paced environment with a track record of building internal tools or platforms that improved team productivity. Youve likely been a senior or lead engineer in DevOps Platform Engineering or Full-Stack Development and have shipped high-quality solutions at scale.

• Technical Breadth and Agility: Familiarity with our tech stack (Python/Django TypeScript/React PostgreSQL AWS) is a strong asset but more importantly you can quickly learn new languages and technologies. Youre comfortable being language-agnostic and choosing the right tech to solve a given problem.

• Mission-Driven and Self-Motivated: You are energized by Floats vision and mission. You approach problems with curiosity urgency and a sense of purpose. As a leader of our developer experience you take ownership of your work and continually push yourself to master your craft and deliver value.

• A Leadership Mindset (Even as an IC): You have demonstrated the ability to lead initiatives and influence others without necessarily being a people manager. You mentor other developers in best practices and you take pride in driving projects from idea to adoption across the team.

• Customer (Developer) Advocacy: You believe your customers the developers come first. You will advocate relentlessly for the engineering teams needs and have a natural curiosity to dig into their feedback and problems to find the best solutions.
  

This may not be the role for you if

• You dont like change or adapting to new ways of doing this role youll be introducing new tools and processes and our environment is fast-moving and ever-evolving.

• You want a very organized and predictable day-to-day. Improving developer experience can be ambiguous and reactive we tackle the most pressing pain points which means priorities can shift as we discover new issues or opportunities.

• You arent comfortable with ambiguity. Many problems were solving dont have obvious solutions and may require research experimentation and iteration.

• You prefer having detailed to-do lists for every task. This role requires a self-starter who can identify problems and outline solutions proactively if you need very granular direction at all times it might not be the best fit.
  

We believe this role offers a unique chance to have a massive impact on how our engineers work every day. If youre excited about fostering a world-class developer experience building amazing tooling (and sprinkling in some AI magic) all while measuring your success and iterating quickly wed love to hear from you!

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 Wednesday and Thursday

• 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.