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.

AI Use in Our Hiring Process

We use technology including artificial intelligence (AI) to support parts of our hiring process. This may include AI-assisted scheduling and candidate communications and AI-generated interview notes guides or summaries to help our team focus on the conversation. All hiring decisions are made by our hiring team.

About the Role

Were hiring an Engineering Manager for Platform to lead Floats Infrastructure and Developer Experience (DevEx) teams. This group is responsible for the reliability scalability and usability of Floats engineering systems ensuring teams can ship safely efficiently and with confidence as we scale deeper into financial services.

This role sits at the intersection of infrastructure reliability and developer productivity. Youll unify infrastructure and DevEx into a cohesive platform function eliminate friction across engineering workflows and raise the bar on uptime and operational maturity.

This is a hands-on leadership role with an expected 50/50 split between technical contribution and people leadership.

Key Responsibilities

Platform Leadership & Strategy

• Lead and evolve a unified Platform organization spanning infrastructure SRE practices and developer experience.

• Define the platform vision roadmap and success metrics in partnership with Engineering leadership.

• Balance near-term reliability needs with long-term platform investments.

Reliability & Infrastructure Excellence

• Own platform reliability uptime and operational health as Float scales into banking-grade systems.

• Establish and mature SRE practices including monitoring alerting incident response and postmortems.

• Drive adoption of Infrastructure as Code and automation across the stack.

Developer Experience & Enablement

• Build internal tooling workflows and abstractions that reduce cognitive load and accelerate delivery.

• Identify and remove friction across CI/CD local development deployment and production workflows.

• Act as a strong advocate for engineers by deeply understanding how teams build and ship software.

Hands-On Technical Leadership (50%)

• Contribute directly to infrastructure automation and platform code.

• Review designs and PRs with a focus on reliability scalability and operability.

• Partner closely with Product and Application Engineering on platform needs.

People Leadership (50%)

• Coach and develop platform engineers across infra and DevEx disciplines.

• Build strong operating rhythms clarity and accountability.

• Foster a collaborative pragmatic culture grounded in ownership and continuous improvement.

Required Skills and Experience

• Experience leading infrastructure platform SRE or DevEx teams.

• Strong technical depth across cloud infrastructure (AWS) networking and distributed systems.

• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or similar).

• Experience designing and operating highly reliable production systems.

• Strong empathy for developer workflows and productivity challenges.

• Ability to contribute code and guide technical direction.

• Excellent communication skills and cross-functional collaboration experience.

• Experience operating in regulated reliability-sensitive or high-scale environments is preferred.

Youll Be Great in This Role If You:

• Enjoy building platforms that empower other engineers.

• Care deeply about reliability clarity and operational excellence.

• Balance pragmatism with long-term thinking.

• Are comfortable being hands-on while leading others.

• Prefer collaboration over control.

• View platform work as leverage not overhead.

This Role Wont Be a Fit If:

• You prefer dont touch it if it works.

• You strongly favor a single language or toolchain.

• You dislike operational ownership or incident response.

• You prefer feature work over foundational systems.

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.

Required Experience:

Manager