Full Stack Development

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 Role

This role sits on one of Floats product-focused engineering squads responsible for building end-to-end experiences used daily by thousands of Canadian businesses. Youll work across the stack to deliver intuitive reliable and scalable product features that directly impact customers financial workflows.

We are hiring across multiple levels for this role. Our interview process is designed to evaluate candidates objectively based on scope judgment and learning velocity and we will level accordingly. As Float continues to grow there are meaningful opportunities to expand ownership deepen technical impact and take on broader responsibility regardless of starting level.

This role is well-suited for developers who enjoy product thinking end-to-end ownership and balancing speed with quality in a high-autonomy environment.

What Youll Be Doing

• Build and evolve end-to-end product features across backend frontend and APIs.

• Partner closely with Product and Design to deliver simple intuitive user experiences.

• Translate customer needs into thoughtful technical solutions that scale.

• Make principled trade-offs between speed quality and long-term maintainability.

• Own features in production including iteration reliability and improvement over time.

• Contribute to shared standards tooling and practices that raise engineering quality.

• Work within a small empowered squad with clear ownership over a product vertical.

What Success Looks Like (612 Months)

• You ship meaningful product features that are used and valued by customers.

• Your work improves the clarity usability or reliability of core product flows.

• You take ownership of a meaningful slice of the product and execute with confidence.

• You collaborate effectively across Product Design and Engineering.

• Your judgment and execution raise the bar for your squad and peers.
  

What Were Looking For

• Experience building full stack product features in a modern web environment.

• Comfort working across backend frontend and APIs (depth may vary by individual).

• Strong product and customer intuition you care about what youre building and why.

• Ownership mindset for features in production.

• Curiosity adaptability and a desire to keep improving your craft.

• Bonus: experience with Python/Django TypeScript/React AWS or fintech products.
  

Our Hiring Philosophy

• Values > Aptitude > Skills

• Slope > Intercept

• Collective Bar Raising

We hire for character curiosity and learning velocity before credentials. Titles matter less than impact and growth is expected as scope and ownership increase.

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.