Staff Engineer (Platform)
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💻 Engineering⏰ Full-time🎯 Lead / Principal💰 $175k-250k🇺🇸 Boston, USA
11h ago
Float·3 months ago
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 Canada’s fastest growing companies and top-rated startups in 2025, 2024 and 2023, Float is customer-obsessed, passionate and entrepreneurial, with a team that includes leaders from Uber, Stripe, Shopify, Top Hat, Ada, Doordash, Snowflake, and Wealthsimple.
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.
Float is Canada’s intelligent financial operating system, combining modern financial services and software to help businesses spend, save, and grow. Trusted by more than 7,500 Canadian companies, Float provides high-limit corporate cards, automated expense management, next-day bill payments, high-yield accounts, and industry-leading support, all built in Canada, for Canada. Float recently announced our $85 million Series C, and is backed by world-class investors, including Inovia Capital, Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, OMERS Ventures, and Silicon Valley Bank.
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 we’re looking for bold innovators to help shape the future of business finance in Canada.
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.
We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our Bill Pay team at Float. This is a newly separated team within our payments experience domain, with ownership centered on the customer-facing experience of bill pay / accounts payable and adjacent payments related user experiences. The underlying payment rails remain owned elsewhere; this team owns what the customer touches and experiences.
You’ll join at an important moment. The team already has three engineers today and is expected to grow, with a strong product counterpart who brings deep accounts payable expertise. This role is about leading the team to deliver consistently, improve how it operates, and steadily strengthen a high visibility product area that is strategically important.
Lead the Bill Pay engineering team across delivery, team operations, people management, and people development.
Partner closely with Product to make credible quarterly commitments and deliver against them with strong operational rigor.
Balance near-term product delivery with steady remediation of legacy technical debt and under-the-hood improvements in the existing bill pay foundation.
Own observability, monitoring, and operational follow-through for the systems and experiences the team is responsible for.
Raise team effectiveness through clarity, feedback, standards, and development, including healthy execution patterns and sustainable performance expectations.
Act as a strong counterpart to stakeholders by pushing when necessary, communicating risk clearly, and knowing when to resolve independently versus escalate with context and options.
You Put Customers First, Always. You care deeply about delivering meaningful value. Whether you're building internal systems or customer-facing features, you're 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 proactively—doing what’s best for the business, not just your role.
You Think Big and Move Fast. You’re energized by building from 0 to 1. You’re not afraid to challenge the status quo, experiment quickly, and learn as you go.
You Constantly Learn and Grow. You’re 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. You’re a generous collaborator who values communication, context, and shared wins. You lift others up and help make the team stronger.
You’re likely a strong fit for this role if you’re energized by leading a small but meaningful team in a product area where customer experience, operational quality, and business impact are tightly connected. You know how to run a team, not just contribute technically. You can work through ambiguity, partner strongly with Product, and make practical trade-offs in a domain where execution quality matters. This role will particularly reward someone who can combine technical credibility, delivery discipline, and mature stakeholder judgment.
Engineering management experience in environments where delivery, people leadership, and cross-functional judgment all materially mattered.
Technical credibility to lead engineers in a full stack domain with evolving system quality needs.
Experience making and meeting team commitments across quarters, including managing risk, sequencing work, and improving team operations.
Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to push back constructively and escalate clearly when needed.
Exposure to payments, money movement, or accounting-related workflows is helpful in this role.
Practical curiosity about AI tools and evidence of using them in real workflows to improve leverage and outcomes.
* We are open to both Hybrid and Remote candidates for this role.
Work at one of Canada's 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
At Float, you’ll thrive if you’re bold, curious, and eager to make a real impact. We're building something special—and having a lot of fun along the way. If you’re excited to build, grow, and win together, we’d love to meet you.
We’re committed to building a workplace that’s 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 ([email protected]), and we’ll work with you to make sure you have what you need to succeed.