Staff Backend Developer
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💻 Engineering⏰ Full-time🎯 Lead / Principal💰 $104k-130k🇨🇦 Canada
23h ago
Float·about 1 month 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, BILL, 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 complete business finance platform, combining modern financial services and software to help businesses spend, save, and grow. Trusted by 6000+ Canadian companies, Float provides high-limit corporate cards, automated expense management, next-day bill payments, high-yield accounts and fast, friendly support—all 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 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 hiring an Engineering Manager for Platform to lead Float’s Infrastructure and Developer Experience (DevEx) teams. This group is responsible for the reliability, scalability, and usability of Float’s 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. You’ll 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
You prefer “don’t 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.
* 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.