Engineering Manager, Platform (Infrastructure 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

Canada’s 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, Bill, Stripe, 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 Canada's 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 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.

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

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.

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, re