Senior Engineering Manager, Platform

Accountabilities:

• • Lead, coach, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of platform engineers across Infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, and Developer Experience.
  • Establish technical direction for platform architecture, infrastructure, reliability, and developer tooling while ensuring successful execution of the engineering roadmap.
  • Balance immediate delivery needs with longer-term investments in infrastructure, automation, developer tooling, and operational reliability.
  • Oversee cloud infrastructure, deployment pipelines, CI/CD systems, operational tooling, and platform capabilities within a regulated environment.
  • Design and develop AI-powered internal tools and agentic workflows that automate repetitive tasks, support complex engineering activities, and improve productivity across teams.
  • Improve developer experience by reducing friction across onboarding, local development, CI/CD, deployment, and production workflows.
  • Ensure platform systems are secure, scalable, observable, resilient, and capable of supporting continued business growth.
  • Own incident-management practices, including on-call operations, postmortems, root-cause analysis, and improvements to the sustainability and effectiveness of reliability processes.
  • Partner with product engineering, security, compliance, and other technology stakeholders to align platform priorities with organizational and customer needs.
  • Communicate technical strategy and platform investments effectively, connecting engineering initiatives to measurable business and customer impact.
  • Challenge technical assumptions, evaluate trade-offs, and make pragmatic decisions across infrastructure, reliability, developer experience, and platform architecture.
  • Encourage a culture of ownership, collaboration, continuous improvement, rapid delivery, and high engineering standards.

  Requirements:

  • 10+ years of professional experience in platform engineering, infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, or closely related technical disciplines.
  • 3+ years of experience managing and developing high-performing engineering teams.
  • Strong technical understanding of modern platform and cloud technologies, with familiarity across Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, ArgoCD, Datadog, PostgreSQL, CI/CD tooling, and GitOps practices.
  • Demonstrated experience operating production systems and supporting on-call and incident-management processes.
  • Ability to establish technical direction across both infrastructure and developer experience while remaining hands-on when necessary.
  • Strong understanding of reliability, observability, scalability, security, automation, and production operations.
  • Experience working collaboratively with engineering leadership, product teams, security, compliance, and other cross-functional stakeholders.
  • Strong communication and influencing skills, with the ability to translate technical priorities into business outcomes.
  • Comfort using AI-powered development tools to accelerate software development, debugging, problem-solving, and technical learning.
  • Ability to operate effectively in an environment that values autonomy, rapid execution, experimentation, and continuous improvement.
  • Experience in fintech, financial services, or another regulated industry is an advantage.
  • Previous experience as a Staff Engineer, Senior Engineer, or equivalent technical leadership role before moving into management is a plus.
  • Genuine interest in Bitcoin, financial technology, or emerging technologies is beneficial.
  • Professional fluency in English is required due to the nature of the role and the customer base.

  Benefits:

  • Competitive compensation: Base salary range of CAD $230,000–$280,000, depending on experience, skills, and qualifications.
  • Equity: Stock options as part of the overall compensation package.
  • Health coverage: Comprehensive health and dental benefits, plus a dedicated mental-health support budget.
  • Remote flexibility: Work remotely from anywhere in Canada, with optional access to office spaces in Montreal and Toronto.
  • AI resources: Generous AI token budget, currently unlimited, to support modern engineering workflows.
  • Professional development: CAD $2,000 annual budget for courses, certifications, and training.
  • Paid vacation: 20 days of vacation annually, plus a CAD $1,000 bonus when all annual vacation days are used.
  • Parental leave: Up to 100% salary top-up for 18 weeks.
  • Performance growth: Opportunities for performance-based salary increases and continued career development.
  • Team connection: Quarterly team-specific or company-wide offsites.
  • Meaningful impact: Opportunity to help shape modern financial services and technology used by millions of customers across Canada.
  • Inclusive culture: An environment that values ideas, initiative, diverse backgrounds, continuous learning, and contribution over titles or conventional career paths.