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, 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.
About the Role
We’re hiring an Engineering Manager for Platform to lead Float’s Infrastructure and Developer Experience teams.
This role exists to remove friction for engineers, deliver banking-grade reliability, and build internal platforms that allow product teams to ship safely and quickly.
This is a hands-on leadership role, with an expected 50/50 split between technical work and people leadership.
What You’ll Be Responsible For
Unify Infrastructure and Developer Experience into a single cohesive Platform team.
Own reliability, uptime, and platform maturity across Float.
Build and evolve internal developer tooling and workflows.
Lead SRE-style reliability practices and incident response.
Partner with Engineering to understand and eliminate developer friction.
Contribute directly to infrastructure and platform code.
About You
You’ll thrive at Float if you:
Put customers first, especially when trust and money are involved.
Act like an owner and take responsibility for outcomes.
Stay calm and decisive under pressure.
Balance speed with correctness.
Lead with clarity, humility, and technical credibility.
You bring:
Experience across infrastructure and developer tooling (not one or the other).
Strong cloud experience (AWS).
Infrastructure as Code expertise.
Deep empathy for developer workflows.
Experience running reliable systems in regulated or high-availability environments.
Comfort contributing code and reviewing complex PRs.
This may not be the role for you if…
You prefer “don’t touch it if it works.”
You strongly favour one language or toolchain.
You dislike collaborating across teams.
Why You Should Join
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
In Short
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 (victoria@floatcard.com), and we’ll work with you to make sure you have what you need to succeed.
