Senior Engineering Manager, Platform

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Engineering Manager, Platform based in Canada.

This is a senior leadership opportunity to shape the infrastructure, reliability, and developer experience foundations behind a fast-growing financial technology platform. You will lead and develop a high-performing platform engineering team spanning Infrastructure, SRE, DevOps, and Developer Experience. The role combines people leadership with strong technical influence, requiring you to set direction while staying close enough to the systems to make meaningful architectural decisions. You will help balance rapid delivery with security, scalability, resilience, and operational excellence in a regulated environment. A key focus will be building AI-powered internal tools and agentic workflows that automate repetitive work and enhance engineering productivity. You will collaborate closely with engineering, security, compliance, and product teams across the organization. This is a remote-friendly role offering the opportunity to influence technology used by millions of customers across Canada.

• 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.