Shakepay - Engineering Manager, Platform
Requirements
• 10+ years of experience in software engineering with 3+ years managing and growing high-performing teams • Strong technical background in platform, infrastructure, DevOps or SRE • Familiarity with technologies like Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, ArgoCD, Datadog, PostgreSQL, CI/CD tooling, and GitOps • Experience operating production systems and supporting on-call rotations • Ability to set technical direction across both developer experience and infrastructure • Strong collaboration and communication skills, with a focus on business impact • Experience in fintech or other regulated environments • Prior experience as a Staff or Senior Engineer before moving into management • Interest in Bitcoin and excitement to learn more
Responsibilities
• Lead, coach, and grow a team of platform engineers across Infrastructure, DevOps and Developer Experience. • Set technical direction for platform architecture and ensure roadmap execution • Balance short-term delivery with long-term investments in tooling, infrastructure, and reliability • Oversee cloud infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and operational tooling in a regulated environment • Improve developer productivity by reducing friction in onboarding, CI/CD, and local-to-prod workflows • Ensure systems are secure, scalable, observable, and resilient as Shakepay grows • Own incident management practices, postmortems, and sustainability of the on-call rotation • Collaborate closely with product engineering, security, and compliance stakeholders • Advocate for platform work by tying technical initiatives to business and customer impact
Benefits
• Help shape the future of money: Be part of a team that's revolutionizing financial services in Canada, one sat at a time. • Help shape the future of money: • Impact millions: As cryptocurrency continues to gain traction, our potential for growth is massive. You can help us bring Shakepay and Bitcoin to all Canadians. • Impact millions: • Grow your career: We’re growing, and so can you! We have programs in place to encourage continuous learning, growth, and development. • Grow your career: • Ideas, not titles: We want the best ideas to make their way through, no matter where they come from. • Ideas, not titles: • 🤝 Be an owner - Every employee has stock options as part of their total compensation. • Be an owner • 🥅 Reach your goals - Quarterly performance and salary assessments, we’re here to be proactive about compensation and reward our top-performers. • Reach your goals • 🦷 Health & wellness : Access to health and dental coverage, including health and wellness spending accounts. • 🦷 Health & wellness : • 🌎 Remote-friendly: Work from anywhere in Canada, with optional access to our office spaces in Montreal and Toronto. • 🌎 Remote-friendly • 🆙 Level Up: A $2,000 annual budget for courses, certifications, and training to support your career growth. • Level Up • 🌴 Time off: 20 days of vacation per year. And if you use all your vacation, we give you a $1,000 bonus. • 🌴 Time off • 🐣 Parental leave: Enjoy a parental leave top up to 100% of your salary for 18 weeks. • 🐣 Parental leave • 🙌 Have fun together: quarterly team-specific or company-wide offsite to connect with each other. • 🙌 Have fun together: • We understand that potential can be just as valuable as experience. If you're eager to learn, grow, and contribute to the mission but worry that you may not have the “right” experience, we still want you to apply. • We encourage applications from everyone, regardless of background and life experience. We’re firm believers that a little bit of slope makes up for a lot of y-intercept. • Fluency in English is required due to the percentage of English-speaking customers and the nature of our platform, which is available to all Canadians.
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