Senior Engineering Manager, Platform

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

Design and build AI-powered internal tools and agentic workflows that automate tasks and augment engineering productivity

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

10+ years of experience in platform, infrastructure, DevOps or SRE roles

3+ years managing and growing high-performing teams

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

Comfort using AI tools in your day-to-day workflow to accelerate development, debugging, and learning

Bonus points

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

Help shape the future of money: Be part of a team that's revolutionizing financial services in Canada, one sat at a time.

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.

Grow your career: We’re growing, and so can you! We have programs in place to encourage continuous learning, growth, and development.

Ideas, not titles: We want the best ideas to make their way through, no matter where they come from.

🤖 Generous AI token budget (currently unlimited)

🤝 Stock options as part of their total compensation

🦷 Full health and dental benefits, including a separate budget to take care of your mental health

🌎 Remote-friendly: Work from anywhere in Canada, with optional access to our office spaces in Montreal and Toronto.

🆙 A $2,000 annual budget for courses, certifications, and training to support your career growth.

🌴 20 days of vacation per year. And if you use all your vacation, we give you a $1,000 bonus.

🐣 Parental leave top up to 100% of your salary for 18 weeks.

🙌 Quarterly team-specific or company-wide offsite to connect with each other

T he base salary range for this position is $230,000 - 280,000 CAD. Base pay may vary based on factors such as years of experience, skills and qualifications. Additionally, employees are eligible for equity, pay increases based on performance, benefits including health and dental care, and paid time off.

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.

We use technology, including artificial intelligence (AI), to support certain parts of our hiring process. This can include tools that assist with scheduling, application review, candidate communications, and generating interview notes, guides, or summaries so our team can stay focused on the conversation. All hiring decisions are made by our hiring team.