Senior Engineering Manager, Platform
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Overview
Join Shakepay as a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a platform engineering team focused on Infrastructure, SRE, and DevOps. Drive technical direction and enhance productivity while shaping the future of financial services in Canada. At Shakepay, we’re on a mission to usher in the bitcoin golden age. We’re reimagining financial services to give every Canadian their fair shake. Our culture is built around doing work that matters, winning as a team, and celebrating success. If you're the kind of person who values growth, shipping fast, and sharing your ideas openly with a group of like-minded people, come and build with us! About Shakepay Since 2015, we've been on a mission to help Canadians build long-term wealth through bitcoin. Over the past few years, we've expanded beyond buying and selling bitcoin to offer a growing suite of everyday financial products - including the Shakepay Card, direct deposit, bill payments and Interac e-Transfer - making it easier to earn, save and use bitcoin every day. Today, more than 1.5 million Canadians use Shakepay to grow their bitcoin savings and take control of their financial future as we continue to push the boundaries of what modern financial services can look like. We’re regulated as an investment dealer across all Canadian provinces and territories, and backed by renowned venture capitalists with a funding of $44M. We have a passionate, loyal, and growing community, and we’re looking for people who want to help us build something truly special.
What you'll do
- •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.
Conditions
- •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.
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.