Engineering Manager, Float
Platform (Infrastructure & Developer Experience)
3 days a week in office
Corporate cards and smart spend management software
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Corporate cards and smart spend management software
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
3 days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
To simplify spending so companies and teams can focus on growing their business.
Role
Who you are
- Experience leading infrastructure, platform, SRE, or DevEx teams
- Strong technical depth across cloud infrastructure (AWS), networking, and distributed systems
- Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or similar)
- Experience designing and operating highly reliable production systems
- Strong empathy for developer workflows and productivity challenges
- Ability to contribute code and guide technical direction
- Excellent communication skills and cross-functional collaboration experience
- Experience operating in regulated, reliability-sensitive, or high-scale environments is preferred
- You’ll Be Great in This Role If You:
- Enjoy building platforms that empower other engineers
- Care deeply about reliability, clarity, and operational excellence
- Balance pragmatism with long-term thinking
- Are comfortable being hands-on while leading others
- Prefer collaboration over control
- View platform work as leverage, not overhead
- 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
What the job involves
- We’re hiring an Engineering Manager for Platform to lead Float’s Infrastructure and Developer Experience (DevEx) teams
- This group is responsible for the reliability, scalability, and usability of Float’s engineering systems, ensuring teams can ship safely, efficiently, and with confidence as we scale deeper into financial services
- This role sits at the intersection of infrastructure, reliability, and developer productivity
- You’ll unify infrastructure and DevEx into a cohesive platform function, eliminate friction across engineering workflows, and raise the bar on uptime and operational maturity
- This is a hands-on leadership role, with an expected 50/50 split between technical contribution and people leadership
- Platform Leadership & Strategy:
- Lead and evolve a unified Platform organization spanning infrastructure, SRE practices, and developer experience
- Define the platform vision, roadmap, and success metrics in partnership with Engineering leadership
- Balance near-term reliability needs with long-term platform investments
- Reliability & Infrastructure Excellence
- Own platform reliability, uptime, and operational health as Float scales into banking-grade systems
- Establish and mature SRE practices including monitoring, alerting, incident response, and postmortems
- Drive adoption of Infrastructure as Code and automation across the stack
- Developer Experience & Enablement
- Build internal tooling, workflows, and abstractions that reduce cognitive load and accelerate delivery
- Identify and remove friction across CI/CD, local development, deployment, and production workflows
- Act as a strong advocate for engineers by deeply understanding how teams build and ship software
- Hands-On Technical Leadership (50%):
- Contribute directly to infrastructure, automation, and platform code
- Review designs and PRs with a focus on reliability, scalability, and operability
- Partner closely with Product and Application Engineering on platform needs
- People Leadership (50%):
- Coach and develop platform engineers across infra and DevEx disciplines
- Build strong operating rhythms, clarity, and accountability
- Foster a collaborative, pragmatic culture grounded in ownership and continuous improvement
Our take
Traditional finance and internal expense processes are inefficient for companies. Spending on personal credit cards and filing receipts for reimbursement is a convoluted and complicated business practise. There needs to be a digital alternative to the historically laborious process of managing employee expenses.
Float is a fintech solution, built to simplify the inefficient internal expense processes. Rather than following the traditional method of spending on personal/corporate cards, filing expenses, and waiting for reimbursement - Float works by utilising technology that enables managers to allocate funds and approve expenses before purchases are made. The company also supports companies operating with remote workforces.
As the business world moves to become more international, companies will look to make their business spending as simple as possible. Float aims to develop its technology and cater to the challenge of company spending. It's $50 million C in credit financing will go some way to achieving its aims, all whilst expanding its business significantly.
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Insights
55% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jan 2025
$50.9m
SERIES B
Nov 2021
$26.9m
SERIES A
Total funding: $83.3m
Company benefits
- Competitive coverage of medical, dental and vision insurance for employees
- Education & learning stipend for personal growth and development
- Flexible vacation time
- Work from home stipend to help you succeed in a remote environment
Company HQ
Fashion District, Toronto, ON
Leadership
Rob Khazzam
(Co-founder & CEO)Previously worked at Uber for 5 years in international expansion and General Management in Eastern Europe and Canada. Prior to this they worked at a market private equity fund in Toronto.
Griffin Keglevich
(Co-founder)Previous Chief Engineer at Float, responsible for shipping and payments, previously worked in software engineering at KPMG and Shopify.
Ruslan Nikolaev
(Co-founder)Previous experience at WATonomous and then Uber as a Perception Engineer and at Shopify as a Data Scientist.
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