Platform Engineer, Float
Developer Experience
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Corporate cards and smart spend management software
Open for applications
Corporate cards and smart spend management software
101-200 employees
Open for applications
+ Equity
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To simplify spending so companies and teams can focus on growing their business.
Role
Who you are
- You Put Customers First, Always. You care deeply about delivering meaningful value. Whether you're building internal systems or customer-facing features, you're always thinking about how to make life better for our users
- You Act Like an Owner. You take responsibility for outcomes, step up to challenges, and seek solutions proactively—doing what’s best for the business, not just your role
- You Think Big and Move Fast. You’re energized by building from 0 to 1. You’re not afraid to challenge the status quo, experiment quickly, and learn as you go
- You Constantly Learn and Grow. You’re hungry to improve your craft and open to feedback. You bring a growth mindset to everything you do
- You Raise the Bar. You care about doing things well and efficiently. You balance speed with rigor and always look for ways to improve how we work
- You Win as a Team. You’re a generous collaborator who values communication, context, and shared wins. You lift others up and help make the team stronger
- Deep Developer Empathy: You have been a developer yourself and instinctively understand developers’ pain points
- You actively listen to other engineers and empathize with their struggles, which helps you design better solutions that truly address their needs
- Strong Consensus-Building Skills: You’re experienced in talking to groups of engineers, collecting feedback, and getting buy-in for new tools or processes
- You excel at communicating technical ideas in approachable ways and can align teams around common best practices
- A Metrics-Driven Mindset: You focus on data and outcomes. You know how to measure your success through clear metrics (e.g. deployment time reduction, fewer build failures, higher Developer NPS) and use those insights to continually refine and prove the impact of your work
- Passion for Tooling and Developer Experience: You love building tools, automations, and delightful developer experiences
- You get satisfaction from optimizing workflows and seeing your fellow developers be more productive and happier because of what you built
- Senior-Level Experience: 5+ years of software development experience (or equivalent) in a fast-paced environment, with a track record of building internal tools or platforms that improved team productivity
- You’ve likely been a senior or lead engineer in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Full-Stack Development, and have shipped high-quality solutions at scale
- Technical Breadth and Agility: Familiarity with our tech stack (Python/Django, TypeScript/React, PostgreSQL, AWS) is a strong asset, but more importantly, you can quickly learn new languages and technologies
- You’re comfortable being language-agnostic and choosing the right tech to solve a given problem
- Mission-Driven and Self-Motivated: You are energized by Float’s vision and mission. You approach problems with curiosity, urgency, and a sense of purpose
- As a leader of our developer experience, you take ownership of your work and continually push yourself to master your craft and deliver value
- A Leadership Mindset (Even as an IC): You have demonstrated the ability to lead initiatives and influence others without necessarily being a people manager
- You mentor other developers in best practices, and you take pride in driving projects from idea to adoption across the team
- Customer (Developer) Advocacy: You believe your “customers” – the developers – come first
- You will advocate relentlessly for the engineering team’s needs and have a natural curiosity to dig into their feedback and problems to find the best solutions
- We believe this role offers a unique chance to have a massive impact on how our engineers work every day. If you’re excited about fostering a world-class developer experience, building amazing tooling (and sprinkling in some AI magic), all while measuring your success and iterating quickly – we’d love to hear from you!
- 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
- This might just be the best Developer Experience opportunity in Canada (if we do say so ourselves)
- We’re looking for an exceptional Senior Developer Experience Engineer to build simple, elegant, and highly intuitive internal tools that empower our engineering team
- In this role, you’ll focus on developer experience, developer tooling, and AI adoption – creating solutions that make our developers happier and more productive every day
- You will play a critical role in building internal platforms and workflows used daily by Float’s engineering organization
- Building and evolving a world-class internal developer platform: Design and implement tools, frameworks, and automation that streamline our development process
- You’ll create intuitive systems that make it easy for developers to build, test, and deploy code (our stack includes Python, Django, Postgres, AWS – but we value language-agnostic skills and choosing the best tool for the job)
- Improving developer workflows and tooling: Solve problems for your fellow engineers by understanding their needs and crafting both quick tactical fixes and strategic long-term solutions
- This could include developing self-service pipelines, one-click dev environments, CI/CD improvements, or internal dashboards to monitor build health and performance
- Championing AI-powered development: Help developers adopt and use AI tools effectively
- You’ll evaluate and integrate AI/ML solutions (e.g. code assistants, automated code review bots, AI-driven documentation search) into our engineering workflow to boost productivity and code quality
- You will also provide guidance and training so that the team can leverage these tools to the fullest
- Collecting feedback and fostering consensus: Work closely with engineers across all teams to gather input on pain points and ideas
- You might host developer roundtables, send out surveys, or have one-on-one chats to learn where our tooling can improve
- Using your deep developer empathy, you will ensure we build solutions that truly address the struggles developers face
- Defining and tracking success metrics: Use data to drive decision-making and measure impact
- You’ll define key developer experience metrics – for example, deployment frequency, build success rates, onboarding time, and Developer NPS (Net Promoter Score) – and track improvements over time
- You know how to quantify the value of tooling enhancements and communicate results, ensuring our team continuously benefits from your work
- Rapidly shipping improvements: You will have extreme ownership over the internal developer experience
- Working in a small, focused team (and collaborating with product, infra, and DevOps squads), you’ll be empowered to be decisive and move fast
- You’ll experiment, iterate, and quickly ship high-quality tooling updates and features that make our engineering workflow better week over week
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
$50.1m
SERIES B
Nov 2021
$26.5m
SERIES A
Total funding: $82m
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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