Engineering Manager, Float
Product Platform & Accounting APIs
Offers equity
1-3 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
Offers equity
1-3 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
- Strong backend and systems engineering background
- Experience building APIs, platforms, or integration-heavy systems
- Comfort working across varied third-party APIs and data models
- Proven ability to operate in ambiguous, enablement-focused problem spaces
- Experience contributing code while leading teams
- Strong communication skills, especially around indirect impact
- Experience with accounting, payments, or financial integrations is a plus but not required
- Experience with developer platforms, SDKs, or ecosystem products is a strong plus
- You’ll Be Great in This Role If You:
- Enjoy building leverage and enabling others
- Are adaptable and learn new domains quickly
- Can explain complex systems simply
- Thrive in roles where success is measured by others’ velocity
- Balance execution with long-term platform thinking
- 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 Product Platform & APIs to lead teams building the foundational systems that power Float’s product ecosystem and integrations
- This role is responsible for internal platforms, external APIs, and accounting integrations that enable product teams — and third-party developers — to build on Float safely and at scale
- The work here often has indirect but outsized impact, requiring strong systems thinking, excellent communication, and comfort operating in ambiguity
- This is a player-coach role, with an expected ~60% hands-on technical contribution
- Platform & API Leadership:
- Own the roadmap and execution for Product Platform and API capabilities
- Build systems that enable product teams to ship faster with fewer dependencies
- Anticipate engineering needs and translate them into scalable platform solutions
- Integrations & Ecosystem
- Lead development and maintenance of accounting integrations (e.g., QuickBooks, Xero, NetSuite)
- Design reliable, scalable integration patterns across disparate third-party APIs
- Partner with Product to evolve Float’s API strategy and long-term ecosystem vision
- Hands-On Technical Leadership (60%):
- Contribute directly to backend, platform, and integration code
- Review designs and PRs with a focus on correctness, scalability, and maintainability
- Troubleshoot complex integration and operational issues
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Partner closely with Product, Platform, and Customer teams
- Communicate clearly in a domain where impact is often indirect and non-obvious
- Help teams understand why platform work matters to the business
- People Leadership (40%):
- Lead and develop engineers working across platform and integration domains
- Build clarity around ownership, priorities, and delivery expectations
- Foster a culture of adaptability, accountability, and technical excellence
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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