Engineering Manager, Relay
Risk Engineering
+ Equity
In office Tues-Thurs
3 days a week in office
Online business banking and money management
Be an early applicant
Online business banking and money management
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Equity
In office Tues-Thurs
3 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To help small businesses have greater financial clarity to build health, lasting businesses.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of relevant development experience in a start-up environment; 1+ year of which includes people-management experience
- You have a strong technical background with a proven track record of shipping high-quality products. Exposure to our tech stack (Node.js/Typescript/React/AWS is a plus)
- You are excited about building and scaling an engineering team while supporting them in doing their best work
- You have excellent communication skills and are able to calmly provide clarity in times of uncertainty or change – we are a startup after all!
- You’re a pragmatic decision maker – delivering product in a startup often requires tradeoffs in scope, technical debt, and tight timelines, and you’re comfortable making those calls
- You think deeply about the impact of engineering decisions on customers and the business, especially in areas where mistakes are costly or hard to reverse
- You have experience building or owning internal tools or platforms, and working closely with internal stakeholders to turn ambiguous problems into scalable, reliable systems
- You are an energetic and results-oriented person, committed to adding value to our business and inspire this same ethos with your team
- You're highly collaborative and know how to connect the dots between teams and manage cross-functional initiatives
Desirable
- You’ve joined a company at its early stages and have seen it through scale
- You have experience working in a fintech
What the job involves
- Relay is entering an exciting new chapter of growth. We’re looking for an Engineering Manager on our Risk Engineering team, as we continue scaling
- This is an opportunity to come in and build your team from the ground up and work on a greenfield product for Relay
- You'll make high-impact decisions daily and have direct influence on building a product loved by thousands of users
- Relay’s Risk Engineering team builds automated systems that detect, prevent, and reduce financial risk and fraud, while maintaining a frictionless experience for legitimate customers and minimizing manual intervention. Our goal is simple: enable Relay to grow safely, confidently, and without unnecessary friction
- Oversee the planning, execution, and delivery of risk-critical engineering initiatives, ensuring systems meet quality, reliability, and safety standards
- Ensure engineering processes and rituals support high-stakes systems, including thoughtful sprint planning, strong code reviews, and rigorous technical design reviews
- Collaborate with senior leadership to shape and execute the technical strategy for risk, fraud, and trust systems, balancing business growth, customer experience, and risk exposure
- Work closely with Product, Risk, Compliance, Operations, and other partners to turn ambiguous risk problems into clear, scalable engineering solutions
- Build, support, and grow a high-performing team of engineers by hiring strong talent, setting clear ownership, and coaching engineers through complex, high-impact work
- Foster a collaborative engineering culture that encourages feedback, learning, and growth. Organize knowledge-sharing sessions and support professional development opportunities for team members
Application process
- Stage 1: A 45-minute Google Meet video call with a member of the People Team
- Stage 2: A 60-minute Google Meet video call with the Hiring Team, our Senior Engineering Managers
- Stage 3: A 45-minute in person meeting with a member of our leadership team
- Stage 4: A take-home case study followed by a 60-minute Google Meet video call with our team
Our take
Traditional banking options can feel outdated and tedious, especially if this includes in-person visits and waiting in line. This has led to the rise of online banking - but lots of smaller companies have to navigate multiple complicated applications in order to manage this business banking.
This is what Relay aims to fix. It's no-fee, online banking and money management platform looks to tackle financial complexity for SMBs. The company's goal is to fully automate the finance function using banking that deeply integrates into back-office systems. And its software is designed to affordably increase financial clarity and security, reducing the time spent on administrative tasks.
Relay is focused on its long-term goals and plans to scale up distribution and grow in sales, marketing, customer support, operations, engineering and product. The company currently serves thousands of SMBs across the US with the goal to get 100,000 small businesses over the next few years.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
58% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
May 2024
$32.2m
SERIES B
May 2021
$15m
SERIES A
Total funding: $51.7m
Company benefits
- Competitive salary and meaningful equity: Relay employees are Relay owners, complete with equity and a competitive salary. Since 2023, 66%+ of employees have received salary increases, with multiple new team members joining just last year.
- Social connection: We believe in celebrating our wins with two annual company-wide get-togethers, quarterly team events, happy hours, and special events and networking opportunities with industry leaders.
- Personal and professional growth: Through ongoing feedback, mentorship, and coaching, work with peers and leaders who are invested in your growth and success. Even with more than half of our team joining in the last 12 months, almost 20% have received promotions in the last year alone.
- Parental leave with top-up: We offer 12 weeks off with a 100% salary top-up for all full-time employees, regardless of location, and accessible for all parents: birthing, non-birthing, and adoptive
- Comprehensive health benefits: Enjoy full health benefits from day one: no probation period required. We offer flexible Health or Wellness Spending Accounts and medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents.
- Hybrid work environment: We value meaningful collaboration and connection at our Toronto office three days per week, with lunch, snacks, and beverages on us.
- Top-tier equipment: As a Mac-first company, our Toronto offices have everything you need to produce your best work comfortably, from multiple screens to ergonomic seating.
- Flexible vacation and time off: Every team member starts with 15 vacation days and 5 flex days to use as needed, plus an extra week of office closure during the end-of-year holidays.
- Dog-friendly space: Can dogs really make you happy and healthy? We don’t know for sure, but since we don’t want to chance it, our office is 100% floof-friendly.
- Award-winning workplace: As a winner of CB Insights' Fintech 100, Deloitte Canada's Technology Fast 50, Forbes Fintech 50, and the CIX Top 10 Growth Award, Relay is a recognized innovative and high-growth company.
Company HQ
St. Lawrence, Toronto, ON
Leadership
Yoseph West
(Co-Founder & CEO)Yoseph has a range of experience including serving as the CEO at Vuru, Director of Product Engagement at Wave, and Head of Marketing at Hubdoc.
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