Engineering Manager, Float
Financial Infrastructure & Banking
Offers equity
3 days a week in office
Corporate cards and smart spend management software
Be an early applicant
Corporate cards and smart spend management software
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
Offers equity
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
- You’ll thrive at Float if you:
- Put customers first, especially when trust and money are involved
- Act like an owner and take responsibility for outcomes
- Stay calm and decisive under pressure
- Balance speed with correctness
- Lead with clarity, humility, and technical credibility
- In addition, you bring:
- 12–20+ years of engineering experience, including senior technical leadership
- Deep experience with distributed systems and correctness-critical workflows
- Experience with payments, banking, ledgering, or financial infrastructure (preferred)
- Strong backend engineering skills (Python a plus)
- Comfort pushing code in systems that move real money
- Experience leading senior engineers in high-trust environments
- Startup or growth-stage experience
- 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 Financial Infrastructure & Banking to lead one of Float’s most correctness-critical engineering domains
- This team owns systems that move money, manage banking integrations, maintain ledger correctness, and ensure Float can safely scale financial operations
- The blast radius is high — mistakes here directly impact customer trust, funds, and regulatory posture — which is why this role requires exceptional technical judgment and seniority
- This is a player-coach role. You’ll spend roughly 60% of your time hands-on in the codebase and systems, and 40% leading and developing engineers, partnering closely with Product and Risk
- If you’re energized by high-stakes systems, deep technical ownership, and leading senior engineers in complex environments — this role is for you
- Lead Correctness-Critical Financial Systems
- Own systems related to money movement, banking rails, ledgering, reconciliation, and financial operations
- Ensure correctness, reliability, and safety across all financial workflows
- Make sound architectural and delivery decisions under regulatory and commercial constraints
- Hands-On Technical Leadership (60%)
- Contribute directly to backend and infrastructure code
- Review designs and PRs for correctness, reliability, and scalability
- Debug complex production issues and lead incident response when required
- People Leadership & Team Health (40%)
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of senior engineers
- Build trust quickly with highly experienced ICs
- Establish strong operating rhythms, clarity, and accountability
- Roadmap & Cross-Functional Partnership
- Partner with Product to run dual-track roadmaps (commercial commitments + technical foundations)
- Work closely with Risk, Compliance, and Platform teams
- Communicate risk and trade-offs clearly to stakeholders
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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