Hybrid Engineering Manager, Bill Pay

at Float

• Job title: Engineering Manager, Bill Pay
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Toronto, Canada

About the role

• Engineering Manager leading Bill Pay team at Float, a fintech startup simplifying finance for Canadian businesses. Owning customer-facing experiences in a strategically important product area.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Bill Pay engineering team across delivery, team operations, people management, and people development.
• Partner closely with Product to make credible quarterly commitments and deliver against them with strong operational rigor.
• Balance near-term product delivery with steady remediation of legacy technical debt and under-the-hood improvements in the existing bill pay foundation.
• Own observability, monitoring, and operational follow-through for the systems and experiences the team is responsible for.
• Raise team effectiveness through clarity, feedback, standards, and development, including healthy execution patterns and sustainable performance expectations.
• Act as a strong counterpart to stakeholders by pushing when necessary, communicating risk clearly, and knowing when to resolve independently versus escalate with context and options.

Requirements

• Engineering management experience in environments where delivery, people leadership, and cross-functional judgment all materially mattered.
• Technical credibility to lead engineers in a full stack domain with evolving system quality needs.
• Experience making and meeting team commitments across quarters, including managing risk, sequencing work, and improving team operations.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to push back constructively and escalate clearly when needed.
• Exposure to payments, money movement, or accounting-related workflows is helpful in this role.
• Practical curiosity about AI tools and evidence of using them in real workflows to improve leverage and outcomes.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation, equity options, and benefits
• Hybrid work model – we are based in Toronto with in-office days for connection and collaboration
• Enjoy catered team lunches every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
• Bring your pup to our dog-friendly office
• Thrive in a high-trust, high-performance culture where your work truly matters