Engineering Manager, Bill Pay

ABOUT FLOAT Float is on a mission to simplify finance for Canadian businesses, empowering them to eliminate complexity and unlock new opportunities. Through our innovative platform, Float enables businesses to streamline financial operations and optimize cash flow, so they can focus on what matters most: growth. As one of Canada’s fastest growing companies https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/rob-magazine/top-growing-companies/article-ranking-canadas-top-growing-companies-of-2024/ and top-rated startups in 2025 https://www.linkedin.com/posts/floatfinancial_were-proud-to-share-that-float-has-been-activity-7387093684720300032-2DDz/, 2024 https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/linkedin-top-startups-2024-15-canadian-companies-rise-linkedin-news-llihe/ and 2023 https://lnkd.in/TSU23CA, Float is customer-obsessed, passionate and entrepreneurial, with a team that includes leaders from Uber, Stripe, Shopify, Top Hat, Ada, Doordash, Snowflake, and Wealthsimple. At Float, everyone is an owner, bringing their unique perspective to our team and product. Your voice is important, and we take having a culture based on feedback seriously. We openly share our thoughts and differing opinions so we can continue to improve. We do our best to keep our decision-making decentralized so that all team members feel ownership in our success. OUR PRODUCT Float is Canada's complete business finance platform, combining modern financial services and software to help businesses spend, save, and grow. Trusted by 6000+ Canadian companies, Float provides high-limit corporate cards, automated expense management, next-day bill payments, high-yield accounts and fast, friendly support—all built in Canada, for Canada. Float is backed by world-class venture and fintech investors, including Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives and OMERS Ventures, partners behind our $70 million Series B raise https://floatfinancial.com/we-raised-70-million-to-fix-canadas-business-banking-problem/. Our team is a collection of ambitious, collaborative and mission-driven people from all walks of life but with one goal: helping Canadian companies not just survive but thrive. And we’re looking for bold innovators to help shape the future of business finance in Canada. AI USE IN OUR HIRING PROCESS We use technology, including artificial intelligence (AI), to support parts of our hiring process. This may include AI-assisted scheduling and candidate communications, and AI-generated interview notes, guides or summaries to help our team focus on the conversation. All hiring decisions are made by our hiring team. ABOUT THE ROLE We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our Bill Pay team at Float. This is a newly separated team within our payments experience domain, with ownership centered on the customer-facing experience of bill pay / accounts payable and adjacent payments related user experiences. The underlying payment rails remain owned elsewhere; this team owns what the customer touches and experiences. You’ll join at an important moment. The team already has three engineers today and is expected to grow, with a strong product counterpart who brings deep accounts payable expertise. This role is about leading the team to deliver consistently, improve how it operates, and steadily strengthen a high visibility product area that is strategically important. WHAT YOU’LL DO - 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 execu