Director of Software Engineering - Financial Products

About Float

Float is one of Canada’s fastest growing companies and Top Startups (2024 & 2023), serving Canadian businesses with our innovative smart corporate card, bill pay, and spend management solution. Float’s team is customer-obsessed, passionate, vibrant, and entrepreneurial, and includes executives from Uber, Shopify, Top Hat, Ritual, Ada, and many other incredible tech companies!

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, feedback, and differing opinions so we can continue to improve. We do our best to keep our decision making decentralized so that all team members contribute.

Our product

Float is Canada’s first modern financial institution built to help Canadian businesses grow. We’re making finance more accessible and saving businesses time and money, while empowering them with capital and disrupting the multi-trillion dollar global B2B finance industry. Backed by some of the best venture capital investors in the world, including Tiger Global, Golden Ventures, and Susa Ventures, we’re looking for pioneers to help us achieve our vision.

About the Director of Software Engineering role

As the Director of Software Engineering - Financial Products, at Float, you will be responsible for leading and scaling our Financial Products Engineering group. You’ll shape the technical strategy and contribute to the overall product roadmap, working cross-functionally with teams in engineering, design, product, marketing, risk, and partnerships. This role requires you to grow a high-performing team, foster innovation, and deliver top-tier financial products that meet our customers' needs

In this role you will:

• Lead the strategic direction of the Financial Products engineering team, leveraging our team with expertise in the technical and commercial aspects of the financial products domain
• Recruit and develop top talent to scale the engineering group to deliver best in class products now and in the future
• Shape technical roadmaps and product vision by collaborating closely with leadership across engineering, product, design, marketing, risk, and commercial teams.
• Oversee technical decision-making to ensure the scalability, performance, and security of our financial products.
• Drive innovation and continuous improvement, delivering high-quality, reliable software on time and within budget.
• Establish and implement best practices in engineering processes and development methodologies.

You’ll be great in this role if:

• You’ve got the experience. You’ve led and scaled engineering teams for 8+ years, preferably in the fintech space. Experience with SaaS and financial products is a significant advantage.. You’ve built out a function at an early-stage startup and are excited to do it all again.
• You are an excellent cross-functional communicator. You effortlessly connect with any team in an org, especially Product, Risk, Compliance, and Software Engineering. You possess astute influencing skills, and you have the ability to bring multiple stakeholders together and problem-solve between various groups. You are a skilled listener who is able to understand and synthesize diverse perspectives and opinions. 
• You are motivated by being a leader. You’ve led a team before, and you're excited to continue to provide guidance and mentorship. You set a high bar for yourself and others, and enjoy fostering a culture of excellence and tenacity.
• You’re a strategic thinker. You can create a vision, and you know how to execute it. You prioritize following a data-driven metrics approach. You can establish what needs to be done today vs what will be done tomorrow (getting into the weeds and focusing on taking small steps day to day).
• You’re results-oriented. You set goals, and have a reputation for smashing them.  You also have a one team mentality, working with key partners in the business to help Float as a company win vs just your direct team. You are ready to roll-up your sleeves to get building and create immediate impact. 
• You’re an owner. You take complete ownership and accountability of delivery and outcomes. You translate business requirements into technical specifications, overseeing the development process, and ensuring successful deployment. You are ready and willing to make tough decisions to achieve broader business goals and outcomes.  
• You’ve got an understanding of the market. You’ve worked with accounting/finance related products, or have worked closely with finance leaders. You’re commercially focused with an understanding of the market and the business we’re in. You’re no stranger to an ROI mindset.

This role won’t be a fit if:

• You're not driven by the vision of building Canada's top business finance platform 
• You prefer predictable routines over the dynamic, independent nature of startup culture
• You aren't comfortable working independently, remotely, or asynchronously
• You aren’t a team player
• Resilience and openness to direct feedback aren't your strengths
• You aren’t comfortable taking calculated risks
• You have an ego
• You like to play politics

Don’t meet every single requirement?  If you’re excited about this role, and you strongly align with our values but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be the right candidate for this, or other future positions.

and Perks of working at Float:

• Competitive compensation & total rewards
• Flexible work hours and time off‍ when you need to recharge
• Small team = lots of autonomy to make an outsized impact
• Opportunity to work with and learn from a world-class team
• A Float card with a personal stipend to spend on what matters most to you
• A dog-friendly office
• Being able to say you helped build Canada's best Canada's top business finance platform