Engineering Manager

Diagram; Canada; Hybrid; CAD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading FinTech provider is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead their Billing Platform team. You will drive technical excellence and team growth, ensuring the delivery of scalable solutions that empower operational teams. The ideal candidate has strong technical leadership skills, a background in FinTech or banking, and proficiency in Go and PostgreSQL. This role offers competitive compensation, unlimited paid time off, and a diverse work environment.

Benefits

100% employer paid medical, dental, and vision benefits

Employer contribution to HSA

Annual HCSA for Canadian employees

401(k) and RRSP plans

Unlimited paid time off

Stock options program

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional experience as a Software Engineer.
• 3-5 years of experience in a technical leadership role.
• Background in the FinTech, finance, or banking industries.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of engineers.
• Drive technical strategy and architecture decisions.
• Ensure delivery of high-quality, scalable solutions.

Skills

Technical leadership

People management

Proficiency in Go

Expertise in PostgreSQL

RESTful API design

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Google Cloud Platform

Job description

What We’re Doing

At Synctera, we’re powering the future of FinTech. We help companies create new revenue streams and enhance their value proposition with FinTech apps and embedded banking products. With APIs, compliance support, and bank partners in one end-to-end Banking as a Service platform, Synctera is the fastest and easiest way to build, launch, and scale bank accounts, debit cards, charge cards, lending, and more. We help banks increase deposits and non-interest income by expanding their footprint through FinTech and embedded finance partnerships. The Synctera Platform enables banks to manage their program through a fully compliant, scalable solution.

We are looking for interesting, curious, wickedly smart people who are ready to jump in and run with our fast-growing team. If you want to have fun at work, collaborate with some of the sharpest people in the industry, grow the FinTech and Banking as a Service ecosystem, and love to win, read on!

What We’re Looking For

As an Engineering Manager on our Billing Platform team, you\'ll lead engineers building core capabilities that empower Operations and Finance teams to track billing, money movement, and revenue. You\'ll drive both technical excellence and team growth while ensuring your team delivers scalable solutions that help FinTechs, banks, and your fellow Syncterans efficiently navigate the Synctera platform by optimizing workflows and enhancing operational tools.

Our ideal candidate combines strong technical leadership with people management skills, taking initiative to look at the big picture and optimize for user experience across end-to-end workflows. This role shapes many of the most important interactions internal and external operational teams have with our user experience, so understanding the business context they operate within is critical for success.

Note: We welcome candidates who may have held equivalent titles such as Lead Engineer, Technical Lead Manager, or other technical leadership roles.

What You’ll Do

• Lead and mentor a team of engineers, guiding technical decisions, career development, and professional growth
• Partner with backend engineers, product managers, and cross-functional teams to deliver exceptional experiences across our financial systems and operations tooling
• Drive technical strategy and architecture decisions for revenue tracking, billing systems, and other core workflows within the Synctera Console
• Continuously identify opportunities to integrate AI into processes and codebases to improve efficiency, scalability, and customer value
• Support hiring and team-building efforts as the organization grows
• Balance hands-on technical contributions with people management responsibilities
• Ensure delivery of high-quality, scalable solutions while maintaining a healthy, happy team
• Collaborate closely with product management and cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions

What You’ll Bring

• 8+ years of professional experience as a Software Engineer
• 3-5 years of experience in a technical leadership role
• Background in the FinTech, finance, or banking industries, with significant experience in billing systems, revenue operations, or other complex financial workflows
• Strong proficiency in Go, with hands-on experience building and maintaining production systems
• Expertise in PostgreSQL with deep, hands-on experience designing, optimizing, and maintaining databases in production environments
• Experience designing and creating RESTful APIs, to be consumed by our frontend engineers and customers

Our Stack

Our platform is built in Go (for backend services) and React with Typescript (for the Synctera Console, our frontend). We\u2019re built on top of Google Cloud Platform and typically use Postgres (Cloud SQL, AlloyDB), Redis (Cloud Memorystore), and Pub/Sub as our core application stack, with OpenAPI specifications being used to both document our API and be the foundation for inter-service communication.

Our infrastructure is predominantly a mixture of Kubernetes (Google Kubernetes Engine) and Cloud Run (Google\u2019s serverless compute platform), with Terraform orchestrating infrastructure, and tools like Argo facilitating deployments.

Diversity & Inclusion

Synctera is committed to having a workforce that is reflective of the diversity within the United States and Canada. As an equal opportunity employer, we encourage applications from candidates from underrepresented communities, Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, persons of diverse sexual orientation and gender identity, and all those who can provide different perspectives and contribute to the diversification of Synctera.

Benefits

• 100% employer paid medical, dental, and vision benefits for US and Canadian employees and dependents
• Employer contribution to HSA for US employees
• Annual HCSA and generous extended health care coverage for Canadian employees and dependents
• 401(k) for US employees and RRSP for Canadian employees
• Mental health resources available for all employees
• Unlimited paid time off
• Generous paid new parent leave program
• Home office setup stipend
• Stock options program for all employees
• Growth potential and opportunity to have a significant impact at an early stage of our company\'s journey
• Working alongside a skilled and passionate team

The base salary for this full-time position (USD: $162,000 - $190,000, CAD: $140,000 - $180,000) is determined by role, level, and location. The range informed in this job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries across all US and Canadian locations. Within the range, individual pay will be determined by work location, job-related skills, experience, relevant training, and other factors.

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