Engineering Manager

Talentlab; Remote; CAD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial technology company is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a senior engineering team focused on financial infrastructure. This remote role involves a combination of hands-on technical contributions and leadership responsibilities. Ideal candidates are deeply experienced engineers well-versed in distributed systems and backend engineering. You will oversee systems managing customer funds while ensuring operational excellence and correctness. Excellent communication and decision-making skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Deeply senior engineer and hands-on leader.
• Experience with financial infrastructure is a plus.
• Ability to manage and mentor senior engineers.

Responsibilities

• Manage, mentor, and support a group of experienced engineers.
• Contribute 60% hands-on and 40% on leadership.
• Ensure correctness, reliability, and safety in systems.

Skills

Strong experience with distributed systems

Deep backend engineering fundamentals

Proficiency in Python

Experience with high-reliability systems

Understanding of ACID and transactional boundaries

Job description

Engineering Manager, Financial Infrastructure

Location: Remote (Canada)
Reports to: Director of Engineering

We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a correctness‑critical engineering function focused on money movement, ledgering, reconciliation, and core financial infrastructure. This role blends hands‑on technical contribution with leadership of a highly senior engineering team. Precision, judgment, and calm decision‑making are essential.

What You’ll Do

Lead & Develop a Senior Team

• Manage, mentor, and support a group of deeply experienced senior engineers.
• Contribute ~60% hands‑on (design, code, architecture) and ~40% on people leadership.
• Partner with Product to shape a roadmap that balances commercial, operational, and technical requirements.

Own High‑Stakes Financial Infrastructure

• Oversee systems for money movement, ledgers, reconciliation, and banking integrations.
• Ensure correctness, reliability, and safety in systems handling customer funds.
• Maintain strong operational practices: monitoring, alerting, runbooks, and incident response.

Drive Technical Excellence

• Contribute directly to backend and distributed systems codebases.
• Review designs, unblock complex technical issues, and drive high‑quality architecture.
• Uphold correctness‑first design, data integrity, and risk‑aware decision‑making.

Requirements

You are a deeply senior engineer and hands‑on leader with:

Technical Expertise

• Strong experience with distributed systems (concurrency, ordering, idempotency, state transitions).
• Deep backend engineering fundamentals; proficiency in a modern language (Python is a plus).
• Experience with high‑reliability or correctness‑critical systems, ideally involving transaction flows or data integrity.
• (Preferred) Exposure to financial infrastructure: ACH, payouts, FX, banking rails, ledgering, and reconciliation.
• Understanding of ACID, transactional boundaries, schema evolution, and consistency models.

Leadership Strengths

• Ability to earn trust and influence very senior ICs.
• Calm, clear decision‑making under pressure (including high‑severity incidents).
• Concise communication around risk, trade‑offs, and architectural reasoning.
• Comfort operating in complex, constraint‑heavy environments (commercial, regulatory, operational).

You can apply directly to [e-mail] or on our website at www.talentlab.com. We want to thank all applicants for their interest, but only those in consideration will be contacted