Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Shakepay, a company revolutionizing financial services in Canada by making Bitcoin accessible and easy to use. As an Engineering Manager, you will lead a team of passionate developers, building and improving our mobile and web applications. You will ensure engineers are productive and happy, while also contributing to the development of innovative features. This role requires strong leadership and technical skills, along with experience in high-growth environments. Shakepay offers a comprehensive benefits package, including stock options, health and dental coverage, remote work options, professional development budget, and generous vacation time with a bonus.

Requirements

• ~10 years in software engineering, with 5+ years in management or leadership roles
• Strong leadership and team-building skills, with experience in high-growth environments
• Excellent collaboration and communication abilities to align cross-functional teams
• Fluency in English

Responsibilities

• Ensure engineers are productive, happy, learning, and doing meaningful work
• Coordinate and direct projects, making detailed plans to accomplish technical and product goals
• Analyze technology, resource needs, and market demand, to plan and assess the feasibility of projects
• Interview and hire the best and brightest software engineers
• Mentor engineers and help cultivate their career aspirations
• Lead a foundational, multi-discipline team of engineers working on complex, full-stack projects with wide impact across the company
• Build or integrate frameworks promoting experimentation and safe release of new features into mobile and web applications
• Work with multiple teams across the company including product, design, legal and customer support
• Get your hands dirty: review code and spend some of your time coding with the team, contributing to their efforts
• Contribute your fair share of memes to our #dev-null slack channels

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Node.js, Typescript, React-Native, Postgres, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, Datadog
• Experience with building financial apps
• Bitcoin knowledge

Benefits

• Be an owner - Every employee has stock options as part of their total compensation
• Reach your goals - Yearly salary assessments
• Health & wellness : Access to comprehensive health and dental coverage, including health and wellness spending accounts
• Remote-friendly : Work from anywhere in Canada, with optional access to our office spaces in Montreal and Toronto
• Level Up : A $2,000 annual budget for courses, certifications, and training to support your career growth
• Time off : 20 days of vacation per year. And if you use all your vacation, we give you a $1,000 bonus
• Parental leave : Enjoy a parental leave top up to 100% of your salary for 18 weeks
• Have fun together: quarterly team-specific or company-wide offsite to connect with each other