Engineering Manager (Fintech)

TL;DR

Engineering Manager (Fintech): Building and scaling a team focused on automated systems for detecting, preventing, and reducing financial risk and fraud, while ensuring a seamless customer experience. Focus on shaping the technical strategy for risk, fraud, and trust systems, and fostering a collaborative engineering culture.

Location: Hybrid, collaboration in the Toronto office three days a week (Tues-Thurs)

Company

hirify.global is an all-in-one, collaborative money management platform focused on delivering a human-centric customer experience for employer SMBs and their finance function.

What you will do

• Oversee planning, execution, and delivery of risk-critical engineering initiatives, ensuring systems meet quality, reliability, and safety standards.
• Collaborate with senior leadership to shape and execute the technical strategy for risk, fraud, and trust systems, balancing business growth, customer experience, and risk exposure.
• Build, support, and grow a high-performing team of engineers by hiring strong talent, setting clear ownership, and coaching engineers through complex, high-impact work.
• Foster a collaborative engineering culture that encourages feedback, learning, and growth by organizing knowledge-sharing sessions and supporting professional development opportunities.

Requirements

• 5+ years of relevant development experience in a start-up environment; 1+ year of which includes people-management experience.
• Strong technical background with a proven track record of shipping high-quality products; Exposure to tech stack (Node.js/Typescript/React/AWS is a plus).
• Excellent communication skills and ability to calmly provide clarity in times of uncertainty or change.
• Pragmatic decision maker, comfortable with tradeoffs in scope, technical debt, and tight timelines.
• Experience building or owning internal tools or platforms, and working closely with internal stakeholders to turn ambiguous problems into scalable, reliable systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive salary and meaningful equity as a hirify.global owner.
• Comprehensive health benefits from day one, including flexible Health or Wellness Spending Accounts and medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Flexible vacation and time off: 15 vacation days and 5 flex days, plus an extra week of office closure during the end-of-year holidays.
• Hybrid work environment with meaningful collaboration and connection at the Toronto office twice a week, with provided lunch, snacks, and beverages.
• Dog-friendly office space.
• Personal and professional growth through ongoing feedback, mentorship, and coaching.

Hiring process

• Stage 1: A 45-minute Google Meet video call with a member of the People Team
• Stage 2: A 60-minute Google Meet video call with the Hiring Team, our Senior Engineering Managers
• Stage 3: A 45-minute in person meeting with a member of our leadership team
• Stage 4: A take-home case study followed by a 60-minute Google Meet video call with our team