Backend Development

About Float

Float is on a mission to simplify finance for Canadian businesses empowering them to eliminate complexity and unlock new opportunities. Through our innovative platform Float enables businesses to streamline financial operations and optimize cash flow so they can focus on what matters most : growth.

As one of Canadas fastest growing companies and top-rated startups in 2024 and 2023 Float is customer-obsessed passionate and entrepreneurial with a team that includes leaders from Uber Shopify Top Hat TouchBistro and Ada.

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 and differing opinions so we can continue to improve. We do our best to keep our decision-making decentralized so that all team members feel ownership in our success.

Our Product

Float is Canadas complete business finance platform combining modern financial services and software to help businesses spend save and grow. Trusted by 5000 Canadian companies Float provides high-limit corporate cards automated expense management next-day bill payments high-yield accounts and fast friendly supportall built in Canada for Canada. Float is backed by world-class venture and fintech investors including Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives and OMERS Ventures partners behind our $70 million Series B raise .

Our team is a collection of ambitious collaborative and mission-driven people from all walks of life but with one goal : helping Canadian companies not just survive but thrive. And were looking for bold innovators to help shape the future of business finance in Canada.

AI Use in Our Hiring Process

We use technology including artificial intelligence (AI) to support parts of our hiring process. This may include AI-assisted scheduling and candidate communications and AI-generated interview notes guides or summaries to help our team focus on the conversation. All hiring decisions are made by our hiring team.

About the Role

This role sits within Floats Financial Products (FinProd) group where we design and operate backend systems that move money and manage financial state. These systems power core capabilities such as bill pay and other financial workflows where correctness reliability and trust are non-negotiable.

We are hiring across multiple levels for this role. Our interview process is designed to assess candidates objectively based on impact judgment and learning velocity and we will level accordingly. As Float continues to grow this team offers meaningful opportunities to take on increasing scope ownership and technical leadership over time.

This role is well-suited for developers who enjoy systems thinking complex domains and treating software development as a craft rather than just shipping CRUD.

What Youll Be Doing

Design and maintain backend systems that support money movement and financial workflows.

Model complex data and state transitions with a strong focus on correctness and invariants.

Build and evolve distributed systems including asynchronous workflows retries and failure handling.

Anticipate edge cases and scale challenges before they become production issues.

Apply disciplined testing and validation practices for high-blast-radius changes.

Partner with Product Frontend and Platform teams to deliver reliable customer outcomes.

Take ownership of systems in production including reliability and post-incident learning.

What Success Looks Like (612 Months)

You own or meaningfully contribute to critical backend domains with high reliability and trust.

Financial workflows you work on scale cleanly as usage grows.

You surface and address edge cases early reducing incidents and rework.

Teammates trust your judgment on complex system design and correctness.

Your work raises the quality bar for backend engineering at Float.

What Were Looking For

Experience building backend systems beyond basic CRUD patterns.

Comfort reasoning about data flow state transitions and distributed system trade-offs.

Solid database fundamentals including transactional integrity and performance at scale.

An ownership mindset for systems running in production.

Curiosity and adaptability language or framework experience matters less than how you think.

Bonus : exposure to financial systems ledgering payments or high-scale transactional platforms.

Our Hiring Philosophy

Values >

Aptitude >

Skills

Slope >

Intercept

Collective Bar Raising

We hire for character curiosity and learning velocity before credentials. Titles matter less than impact and every hire is expected to raise the bar for Float as a whole.

Why You Should Join

Work at one of Canadas fastest-growing fintech companies

Make a real impact in a high-autonomy high-growth role

Collaborate with an ambitious and supportive team

Competitive compensation equity options and benefits

Hybrid work model we are based in Toronto with in-office days for connection and collaboration

Enjoy catered team lunches every Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday

Bring your pup to our dog-friendly office

Thrive in a high-trust high-performance culture where your work truly matters

In Short

At Float youll thrive if youre bold curious and eager to make a real impact. Were building something specialand having a lot of fun along the way. If youre excited to build grow and win together wed love to meet you.

Were committed to building a workplace thats welcoming and accessible for everyone. If you need any accommodations during the hiring process or once you join Float just let us know! You can reach out to Vic ( ) and well work with you to make sure you have what you need to succeed.

Key Skills

Business Intelligence,Bidding,Accounts Assistant Credit Control,Account Development,Content Development,Lab Testing

Employment Type : Full-Time

Department / Functional Area : Engineering

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1