Engineering Manager

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 peter.mills@talentlab.com  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