Senior Engineering Manager

Credit Genie • Toronto, ON

18d • $215,000 - $275,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

As a Senior Software Engineering Manager for the backend team, you will lead a team of talented engineers responsible for building and maintaining systems that power our financial products. This is a hybrid technical leadership role: you'll set technical direction, stay hands-on, and grow the people on your team — not just manage delivery from a distance. You'll play a key role in shaping the technical direction of our foundational infrastructure and product architecture, with a clear path to greater scope as you and the team grow. This is a rare chance to join a fast-growing fintech startup where your work will have a direct and meaningful impact on both the company and the financial well-being of our users.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience managing engineering teams of 5 or more
• 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, with current, active coding involvement (roughly 20% of your time, or a clear desire to increase it)
• Experience building and operating distributed, high-throughput, and mission-critical systems, ideally in financial services
• Proven track record of leading teams to deliver complex projects
• Experience mentoring engineers into future leaders and growing talent
• Familiarity with incident management and on-call operations
• Comfortable working in fast-paced, iterative environments with a bias for action
• Solid understanding of security, data privacy, and regulatory compliance

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with mobile app ecosystems and lending or cash advance products
• Experience managing managers, or a clear track record of preparing for it

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction for the team — deciding what to build and how — in partnership with product managers and cross-functional leaders, aligning engineering efforts with business priorities.
• Lead system design review, giving substantive, critical feedback that shapes how the team's architecture evolves.
• Stay genuinely hands-on: write code regularly (not just review it), and step in to unblock the team or fill in for engineers when the situation calls for it, without hesitation.
• Oversee the architecture and delivery of scalable, high-performance backend services, ensuring technical solutions are reliable, maintainable, and aligned with long-term goals.
• Make thoughtful trade-offs between tech debt and feature delivery, maintaining system health while accelerating product impact.
• Run consistent 1:1s, give direct and meaningful feedback, and build clear career development plans for each direct report.
• Mentor and coach engineers to help them grow into stronger ICs and future leaders.
• Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and urgency on the team.
• Promote engineering best practices with a strong focus on reliability, observability, and code quality.
• Manage and continuously improve team processes — sprint planning, execution, and retrospectives — to drive effective collaboration and timely delivery.
• Own incident response for your team's systems, including on-call participation.

Benefits

• 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents on your first day of employment.
• Up to $100 per month in fitness reimbursement or a complimentary full membership to LifeTime Fitness or Equinox.
• 401(k) with a 3.5% match and immediate vesting
• Meal program available for both lunch and dinner
• Pre-tax benefits, including a $1,000 HSA match
• Life and accidental insurance
• Flexible PTO
• Bonus and equity programs
• Short & long term disability insurance

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed