Engineering Manager, Platform
Shakepay is a Canadian financial services company that lets Canadians buy, sell, send, and hold bitcoin and ethereum. It also offers bitcoin rewards, direct deposit, cashback, and wallet transfers.
Maintainer signals as of 8/14/2026
Funding history
About Shakepay
Shakepay provides a Canadian crypto platform for buying and selling bitcoin and ethereum, sending money, and moving bitcoin to private wallets or cash to banks. Its offerings include recurring bitcoin buys, bitcoin rewards for shaking and shopping, direct deposit, referrals, business services, and private-client services. The company states that it is a CIRO member, registered as an Investment Dealer across Canadian provinces and territories, and licensed by FINTRAC as a Money Service Business.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will lead, coach, and grow a team of platform engineers focused on infrastructure, DevOps, and developer experience. You will set technical direction for platform architecture, oversee cloud infrastructure and deployment pipelines, and balance short-term delivery with long-term investments in tooling and reliability. You will own incident management and on-call sustainability, improve onboarding and CI/CD workflows, and collaborate closely with product engineering, security, and compliance to tie platform initiatives to business impact.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering with 3+ years managing and growing teams
- Strong technical background in platform, infrastructure, DevOps, or SRE
- Familiarity with Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, ArgoCD, Datadog, PostgreSQL, CI/CD tooling, and GitOps
- Experience operating production systems and supporting on-call rotations
- Ability to set technical direction across developer experience and infrastructure
- Strong collaboration and communication skills with focus on business impact
Responsibilities
- Lead, coach, and grow a team of platform engineers across infrastructure, DevOps, and developer experience
- Set technical direction for platform architecture and execute the roadmap
- Balance short-term delivery with long-term investments in tooling, infrastructure, and reliability
- Oversee cloud infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and operational tooling in a regulated environment
- Improve developer productivity by reducing friction in onboarding, CI/CD, and local-to-prod workflows
- Ensure systems are secure, scalable, observable, and resilient
- Own incident management practices, postmortems, and sustainability of the on-call rotation
- Collaborate closely with product engineering, security, and compliance stakeholders
- Advocate for platform initiatives by tying technical work to business and customer impact
Benefits
- Stock options as part of total compensation
- Quarterly performance and salary assessments
- Health and dental coverage including health and wellness spending accounts
- Remote-friendly work from anywhere in Canada with optional office access in Montreal and Toronto
- $2,000 annual budget for courses, certifications, and training
- 20 days of vacation per year and a $1,000 bonus if all vacation is used
- Parental leave top up to 100% of salary for 18 weeks
- Quarterly team-specific or company-wide offsites