Senior 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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About the Role
You will lead, coach, and grow a team of platform engineers across infrastructure, DevOps, and developer experience. You will set technical direction, execute the platform roadmap, oversee cloud infrastructure and deployment pipelines, and balance delivery with long-term investments in tooling and reliability. You will design AI-powered internal tools and agentic workflows, improve developer productivity, ensure systems are secure and resilient, manage incident practices and on-call sustainability, and collaborate with engineering, security, and compliance stakeholders.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in platform, infrastructure, DevOps, or SRE roles
- 3+ years of experience managing and growing high-performing teams
- 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 focused on business impact
- Comfort using AI tools for development, debugging, and learning
- Experience in fintech or other regulated environments is a bonus
- Prior experience as a Staff or Senior Engineer before moving into management is a bonus
- Interest in Bitcoin is a bonus
- Fluency in English
Responsibilities
- Lead, coach, and grow a team of platform engineers across Infrastructure, DevOps, and Developer Experience
- Set technical direction for platform architecture and ensure roadmap execution
- 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
- Design and build AI-powered internal tools and agentic workflows
- Improve developer productivity by reducing friction in onboarding, CI/CD, and local-to-production workflows
- Ensure systems are secure, scalable, observable, and resilient
- Own incident management practices, postmortems, and on-call rotation sustainability
- Collaborate with product engineering, security, and compliance stakeholders
- Advocate for platform initiatives by connecting technical work to business and customer impact
Benefits
- Generous AI token budget, currently unlimited
- Stock options as part of total compensation
- Full health and dental benefits
- Separate mental health budget
- Remote work from anywhere in Canada
- Optional access to office spaces in Montreal and Toronto
- 20 days of vacation per year
- $1,000 bonus for using all vacation days
- Parental leave top-up to 100% of salary for 18 weeks
- Quarterly team-specific or company-wide offsites