Job Description & How to Apply Below
About Shakepay. Since 2015, we’ve been building the Shakepay app to make buying and earning bitcoin fast, easy, and secure. In 2022, we launched the Shakepay Card, allowing shakers to earn bitcoin rewards when they shop. Today, more than 1.5 million Canadians use Shakepay to grow their bitcoin savings and take control of their financial future. We’re regulated across all Canadian provinces and territories, and backed by renowned venture capitalists with a funding of $44M.
We have a passionate, loyal, and growing community, and we’re looking for people who want to help us build something truly special.
About The Platform Team
The Platform team empowers other engineering teams at Shakepay by providing the tools, infrastructure, and best practices they need to be autonomous, productive, and reliable. As the Platform Engineering Manager, you’ll ensure we balance fast delivery with operational excellence.
About
The Role
We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to lead and grow a team of platform engineers with a focus on Infrastructure, Dev Ops and developer experience.
This role is responsible for people leadership, technical direction, and delivery across platform initiatives that impact every engineering team ’ll partner closely with Engineers, Engineering leaders, Security, and Compliance, and lead by example, staying hands-on where it matters to shape technical decisions, support delivery, and ensure our platform evolves in step with both developer and business needs.
You don’t need to be the deepest expert in every area, but you must be technically strong enough to set direction, challenge assumptions, and make tradeoffs across Dev Ex, infrastructure, and reliability.
What You’ll Be Doing
Lead, coach, and grow a team of platform engineers across Infrastructure, Dev Ops 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
Improve developer productivity by reducing friction in onboarding, CI/CD, and local-to-prod workflows
Ensure systems are secure, scalable, observable, and resilient as Shakepay grows
Own incident management practices, postmortems, and sustainability of the on-call rotation
Collaborate closely with product engineering, security, and compliance stakeholders
Advocate for platform work by tying technical initiatives to business and customer impact
Who We’re Looking For
10+ years of experience in software engineering with 3+ years managing and growing high-performing teams
Strong technical background in platform, infrastructure, Dev Ops or SRE
Familiarity with technologies like Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, ArgoCD, Datadog, Postgre
SQL, CI/CD tooling, and Git Ops
Experience operating production systems and supporting on-call rotations
Ability to set technical direction across both developer experience and infrastructure
Strong collaboration and communication skills, with a focus on business impact
Bonus points
Experience in fintech or other regulated environments
Prior experience as a Staff or Senior Engineer before moving into management
Interest in Bitcoin and excitement to learn more
Why join us?
Help shape the future of money:
Be part of a team that s revolutionizing financial services in Canada, one sat at a time.
Impact millions:
As cryptocurrency continues to gain traction, our potential for growth is massive. You can help us bring Shakepay and Bitcoin to all Canadians.
Grow your career:
We re growing, and so can you! We have programs in place to encourage continuous learning, growth, and development.
Ideas, not titles:
We want the best ideas to make their way…
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