About the company
Shakepay is reimagining financial services to give every Canadian their fair shake, by making it bitcoin-friendly, secure, and rewarding. When Shakepay launched in 2015, it quickly became one of Canada’s fastest-growing financial institutions. Backed by top venture funds having raised $44M+ and trusted by over one million Canadians and counting. People who choose careers at Shakepay are helping shape a future of financial freedom, opportunity, and prosperity for all Canadians.
Job Summary
What You’ll Be Doing
📍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 📍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, DevOps or SRE 📍Familiarity with technologies like 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 both developer experience and infrastructure 📍Strong collaboration and communication skills, with a focus on business impact
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