Relay
Director of Engineering
Toronto, ON · Director
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 250 days ago
Product StrategyLeadershipCommunicationMentoring
About the role
- We do this by replacing financial guesswork with real visibility, transforming cash flow from a constant source of stress into a clear signal owners can use to run stronger, more resilient businesses.
- Relay is entering an exciting new chapter of growth.
- You'll help shape the infrastructure, processes, and culture that enable our teams and Relay as a whole to grow with confidence and clarity.
Responsibilities
- Lead and scale our product engineering organization as we double and then triple in size. You'll attract, hire, and develop exceptional engineers and leaders, building the foundation for Relay's next stage of growth.
- Own the growth and performance of our engineering team, ensuring every engineer has the clarity, coaching, and support they need to thrive and deliver high-impact work.
- Foster a culture of innovation and continuous improvement that empowers teams to take smart risks, experiment, and build groundbreaking solutions for small businesses.
- Drive alignment and delivery across multiple teams, ensuring the right systems, rituals, and processes are in place for teams to execute effectively and sustainably.
- Partner across the company to build the systems and tools that scale. You'll help shape the infrastructure, processes, and culture that enable our teams and Relay as a whole to grow with confidence and clarity.
- You will leverage your 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years leading teams in high-growth environments, to inspire, scale, and guide your team in building exceptional products.
- You'd rather build something better than defend something familiar.
- If you require accommodations at any stage of the hiring process, please reach out to your Talent Partner.
- If building the best in class banking product that is changing the way SMBs succeed speaks to you, we want to hear from you!
Requirements
- You have excellent communication skills and are able to calmly provide clarity in times of uncertainty or change
Nice to have
- You've joined a company at its early stages and have seen it through scale
- You have experience working in a fintech
Compensation
- A take-home case study followed by a 60-minute Google Meet video call with our team
- Our Compensation Approach
- We believe Relayers should feel rewarded for the impact they have on our mission and growth.
- Compensation follows impact.
- As impact increases, compensation grows, and we do not limit compensation changes to a once-a-year review cycle.
- The annual salary range for this role is $270,000 CAD to $330,000 CAD.
Company info
- Align engineering with Relay's mission. Partner with Product, Design, and business leaders to translate strategy into a unified roadmap, making tough prioritization calls to focus on what matters most to our customers and the business.
- You apply your deep technical expertise and a track record of shipping impactful products to build scalable, reliable systems that accelerate delivery and empower teams to consistently delight customers and drive results.
- Intimately comfortable with shifting priorities, tradeoffs in scope, technical debt, tight timelines, etc. while also making the right decisions for customers.
- We're looking for people who are relentless, curious, and care deeply about the work.
- Please note that we are a hybrid environment and choose to collaborate in the office three days a week (Tues-Thurs).
This listing is sourced directly from Relay's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.