Relay
Engineering Manager, Risk Engineering
Toronto, ON
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 193 days ago
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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 phase of growth, and we're hiring an Engineering Manager for the Risk team to help scale what comes next.
- You'll be making high-impact, strategic decisions every day, with direct influence on shaping a product used and loved by thousands of small businesses.
Responsibilities
- Delivery Leadership: Lead the planning, execution, and delivery of risk-critical engineering initiatives, ensuring systems meet high standards of quality, reliability, and safety
- Team Operations: Ensure engineering processes and rituals effectively support high-stakes systems, including thoughtful sprint planning, strong code reviews, and rigorous technical design reviews
- Technical Strategy: Partner with senior leadership to shape and execute the technical strategy for risk, fraud, and trust systems, balancing business growth, customer experience, and risk exposure
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with Product, Risk, Compliance, Operations, and other partners to turn ambiguous risk challenges into clear, scalable engineering solutions
- People Management & Development: Build and grow a high-performing engineering team through hiring, onboarding, coaching, and performance management
- Ensure engineering processes and rituals effectively support high-stakes systems, including thoughtful sprint planning, strong code reviews, and rigorous technical design reviews
- Partner with senior leadership to shape and execute the technical strategy for risk, fraud, and trust systems, balancing business growth, customer experience, and risk exposure
- Build and grow a high-performing engineering team through hiring, onboarding, coaching, and performance management
- Offers below this point reflect candidates we believe can grow into the full scope of the role with support and development.
- You'd rather build something better than defend something familiar.
Requirements
- You bring 5+ years of full-stack software development experience, ideally within a high-growth B2B SaaS or fintech environment, along with 1-3 years in a people management role
Nice to have
- You have a strong technical foundation and a proven track record of shipping high-quality products
- experience with Node.js, TypeScript, React, and AWS is a plus
Skills
- Cursor, Claude, GitHub, GitHub Actions, Datadog, Jira, Metabase
- What You'll Be Doing
- The Interview Process
Compensation
- The annual salary range for this role is $207,000 CAD to $253,000 CAD.
- For candidates who demonstrate full readiness for the defined scope of the role, the typical starting salary is $230,000 CAD.
Benefits
- For more information on our compensation philosophy and perks and benefits, visit our Candidate Hub https://www.notion.so/Candidate-Hub-1c7da8b7f88580a893f7d7c7852b064e?pvs=21.
Company info
- You have a strong technical foundation and a proven track record of shipping high-quality products; experience with Node.js, TypeScript, React, and AWS is a plus
- You've built and owned internal tools or platforms, working closely with stakeholders to transform ambiguous problems into scalable, reliable systems that drive real impact
- You're passionate about building and scaling engineering teams, and deeply invested in growing and developing people to do their best work
- You communicate clearly and effectively, and bring calm and clarity in times of ambiguity and change
- You're a pragmatic decision-maker with a customer-centric mindset, able to navigate tradeoffs around scope, technical debt, and timelines while keeping customer needs front and center
- You demonstrate strong engineering judgment, thoughtfully weighing the impact of decisions on customers and the business, particularly in high-stakes or irreversible scenarios
- You thrive in cross-functional environments, bringing teams together, connecting the dots, and driving initiatives that deliver meaningful impact
- We believe Relayers should feel rewarded for the impact they have on our mission and growth.
- We're looking for people who are relentless, curious, and care deeply about the work.
This listing is sourced directly from Relay's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.