Engineering Manager

North One is looking for an Engineering Manager to join our high-performing team . We are a remote-first, venture-backed startup at the heart of the FinTech movement and we’re reshaping financial services and banking for small businesses across America. We are backed by some of the best VCs in the world and are solving important problems. 

Our product & mission

North One is a business banking and financial management platform for small businesses across America. We don’t stop at being a faster, easier and simpler version of a bank - we’re focused on creating better financial outcomes for our customers by changing the definition of what a bank can do.  We’re building a digital finance department for every small business in America with our business bank account as its foundation. 

Our mission is to build a connected business banking and financial management platform that lets anyone run a successful small business. Our team believes deeply in the transformative power of entrepreneurship and wants to democratize taking ownership of your economic independence.

Our team

We ❤ Engineering.  As our Engineering Manager, you’ll work with our world-class Engineering team. Reporting to our Director of Engineering, you’ll be joining a team who have helped build companies like Chime, Twitter, Instacart, E-Trade, McKinsey, Etsy, eBay, LendingTree, Expedia and more. 

We’re a team of A-players who are all-in on solving big, important problems. Feeling it?

REQUIREMENTS

As an Engineering Manager, you will work with our small but mighty development team to build and scale high quality financial products. 

Some of what you will be doing includes:

• People & Team Management:  Maintain a talent-dense and high-trust team through transparency, coaching, feedback sessions, and using data to measure what matters
• Agile & Process Management: Lead agile processes for a scrum team, and collaborate with PM and Senior Developers to plan and execute on the roadmap
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work with stakeholders from across the business to align expectations and manage dependencies
• Technical Leadership: Set a high bar for quality by mitigating technical risks, advocating for best practices, and identifying technical opportunities that align with business goals  

The skills required for this role -

• 2+ years of managing software engineers in a dynamic startup environment as a team lead or direct manager
• 4+ years as a software developer working on web products using a modern tech stack (distributed, serverless, microservices, cloud native)
• Successful experience building a strong performance culture and coaching developers to do their best work
• Experience with multiple flavors of agile, ie. Scrum, Kanban, Extreme Programming, and using agile principles to continually improve execution and team culture
• Excellent project management skills, including experience with Atlassian products (Jira, Confluence). Can successfully use data, process, and collaboration to deliver aligned results for the business.
• Successful experience balancing priorities between technical debt, KTLO, feature iterations, and new feature delivery.
• Strong communicator and collaborator who knows how to connect the dots between departments and stakeholders.

Bonus points -

• Experience working in FinTech
• Has built or managed Mobile applications (ie. React Native, Flutter, Native mobile)

BENEFITS

As a valuable member of North One’s team, you’ll get:

• Family coverage of top-tier health/dental benefits: Get the right coverage for what matters most.
• Remote-first work: You decide where you work. You can work from home, visit one of our in-person hubs, or work while you travel.
• Professional development budget: Enjoy an annual budget to deepen your expertise
• Unlimited paid time off: We measure success around outcomes, not hours worked.
• Powerful gear: We’ll make sure you have the right tech to do your best work.
• Market range for this role at North One is $160,000-$175,000 CAD. At this time, we are looking for a candidate located in Canada. 

Few people have been trained for this sort of role, and research shows that women and people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply if they haven’t satisfied every requirement. If you are this close to what we’ve described, but aren’t sure, apply. Let’s figure out together if this is where you could shine. North One is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer and celebrates diversity. We welcome all applicants regardless of race, color, gender, age, religion, sexual orientation, disability status or national origin.