About the role

Backend Engineer designing and maintaining systems for financial workflows at Float, a Canadian fintech startup. Contributing to core capabilities ensuring correctness, reliability, and trust.

Responsibilities

Design and maintain backend systems that support money movement and financial workflows.
Model complex data and state transitions with a strong focus on correctness and invariants.
Build and evolve distributed systems, including asynchronous workflows, retries, and failure handling.
Anticipate edge cases and scale challenges before they become production issues.
Apply disciplined testing and validation practices for high-blast-radius changes.
Partner with Product, Frontend, and Platform teams to deliver reliable customer outcomes.
Take ownership of systems in production, including reliability and post-incident learning.

Experience building backend systems beyond basic CRUD patterns.
Comfort reasoning about data flow, state transitions, and distributed system trade-offs.
Solid database fundamentals, including transactional integrity and performance at scale.
An ownership mindset for systems running in production.
Curiosity and adaptability — language or framework experience matters less than how you think.
Bonus: exposure to financial systems, ledgering, payments, or high-scale transactional platforms.

Competitive compensation, equity options, and benefits
Hybrid work model – we are based in Toronto with in-office days for connection and collaboration
Enjoy catered team lunches every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
Bring your pup to our dog-friendly office
Thrive in a high-trust, high-performance culture where your work truly matters