Engineering Manager

**About My Beacon**

Beacon ([www.mybeacon.ca](http://www.mybeacon.ca/)) is a Toronto-based fintech building financial services for NRIs settled in Canada. It offers a newcomer-focused app-based financial service that combines pre-arrival banking, cross-border payments, and day-to-day money management for Canadian and NRIs like students, workers, and new residents in Canada. **Beacon exists to empower life across borders**.

To learn more about working at My Beacon, please check out our [careers page on our website](https://mybeacon.ca/careers/)

About the Role

We’re looking for a **hands-on Engineering Manager** who takes end-to-end ownership of technology and delivery.

This is not a role where your scope is limited to a predefined roadmap or set of tickets. We’re looking for someone who thinks and operates like a **founder of the technology function** — proactive, self-driven, technically strong, and accountable for outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the **end-to-end development and delivery** of complex software projects, from architecture and coding through deployment and production.
• Lead and mentor a distributed team of backend, frontend, and QA engineers across different time zones.
• Stay hands-on with **architecture, coding, debugging, and code reviews**.
• Work closely with Product and Design to turn requirements into scalable, well-documented technical solutions.
• Own the reliability, security, performance, and operational health of production systems.
• Have strong **DevOps ownership** , including CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, containers, observability, deployment, and incident response.
• Use **AI effectively in day-to-day engineering** to improve productivity, code quality, testing, debugging, documentation, and problem-solving.
• Proactively identify and solve technical and product problems without waiting for them to be assigned.
• Build a culture of **craftsmanship, accountability, autonomy, and continuous improvement**.
• Develop engineers through regular 1:1s, feedback, mentoring, and clear career growth.

We're Looking For

• **7–8+ years of software engineering experience , with 2+ years in an Engineering Manager or technical leadership role**.
• Fintech, banking, or payments experience is **strongly preferred** , but not mandatory.
• Strong hands-on experience with **Go and/or Java** , with a willingness to work increasingly with Java.
• Strong understanding of **SQL databases, AWS, microservices, and distributed systems**.
• Strong command of **DevOps and production engineering practices**.
• Experience with modern software development and code review practices using tools such as GitHub/GitLab.
• Strong understanding of security, reliability, testing, and operational best practices.
• Comfortable using **AI tools as part of everyday engineering work** and able to identify where AI can create a meaningful advantage.
• **Highly self-driven and comfortable with ambiguity** — you create clarity rather than wait for it.
• Strong ownership mindset: you think beyond your assigned scope and take responsibility for the technology as a whole.
• Excellent communication skills, particularly when working with distributed teams.

The Mindset We're Looking For

**Don’t just manage the work. Own the technology.**

We want someone who sees a problem and takes it from **“this should be better” → “here’s how we fix it” → “I’ll make it happen.”**

You should enjoy the full engineering lifecycle — **architecting, coding, reviewing, deploying, debugging, operating, and improving systems.**