Who you are

• Experience leading infrastructure, platform, SRE, or DevEx teams
• Strong technical depth across cloud infrastructure (AWS), networking, and distributed systems
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or similar)
• Experience designing and operating highly reliable production systems
• Strong empathy for developer workflows and productivity challenges
• Ability to contribute code and guide technical direction
• Excellent communication skills and cross-functional collaboration experience
• Experience operating in regulated, reliability-sensitive, or high-scale environments is preferred
• You’ll Be Great in This Role If You:
• Enjoy building platforms that empower other engineers
• Care deeply about reliability, clarity, and operational excellence
• Balance pragmatism with long-term thinking
• Are comfortable being hands-on while leading others
• Prefer collaboration over control
• View platform work as leverage, not overhead
• At Float, you’ll thrive if you’re bold, curious, and eager to make a real impact. We're building something special—and having a lot of fun along the way. If you’re excited to build, grow, and win together, we’d love to meet you

What the job involves

• We’re hiring an Engineering Manager for Platform to lead Float’s Infrastructure and Developer Experience (DevEx) teams
• This group is responsible for the reliability, scalability, and usability of Float’s engineering systems, ensuring teams can ship safely, efficiently, and with confidence as we scale deeper into financial services
• This role sits at the intersection of infrastructure, reliability, and developer productivity
• You’ll unify infrastructure and DevEx into a cohesive platform function, eliminate friction across engineering workflows, and raise the bar on uptime and operational maturity
• This is a hands-on leadership role, with an expected 50/50 split between technical contribution and people leadership
• Platform Leadership & Strategy:
• Lead and evolve a unified Platform organization spanning infrastructure, SRE practices, and developer experience
• Define the platform vision, roadmap, and success metrics in partnership with Engineering leadership
• Balance near-term reliability needs with long-term platform investments
• Reliability & Infrastructure Excellence
• Own platform reliability, uptime, and operational health as Float scales into banking-grade systems
• Establish and mature SRE practices including monitoring, alerting, incident response, and postmortems
• Drive adoption of Infrastructure as Code and automation across the stack
• Developer Experience & Enablement
• Build internal tooling, workflows, and abstractions that reduce cognitive load and accelerate delivery
• Identify and remove friction across CI/CD, local development, deployment, and production workflows
• Act as a strong advocate for engineers by deeply understanding how teams build and ship software
• Hands-On Technical Leadership (50%):
• Contribute directly to infrastructure, automation, and platform code
• Review designs and PRs with a focus on reliability, scalability, and operability
• Partner closely with Product and Application Engineering on platform needs
• People Leadership (50%):
• Coach and develop platform engineers across infra and DevEx disciplines
• Build strong operating rhythms, clarity, and accountability
• Foster a collaborative, pragmatic culture grounded in ownership and continuous improvement

Benefits

• Competitive coverage of medical, dental and vision insurance for employees
• Education & learning stipend for personal growth and development
• Flexible vacation time
• Work from home stipend to help you succeed in a remote environment