Engineering Manager (Platform)

Join KOHO, a leading Canadian fintech company, as an Engineering Manager for the Platform team. In this role, you will lead a full-stack platform team responsible for KOHO's mobile and web platform, internal tooling, and the risk domain. You will report directly to the Senior Manager of Platform Engineering and collaborate closely with peer platform and feature teams. Your responsibilities will include managing a team of full-stack engineers, owning the mobile and web platform, improving frontend developer experience, managing internal tooling, and overseeing the risk domain. You will also manage key vendor relationships and ensure the stability and production health of your team's systems.

• Diriger une équipe de développement de plateforme full-stack, responsable de la plateforme mobile et web de KOHO, des outils internes et du domaine des risques.
• Assurer la qualité et la fiabilité des systèmes critiques pour les clients, en établissant des normes de qualité et de fiabilité, et en dirigeant l'équipe à travers les incidents.
• Gérer les relations avec les fournisseurs tiers dans votre domaine, de l'évaluation et de l'intégration à la performance, au coût, au renouvellement des contrats et aux migrations si nécessaire.

• This is a role for someone who thrives in high-impact technical environments, turns ambiguous requirements into concrete solutions, and builds high-performing teams
• Communicates with exceptional clarity: You explain technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders, write clear docs, and build strong relationships with Product, Design, Risk, and peer engineering teams
• Owns production outcomes: A track record of owning critical customer-facing or business-critical systems, setting and holding quality and reliability bars, and leading the team calmly through incidents
• Thrives in ambiguity: You can take high-level business objectives, structure the problem, and turn it into an actionable plan when requirements are not clearly defined
• Balances strategy with execution: You can shape a roadmap and improve team process, then dive deep to unblock a tricky implementation or production issue
• Has strong full-stack engineering roots: 5+ years building and operating production software across web or mobile frontends and backend services, with enough hands-on depth to review designs, unblock engineers, and make sound architectural calls
• Is a proven people leader: 1-3 years managing an engineering team (3-6 people), with demonstrated success coaching engineers, managing performance, hiring, and building an inclusive, high-trust team culture
• Manages vendors effectively: Experience owning third-party vendor relationships, holding partners accountable to outcomes, and making clear build-versus-buy decisions
• This role is best suited for someone who wants real growth - not just more tasks, but more scope, more impact, and more trust, and wants to make a real impact in the financial lives of Canadians
• You've owned mobile release and platform engineering: Experience with mobile CI/CD, release automation, app store processes, and frontend build tooling at consumer scale
• You've built internal tools people love: You've delivered internal platforms or admin tooling that measurably improved how operations, support, or business teams work
• You've worked in risk, identity, or auth domains: Experience in financial services, payments, fraud, identity verification, or authentication and authorization (e.g., OAuth/OIDC, SSO, MFA), where risk, security, and auditability shape product decisions. Nice-to-have: hands-on experience with vendors such as Onfido or Auth0
• You're passionate about developer experience: You treat the platform as a product for internal engineers and invest in tooling, shared components, CI/CD, and self-service that make their lives better
• You embrace AI-enabled workflows: You're excited about using AI to accelerate development, testing, and code review, and you help your team adopt it thoughtfully
• You understand "you build it, you run it": You've built teams that own their systems end to end, from design through on-call, with strong observability and feature-flagged releases