Engineering Manager, Platform
Shakepay
| Company | Shakepay |
| Category | Engineering |
| Location | Remote |
| Remote | Remote |
| Employment | Not stated |
| Level | Manager |
| Salary | Not stated by the employer |
| Posted | 16 Jan 2026 |
| Last verified | 30 Jul 2026 |
| Source | Employer career page (greenhouse) |
Description
At Shakepay, we’re on a mission to usher in the bitcoin golden age. We’re reimagining financial services to give every Canadian their fair shake. Our culture is built around doing work that matters, winning as a team, and celebrating success. If you're the kind of person who values growth, shipping fast, and sharing your ideas openly with a group of like-minded people, come and build with us! About Shakepay
Since 2015, we’ve been building the Shakepay app to make buying and earning bitcoin fast, easy, and secure. In 2022, we launched the Shakepay Card, allowing shakers to earn bitcoin rewards when they shop. Today, more than 1.5 million Canadians use Shakepay to grow their bitcoin savings and take control of their financial future.
We’re regulated across all Canadian provinces and territories, and backed by renowned venture capitalists with a funding of $44M. We have a passionate, loyal, and growing community, and we’re looking for people who want to help us build something truly special.
About the Platform Team
The Platform team empowers other engineering teams at Shakepay by providing the tools, infrastructure, and best practices they need to be autonomous, productive, and reliable. As the Platform Engineering Manager, you’ll ensure we balance fast delivery with operational excellence.
About the Role
We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to lead and grow a team of platform engineers with a focus on Infrastructure, SRE and DevOps .
This role is responsible for people leadership, technical direction, and delivery across platform initiatives that impact every engineering team at Shakepay. You’ll partner closely with Engineers, Engineering leaders, Security, and Compliance, and lead by example, staying hands-on where it matters to shape technical decisions, support delivery, and ensure our platform evolves in step with both developer and business needs. You’ll also play a key role in developing an agentic layer of the platform, building intelligent tooling and agentic workflows that automate repetitive work, assist engineers in complex tasks, and enable teams across the company to interact with systems and data in new ways
You don’t need to be the deepest expert in every area, but you must be technically strong enough to set direction, challenge assumptions, and make tradeoffs across DevEx, infrastructure, and reliability.
What You’ll Be Doing
Lead, coach, and grow a team of platform engineers across Infrastructure, DevOps and Developer Experience.
Set technical direction for platform architecture and ensure roadmap execution
Balance short-term delivery with long-term investments in tooling, infrastructure, and reliability
Oversee cloud infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and operational tooling in a regulated environment
Design and build AI-powered internal tools and agentic workflows that automate tasks and augment engineering productivity
Improve developer productivity by reducing friction in onboarding, CI/CD, and local-to-prod workflows
Ensure systems are secure, scalable, observable, and resilient as Shakepay grows
Own incident management practices, postmortems, and sustainability of the on-call rotation
Collaborate closely with product engineering, security, and compliance stakeholders
Advocate for platform work by tying technical initiatives to business and customer impact
Who We’re Looking For
10+ years of experience in platform, infrastructure, DevOps or SRE roles
3+ years managing and growing high-performing teams
Familiarity with technologies like Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, ArgoCD, Datadog, PostgreSQL, CI/CD tooling, and GitOps
Experience operating production systems and supporting on-call rotations
Ability to set technical direction across both developer experience and infrastructure
Strong collaboration and communication skills, with a focus on business impact
Comfort using AI tools in your day-to-day wo
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