Job opportunity
Engineering Manager
My Beacon
Beacon ( 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
.
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.
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Apply on source site Beacon exists to empower life across borders
.
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.
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