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 solid, 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.
- Robust 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.

📌 Engineering Manager (Toronto)
🏢 My Beacon
📍 Toronto