Relay is entering an exciting new chapter, and we’re hiring an Engineering Manager, Voyager to help shape how AI powers our next stage of scale. You’ll make high-impact, strategic decisions every day, with direct influence over the technology foundations behind a product used and loved by thousands of small businesses

Voyager works a step ahead, exploring what’s next for Relay. We build the technology foundations that make AI and insights possible across the product, and we partner with product teams so they can build quickly on top of them. We also act as Relay’s innovation center, running fast, exploratory spikes on emerging technologies to establish what’s viable before the company commits to it

The work spans both ends of the maturity curve, from hardening infrastructure other teams depend on to prototyping things that may not exist yet. In this role, you’ll decide where the team places its bets, keep the balance between exploration and production, and grow the engineers doing the work

AI Infrastructure Ownership: Be accountable for the reliability, security, and lifecycle of Voyager’s shared LLM systems, from design through deployment and monitoring

R&D; and Proof-of-Concepts: Lead exploratory initiatives that evaluate and validate emerging technologies, producing a clear recommendation on whether and how Relay should adopt them

Developer Enablement: Give teams across Relay the tooling, patterns, and guidance they need to ship AI workflows quickly and safely

Delivery Leadership: Lead the planning and delivery of Voyager’s platform and R&D; initiatives, making sure work meets quality standards, timelines, and business goals. Drive clarity in priorities and execution across the team

Team Operations: Establish and refine engineering processes,



including sprint planning, code reviews, and technical design reviews, adapted for a team that moves between prototypes and production systems

People Management & Development: Build and grow a high-performing, senior-heavy engineering team through hiring, onboarding, coaching, and performance management, creating clear growth paths for senior and staff-level engineers

Our Tech Stack

Front-end: React, Typescript, React Native

Back-end: Node.js, Typescript, Terraform, AWS (DynamoDB, RDS Postgres, Lambda, S3, SQS, SNS, SES, ElasticSearch, ECS)

Tools: Cursor, Claude, GitHub, GitHub Actions, Datadog, Jira, Metabase

Advantages

Competitive salary and meaningful equity: Relay employees are Relay owners, complete with equity and a competitive salary. Since 2023, 66%+ of employees have received salary increases, with multiple new team members joining just last year.

Social connection: We believe in celebrating our wins with two annual company-wide get-togethers, quarterly team events, happy hours, and special events and networking opportunities with industry leaders.

Personal and professional growth: Through ongoing feedback, mentorship, and coaching, work with peers and leaders who are invested in your growth and success. Even with more than half of our team joining in the last 12 months, almost 20% have received promotions in the last year alone.

Parental leave with top-up:



We offer 12 weeks off with a 100% salary top-up for all full‑time employees, regardless of location, and accessible for all parents: birthing, non‑birthing, and adoptive

Comprehensive health benefits: Enjoy full health benefits from day one: no probation period required. We offer flexible Health or Wellness Spending Accounts and medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents.

Hybrid work environment: We value meaningful collaboration and connection at our Toronto office three days per week, with lunch, snacks, and beverages on us.

Top‑tier equipment: As a Mac‑first company, our Toronto offices have everything you need to produce your best work comfortably, from multiple screens to ergonomic seating.

Flexible vacation and time off: Every team member starts with 15 vacation days and 5 flex days to use as needed, plus an extra week of office closure during the end‑of‑year holidays.

Dog‑friendly space: Can dogs really make you happy and healthy? We don’t know for sure, but since we don’t want to chance it, our office is 100% floof‑friendly.

Award‑winning workplace: As a winner of CB Insights’ Fintech 100, Deloitte Canada’s Technology Fast 50, Forbes Fintech 50, and the CIX Top 10 Growth Award, Relay is a recognized innovative and high‑growth company.

You have strong judgment about emerging technology and can separate what’s useful from what’s currently loud, then explain that call clearly to leadershipYou can run a team that moves between exploration and production, and you know when a rough spike is the right answer and when something needs to be built to lastYou’ve managed senior‑heavy teams, including se

📌 Engineering Manager (Canada)
🏢 Relay
📍 Canada