Engineering Manager, Risk

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

Our Risk Engineering team is building automated systems that detect, prevent, and mitigate financial risk and fraud—while maintaining a seamless customer experience and minimizing manual intervention. In this role, you’ll help scale and evolve these capabilities to support Relay’s growth, balancing effective risk management with a frictionless user experience. You’ll work on thoughtful, reliable solutions that enable the business to grow safely and confidently, alongside a team that moves quickly, ships with care, and takes ownership.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Delivery Leadership: Lead the planning, execution, and delivery of risk-critical engineering initiatives, ensuring systems meet high standards of quality, reliability, and safety

• Team Operations: Ensure engineering processes and rituals effectively support high-stakes systems, including thoughtful sprint planning, strong code reviews, and rigorous technical design reviews

• Technical Strategy: Partner with senior leadership to shape and execute the technical strategy for risk, fraud, and trust systems, balancing business growth, customer experience, and risk exposure

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with Product, Risk, Compliance, Operations, and other partners to turn ambiguous risk challenges into clear, scalable engineering solutions

• People Management & Development: Build and grow a high-performing engineering team through hiring, onboarding, coaching, and performance management

• Culture & Growth: Foster a collaborative, feedback-driven environment that supports continuous learning and professional development; encourage mentorship and knowledge sharing while creating opportunities for team development

Who You Are

• You bring 5+ years of full-stack software development experience, ideally within a high-growth B2B SaaS or fintech environment, along with 1-3 years in a people management role

• You have a strong technical foundation and a proven track record of shipping high-quality products; experience with Node.js, TypeScript, React, and AWS is a plus

• You’ve built and owned internal tools or platforms, working closely with stakeholders to transform ambiguous problems into scalable, reliable systems that drive real impact

• You’re passionate about building and scaling engineering teams, and deeply invested in growing and developing people to do their best work

• You communicate clearly and effectively, and bring calm and clarity in times of ambiguity and change

• You’re a pragmatic decision-maker with a customer-centric mindset, able to navigate tradeoffs around scope, technical debt, and timelines while keeping customer needs front and center

• You demonstrate strong engineering judgment, thoughtfully weighing the impact of decisions on customers and the business, particularly in high-stakes or irreversible scenarios

• You thrive in cross-functional environments, bringing teams together, connecting the dots, and driving initiatives that deliver meaningful impact

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

The Interview Process

• Stage 1: A 30-minute Google Meet video call with a member of the Talent team

• Stage 2: A 60-minute Google Meet video call with our Engineering Leaders

• Stage 3: A take-home case study followed by a 60-minute Google Meet video call with our Engineering team

• Stage 4: A 45-minute in-person interview with a member of the Leadership team

The annual salary range for this role is $207,000 CAD to $253,000 CAD.

For candidates who demonstrate full readiness for the defined scope of the role, the typical starting salary is $230,000 CAD. Offers below this point reflect candidates we believe can grow into the full scope of the role with support and development. Offers above this point reflect impact that meaningfully exceeds the role’s defined expectations or an expanded scope from day one.

• You push relentlessly for reinvention: You're always asking "how can this be better?" -- in your work, in your craft, in yourself. Comfort is a signal to push harder, not coast. You'd rather build something better than defend something familiar.