Senior Software Engineer II, Multiple Teams

Our Engineering team is at the heart of building banking products that help millions of small businesses succeed. We're on a journey to reinvent banking, and we're looking for Senior Software Engineer II to help set the technical direction for how we get there. You'll take on our highest-risk, most ambiguous work, spot the problems that matter before anyone assigns them, and bring teams together around solutions that move the business forward.

This is a unique opportunity to shape architecture across interconnected systems, raise the engineering bar beyond your own team, and grow the next generation of technical leaders at Relay. If you're excited about building best-in-class fintech products and multiplying your impact through others, this is the role for you.

What You'll Be Doing

• Technical Direction: Lead architecture and the highest-risk work across interconnected systems, and set practical standards for quality, reliability, security, and maintainability

• Cross-Team Delivery: Own ambiguous, cross-team initiatives from problem definition through measurable outcomes by setting priorities, resolving dependencies, and keeping execution moving

• Product Judgment: Find important problems before they're assigned, and tie technical decisions to customer needs, business priorities, cost, and risk

• Cross-Team Influence: Align teams with different priorities using context, evidence, and sound judgment rather than formal authority

• Organizational Improvement: Create practices, tooling, documentation, and guardrails that improve delivery and operational effectiveness across Engineering

• Developing Others: Coach engineers and delegate meaningful ownership so you create more technical leaders instead of becoming a bottleneck

Who You Are

• You have led architecture for complex, interconnected systems and owned the highest-risk technical decisions

• You have driven cross-team initiatives from an ambiguous problem to measurable results

• You connect technical trade-offs to customer impact, business priorities, cost, and risk

• You influence without authority, aligning teams and stakeholders through context and evidence

• You have created standards, tooling, or processes that improved how teams beyond your own deliver and operate

• You grow engineers by coaching and delegating real ownership, and you measure your success by the leaders you develop

• You thrive in fast-paced, dynamic environments and are comfortable navigating ambiguity and change

It's a bonus (but not required) if you

• Have worked in startups or high-growth tech companies

• Have experience with JavaScript (we primarily use TypeScript, React, and Node.js)

• Have working knowledge of AWS services (ECS, S3, RDS, Dynamo, Lambda) and continuous deployment pipelines

• Have experience in fintech, banking, or other regulated environments

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 45-minute Google Meet video call with a member of the Talent team

• Stage 2: A 60-minute live coding exercise with two members of the Engineering team

• Stage 3: A 60-minute Google Meet video call with two Engineering Leaders

• Stage 4: A take-home system design challenge, followed by a 60-minute Google Meet video call review with two members of the Engineering team

• Stage 5: A 45-minute in-person interview with a member of the Leadership team

The annual salary range for this role is $175,500 CAD to $214,500 CAD.

For candidates who demonstrate full readiness for the defined scope of the role, the typical starting salary is $195,000 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.