Engineering Manager, Voyager (Applied AI & Innovation)

Relay Financial

• $207K — $253K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience managing engineering teams, especially senior and staff-level engineers.
  • Hands-on experience in building reliable production systems, not just prototypes.
  • Strong technical foundation with experience in reviewing designs and architecture decisions.
  • Ability to manage teams through various stages of development from prototyping to production.
  • Judgment to evaluate emerging technologies and articulate their relevance to leadership.
  • Passion for team building and investment in employee growth.
  • Experience in cross-functional collaboration to drive impactful initiatives.

Responsibilities

  • Own the reliability and lifecycle of AI infrastructure systems, ensuring they are secure and efficient.
  • Lead research and development initiatives to explore and validate new technologies.
  • Enable developers with the tools and guidance necessary for swift and safe AI deployment.
  • Direct the planning and execution of platform initiatives to meet quality and business objectives.
  • Refine engineering processes to adapt to both prototype and production environments.
  • Develop a high-performing team through effective hiring, coaching, and performance management.

Benefits

  • Dynamic opportunity for impact-driven compensation based on performance.
  • Support for career growth and professional development initiatives.
  • A collaborative and cross-functional work environment with emphasis on teamwork.
  • Access to a robust tech stack including modern front-end and back-end technologies.
Full Job Description
Engineering Manager, Voyager (Applied AI & Innovation)

What You'll Be Doing
  • 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

Who You Are
  • You've managed senior-heavy teams, including senior and staff-level engineers, and know how to lead through influence, give technical leaders room to own big problems, and keep them growing
  • You have hands-on experience building agentic systems that run in production, not just prototypes, and understand what it takes to make them reliable, observable, and safe at scale
  • You have a strong technical foundation and a proven track record of shipping high-quality products. You're technical enough to review designs, challenge architecture decisions, and earn credibility with senior engineers
  • You 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 last
  • You have strong judgment about emerging technology and can separate what's useful from what's currently loud, then explain that call clearly to leadership
  • You're passionate about building and scaling engineering teams, and deeply invested in growing people to do their best work
  • 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 45-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


Our Compensation Approach

We believe Relayers should feel rewarded for the impact they have on our mission and growth. Compensation follows impact. As impact increases, compensation grows, and we do not limit compensation changes to a once-a-year review cycle.

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.

We encourage you to have a conversation with your recruiter and ask questions about compensation throughout the hiring process. For more information on our compensation philosophy and perks and benefits, visit our Candidate Hub.


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