Engineering Manager, Platform

As Engineering Manager, Platform, you'll lead a full-stack platform team that owns KOHO's mobile and web platform, internal tooling and the risk domain. The role reports to the Senior Manager, Platform Engineering, and includes managing key stakeholders across Risk, Product, and Security. The team shares ownership of authentication and authorization systems. KOHO is a remote-first organization with a posted salary range of $160,000 – $190,000 CAD per year.

Responsibilities

Build and lead a high-performing platform team of full-stack engineers (employees and partner contractors); Own the mobile and web platform, including mobile app release, build pipelines, release trains, app store submissions, phased rollouts, feature flagging, and web platform health and scalability; Raise frontend developer experience with AI-assisted workflows, tooling, shared components, CI/CD, and testing; Own internal tooling used by operations, support, and business teams; Own the risk domain in partnership with Risk and Compliance stakeholders; Manage key third-party vendor relationships; Own stability and production health, including observability, support rotation, incident response, and tech debt reduction; Collaborate with the authentication and authorization team and translate Platform OKRs into a quarterly roadmap

Requirements

5+ years building and operating production software across web or mobile frontends and backend services; 1-3 years managing an engineering team (3-6 people); Track record owning critical customer-facing or business-critical systems; Experience owning third-party vendor relationships; Ability to structure ambiguous business objectives into actionable plans; Ability to shape a roadmap and dive deep into implementation or production issues; Ability to explain technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders and write clear docs

Nice to have

Experience in financial services, payments, fraud, identity verification, or authentication and authorization (e.g., OAuth/OIDC, SSO, MFA); Hands-on experience with vendors such as Onfido or Auth0; Experience with mobile CI/CD, release automation, and app store processes; Experience delivering internal platforms or admin tooling; Passion for developer experience; Experience with AI-enabled workflows; Experience building teams that own systems end to end, from design through on-call