📋 Job Overview
At KOHO, we are dedicated to providing pay transparency to all candidates. Compensation at KOHO is determined through various factors including but not limited to: comparable salary market data within Canada, technical skill assessment, a holistic view of previous work history, and internal pay equity with other KOHO team members.
🏢 About KOHO
We’re on a mission to make financial services better for every Canadian. That means no hidden fees, no predatory interest rates - just financial products designed to help our users spend smart, save more, and build real wealth. We’re a performance organization with a strong heart: we care deeply about outcomes, and everything ties back to our mission - to financially empower a generation of Canadians.
At KOHO, we’re not your average 9-5. We believe real impact comes from people who are trusted, empowered, and supported to do their best work - without sacrificing their lives to do it. We prioritize work-life integration, not just work-life balance. That means asynchronous collaboration, flexible hours, and a remote-first setup built around autonomy and high trust.
KOHO is entering its next chapter - leaner, smarter, more AI-integrated. We’re building for impact, not bureaucracy. If you thrive in environments that value clarity, ownership, and bold thinking, you’ll fit right in.
🎯 The Role
Ready to Shape the Platform Behind KOHO's Products? 🚀
As Engineering Manager, Platform, you'll lead a full-stack platform team that owns KOHO's mobile and web platform (how our mobile app gets released and our frontend developer tooling), internal tooling and the risk domain. This is a unique opportunity to lead a team that spans platform and feature development, building the foundations other teams rely on while supporting user-facing functionality such as login and access management.
This is a role for someone who thrives in high-impact technical environments, turns ambiguous requirements into concrete solutions, and builds high-performing teams.
You'll report directly to the Senior Manager, Platform Engineering, collaborate closely with peer platform and feature teams, and manage key stakeholders including Risk, Product, and Security. Your team will also share ownership of our authentication and authorization systems, working hand in hand with the team that leads that space.
✅ Key Responsibilities
- Build and lead a high-performing platform team: Manage a team of full-stack engineers (employees and partner contractors), set clear expectations, create real career growth paths, and maintain a culture of ownership and continuous improvement
- Own the Mobile and Web platform: Lead how our mobile app gets released, from build pipelines and release trains to app store submissions, phased rollouts, and feature flagging, and keep our web platform healthy and scalable
- Raise frontend developer experience, with AI at the core: Invest in frontend tooling, shared components, CI/CD, testing, and AI-assisted workflows so engineers across KOHO can build, test, and release with confidence
- Own internal tooling for the organization: Deliver and maintain the internal tools our operations, support, and business teams rely on, treating them as products with real users and clear quality bars
- Own the risk domain: Lead your team's ownership of risk-related systems and experiences, partnering with Risk and Compliance stakeholders to balance user experience, operational efficiency, and regulatory expectations
- Manage key vendors: Own relationships with third-party vendors in your domain, from evaluation and integration through performance, cost, contract renewals, and migrations when needed
- Own stability & production health: Keep your team's systems reliable through strong observability, a healthy support rotation, effective incident response, and steady reduction of tech debt
- Collaborate across the platform: Work closely with the authentication and authorization team on initiatives that touch the mobile and web experience, and translate Platform OKRs into a focused quarterly roadmap
📌 Required Qualifications
- Has strong full-stack engineering roots: 5+ years building and operating production software across web or mobile frontends and backend services, with enough hands-on depth to review designs, unblock engineers, and make sound architectural calls
- Is a proven people leader: 1-3 years managing an engineering team (3-6 people), with demonstrated success coaching engineers, managing performance, hiring, and building an inclusive, high-trust team culture
- Owns production outcomes: A track record of owning critical customer-facing or business-critical systems, setting and holding quality and reliability bars, and leading the team calmly through incidents
- Manages vendors effectively: Experience owning third-party vendor relationships, holding partners accountable to outcomes, and making clear build-versus-buy decisions
- Thrives in ambiguity: You can take high-level business objectives, structure the problem, and turn it into an actionable plan when requirements are not clearly defined
🎁 Benefits
- Opportunity to shape the future of fintech and financially empower a generation of Canadians
- Competitive compensation & equity
- Fantastic, Deeply Engaged Team (check out our engagement scores here!)
- Generous vacation + Wellness days + Flex Days + holiday closure
- Remote-first environment + coworking support + yearly all hands retreat
- Access to coaching & growth programs
- Parental top-up & leave policies
- Comprehensive health benefits
- Power-up budgets for books, home office setup, phone & internet, AI tools, and professional development
🛂 Visa & Eligibility
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