About Float

Float is on a mission to simplify finance for Canadian businesses, empowering them to eliminate complexity and unlock new opportunities. Through our innovative platform, Float enables businesses to streamline spending and optimize cash flow, so they can focus on what matters most: growth. As one of Canada's fastest growing companies and top-rated startups in 2024 and 2023, Float is customer-obsessed, passionate, and entrepreneurial, with a team that includes leaders from Uber, Shopify, Top Hat, Ritual, Ada, and more.

At Float, everyone is an owner, bringing their unique perspective to our team and product. Your voice is important, and we take having a culture based on feedback seriously. We openly share our thoughts and differing opinions so we can continue to improve. We do our best to keep our decision-making decentralized so that all team members feel ownership in our success.

Our product

Float is Canada's first finance platform designed to empower businesses with fast, flexible, and accessible financial solutions. Our integrated suite of products—including corporate cards, bill pay, reimbursements, and financial services—rethinks how companies access capital, streamline spending, and manage growth. Backed by world-class investors like Tiger Global, Golden Ventures, and Susa Ventures, we're disrupting the global B2B finance space—and we're looking for bold innovators to help shape the future of business finance.

About the Senior Full Stack Developer role

This might just be the best Developer opportunity in Canada (if we do say so ourselves). Float is looking for exceptional Senior Full Stack Developers to build simple, elegant, and highly intuitive products for our SMB customers. Developers hired will play a critical role in building products used every day for Float's growing customer base.

In this role, you'll be responsible for building and enabling credit products for our customers that are dependent on their financial profile, real-time account balances, monthly spending, and working capital needs. You'll have the opportunity to enable the growth of a diverse cross-section of Canadian businesses through your work.

You will work with small cross-functional teams (squads of 5-8 people in product, engineering, design and ops) and will have extreme ownership over your product vertical. Squads will have everything they need to move quickly, be innovative, decisive and quickly ship high-quality products and features.

If you'd like to know more about Engineering @ Float, read up on our Engineering Principles.

What your week-to-week looks like:

• Build and evolve a highly intuitive product that is used by Finance teams and employees.
• Develop smart graphs in data visualizations for users to evaluate their spend.
• Create transaction filter views by any characteristic like department, new user, category, card, etc.
• Develop a new code approval workflow for users - Imagine drag and drop expense approvals!
• Create smarter ways for users to leverage our integration with Slack and accounting software.

Requirements

You'll be great in this role if:

• You have exceptional ability. This comes first, we're looking for developers with exceptional ability. Regardless if you have any of the other points listed below.
• You've got the experience. To be successful in this role, we're looking for 5+ years of Full Stack development experience in a B2B SaaS environment.
• You're mission-driven. You are motivated by the company vision, mission and culture, and approach each problem with curiosity, empathy, and a sense of urgency
• You've got experience with our techstack. Python/Django, Typescript/React, Go, AWS.
• You're motivated by being a leader. You have a track record of shipping high-quality products and features at scale. You take ownership over your work and master your craft as an IC.
• You're eager to continue your own learning. Scrappy and voracious, you want to know the 'why' behind every answer.
• You believe the customer comes first. You'll advocate endlessly for our customers, and have a natural curiosity to understand their needs.

This role won't be a fit if:

• You don't like change and adapting to new ways of doing things.
• You want a very organized and predictable day to day.
• You aren't comfortable with ambiguity.
• You want detailed to-dos for your tasks and projects.

Don't meet every single requirement? If you're excited about this role, and you strongly align with our values but your past experience doesn't align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be the right candidate for this, or other future positions.

Benefits

...and perks of working at Float:

• Competitive compensation & total rewards
• Flexible work hours and time off when you need to recharge
• Small team = lots of autonomy to make an impact
• Opportunity to work with and learn from a world-class team
• A personal Float card with a monthly stipend to spend on what matters most to you
• A dog-friendly office
• Being able to say you helped build Canada's best corporate card and spend management platform