KOHO
KOHO
KOHO is a Canadian fintech company developing digital tools for everyday money management. Its platform brings together a prepaid Mastercard, cashback, savings features, cash advances, credit-building tools, budgeting support, and payment splitting, with customizable plans designed around different financial needs. KOHO’s products focus on helping users spend, save, borrow, and manage their finances through one mobile experience.

Remote Platform Engineering Manager — KOHO, Canada

Lead KOHO’s platform engineering team across mobile releases, web reliability, internal tools, and risk systems. Build a strong developer experience and guide full-stack teams delivering dependable fintech services.

Description

  • Lead KOHO’s full-stack platform team across mobile and web platforms, internal tools, and risk systems.
  • Manage employees and contractors, set clear expectations, support career growth, and build a culture of ownership.
  • Own mobile release workflows, from build pipelines and release trains to app store submissions, phased rollouts, and feature flags.
  • Keep KOHO’s web platform reliable, healthy, and able to scale.
  • Improve frontend development with tooling, shared components, CI/CD, testing, and AI-assisted workflows.
  • Build and maintain internal tools for operations, support, and business teams.
  • Guide risk system ownership with Risk and Compliance partners.
  • Oversee vendor selection and integration, monitor performance and costs, and manage renewals and migrations.
  • Support production stability through observability, on-call rotations, incident response, and technical debt reduction.
  • Work with authentication and authorization teams on mobile and web initiatives.
  • Turn Platform OKRs into a focused quarterly roadmap.
  • Report to the Senior Manager of Platform Engineering and coordinate with Risk, Product, and Security stakeholders.

Requirements

  • At least five years building and operating production software across web or mobile frontends and backend services.
  • One to three years managing an engineering team of three to six people.
  • Proven ability to coach engineers, manage performance, hire, and build an inclusive, high-trust team.
  • Experience owning critical customer-facing or business-critical systems.
  • Experience managing third-party vendors and making build-versus-buy decisions.
  • Ability to turn broad business goals into actionable plans in ambiguous situations.
  • Ability to shape roadmaps, improve team processes, and unblock complex implementations or production issues.
  • Ability to explain technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders and write clear documentation.
  • Experience with mobile CI/CD, release automation, app store processes, and frontend build tooling at consumer scale.
  • Experience delivering internal platforms or administrative tools.
  • Experience in financial services, payments, fraud, identity verification, or authentication and authorization.
  • Knowledge of OAuth/OIDC, SSO, or MFA.
  • Experience with developer tooling, shared components, CI/CD, and self-service platforms.
  • Experience using AI to speed up development, testing, and code review.
  • Experience owning systems end to end, including observability, on-call support, and feature-flagged releases.
  • Hands-on experience with Onfido or Auth0 is a plus.
  • Must be legally eligible to work in Canada.

Benefits

  • Competitive pay and equity.
  • Generous vacation allowance.
  • Wellness days.
  • Flex days.
  • Holiday closure.
  • Remote-first work environment.
  • Coworking support.
  • Annual all-hands retreat.
  • Access to coaching and professional growth programs.
  • Parental leave and salary top-up policies.
  • Comprehensive health benefits.
  • Annual budgets for books, home office setup, phone and internet, AI tools, and professional development.

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