Senior Software Engineer (Multiple Teams)

• Our Engineering team is at the heart of building banking products that help millions of small businesses succeed. We’re on a journey to reinvent banking, and we’re looking for Senior Software Engineer II to help set the technical direction for how we get there. You’ll take on our highest-risk, most ambiguous work, spot the problems that matter before anyone assigns them, and bring teams together around solutions that move the business forward
• This is a unique opportunity to shape architecture across interconnected systems, raise the engineering bar beyond your own team, and grow the next generation of technical leaders at Relay. If you’re excited about building best-in-class fintech products and multiplying your impact through others, this is the role for you
• Technical Direction: Lead architecture and the highest-risk work across interconnected systems, and set practical standards for quality, reliability, security, and maintainability
• Cross-Team Delivery: Own ambiguous, cross-team initiatives from problem definition through measurable outcomes by setting priorities, resolving dependencies, and keeping execution moving
• Product Judgment: Find important problems before they’re assigned, and tie technical decisions to customer needs, business priorities, cost, and risk
• Cross-Team Influence: Align teams with different priorities using context, evidence, and sound judgment rather than formal authority
• Organizational Improvement: Create practices, tooling, documentation, and guardrails that improve delivery and operational effectiveness across Engineering
• Developing Others: Coach engineers and delegate meaningful ownership so you create more technical leaders instead of becoming a bottleneck
• 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

Benefits

• Competitive salary and meaningful equity: Relay employees are Relay owners, complete with equity and a competitive salary. Since 2023, 66%+ of employees have received salary increases, with multiple new team members joining just last year.
• Social connection: We believe in celebrating our wins with two annual company-wide get-togethers, quarterly team events, happy hours, and special events and networking opportunities with industry leaders.
• Personal and professional growth: Through ongoing feedback, mentorship, and coaching, work with peers and leaders who are invested in your growth and success. Even with more than half of our team joining in the last 12 months, almost 20% have received promotions in the last year alone.
• Parental leave with top-up: We offer 12 weeks off with a 100% salary top-up for all full-time employees, regardless of location, and accessible for all parents: birthing, non-birthing, and adoptive
• Comprehensive health benefits: Enjoy full health benefits from day one: no probation period required. We offer flexible Health or Wellness Spending Accounts and medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents.
• Hybrid work environment: We value meaningful collaboration and connection at our Toronto office three days per week, with lunch, snacks, and beverages on us.
• Top-tier equipment: As a Mac-first company, our Toronto offices have everything you need to produce your best work comfortably, from multiple screens to ergonomic seating.
• Flexible vacation and time off: Every team member starts with 15 vacation days and 5 flex days to use as needed, plus an extra week of office closure during the end-of-year holidays.
• Dog-friendly space: Can dogs really make you happy and healthy? We don’t know for sure, but since we don’t want to chance it, our office is 100% floof-friendly.
• Award-winning workplace: As a winner of CB Insights’ Fintech 100, Deloitte Canada’s Technology Fast 50, Forbes Fintech 50, and the CIX Top 10 Growth Award, Relay is a recognized innovative and high-growth company.- You thrive in fast-paced, dynamic environments and are comfortable navigating ambiguity and change
• You have driven cross-team initiatives from an ambiguous problem to measurable results
• You have led architecture for complex, interconnected systems and owned the highest-risk technical decisions
• You grow engineers by coaching and delegating real ownership, and you measure your success by the leaders you develop
• You connect technical trade-offs to customer impact, business priorities, cost, and risk
• You have created standards, tooling, or processes that improved how teams beyond your own deliver and operate
• You influence without authority, aligning teams and stakeholders through context and evidence
• Have worked in startups or high-growth tech companies
• Have experience with JavaScript (we primarily use TypeScript, React, and Node.js)
• Have working knowledge of AWS services (ECS, S3, RDS, Dynamo, Lambda) and continuous deployment pipelines
• Have experience in fintech, banking, or other regulated environments
• You own your work: You take pride in your work, follow through on commitments, and feel a deep sense of responsibility for outcomes, not just tasks
• You build with AI, not just use it: You’re actively embedding AI into how you work, pushing what’s possible, and bringing your team along with you
• You push relentlessly for reinvention: You’re always asking “how can this be better?” — in your work, in your craft, in yourself. Comfort is a signal to push harder, not coast. You’d rather build something better than defend something familiar
• You crave autonomy: We trust our team with big challenges and the freedom to solve them. If you’re someone who takes initiative, is comfortable taking risks, and seeks input when needed, you’ll find the freedom here empowering
• You care about impact, not noise: You care deeply about the substance of your work. You measure success by results, not recognition, and you let your work speak for itself
• Small businesses are why we’re here: Relay exists to help them thrive — and that mission has to resonate with you
• You seek out feedback: You see directness as respect, not criticism. You actively seek input, sit with hard truths, and use feedback as fuel for improvement
• You’re energized by complexity and ambiguity: You enjoy tackling problems that don’t come with a playbook. You’re comfortable building from scratch, iterating as you go, and collaborating to shape the best path forward
• You’re encouraged to apply even if your experience doesn’t perfectly match the job description — your perspective and drive matter more. We welcome diverse backgrounds and people who think critically, challenge the status quo, and want to help small businesses thrive- Stage 1: A 45-minute Google Meet video call with a member of the Talent team
• Stage 2: A 60-minute live coding exercise with two members of the Engineering team
• Stage 3: A 60-minute Google Meet video call with two Engineering Leaders
• Stage 4: A take-home system design challenge, followed by a 60-minute Google Meet video call review with two members of the Engineering team
• Stage 5: A 45-minute in-person interview with a member of the Leadership team