Senior Software Engineer II, Multiple Teams

Relay is a digital banking platform that gives self-made business owners the tools and know-how to be great with money—bringing clarity, confidence, and control to every dollar earned, so they can turn hard work into lasting success. We do this by replacing financial guesswork with real visibility, transforming cash flow from a constant source of stress into a clear signal owners can use to run stronger, more resilient businesses.

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.

What You'll Be Doing

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

Who You Are

You have led architecture for complex, interconnected systems and owned the highest-risk technical decisions

You have driven cross-team initiatives from an ambiguous problem to measurable results

You connect technical trade-offs to customer impact, business priorities, cost, and risk

You influence without authority, aligning teams and stakeholders through context and evidence

You have created standards, tooling, or processes that improved how teams beyond your own deliver and operate

You grow engineers by coaching and delegating real ownership, and you measure your success by the leaders you develop

You thrive in fast-paced, dynamic environments and are comfortable navigating ambiguity and change

It's a bonus (but not required) if you

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

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

The Interview Process

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

Our Compensation Approach We believe Relayers should feel rewarded for the impact they have on our mission and growth. Compensation follows impact. As impact increases, compensation grows, and we do not limit compensation changes to a once-a-year review cycle.

The annual salary range for this role is

$175,500 CAD to $214,500 CAD .

For candidates who demonstrate full readiness for the defined scope of the role, the typical starting salary is

$195,000 CAD . Offers below this point reflect candidates we believe can grow into the full scope of the role with support and development. Offers above this point reflect impact that mean