Engineering Manager, Subledger

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Canada.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of Hopper's subledger platform, serving as the main point of contact for technical, accounting, and operational matters.

• Lead, develop, and mentor a team of engineers.

• Establish technical direction and advocate for accuracy within the subledger system.

• Guide the subledger architecture towards simplicity and scalability.

• Ensure precise accounting and comprehensive traceability for both booking and post-booking financial movements.

• Collaborate with the Finance and Accounting teams to convert requirements into system design.

• Work together with Payments, Bookings, Post-Booking, and Data teams on contracts, data models, and migrations.

• Minimize manual reconciliation efforts and eliminate discrepancies at the source.

• Monitor reconciliation accuracy, unmatched transaction rates, close-cycle timelines, and system reliability.

• Conduct regular reviews with Finance and engineering leadership.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 8 years of experience in software engineering.

• At least 2 years of experience managing engineers.

• Experience in fintech, payments, or financial systems is advantageous.

• Proven experience in designing and operating high-volume transactional systems where correctness, idempotency, and auditability are essential.

• Familiarity with double-entry bookkeeping, ledgers, subledgers, reconciliation, and the financial closing process.

• Experience in applying accounting principles to system design.

• A systems-oriented architectural mindset with well-defined invariants, clear abstractions, and automation.

• Experience leading significant refactors or migrations of production financial systems.

• Capability to articulate technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders.

• Strong organizational skills and self-motivation in a rapidly growing environment.

• Located in the Eastern or Central time zone, with daily team overlap.

• Hands-on experience in software engineering management, understanding double-entry accounting concepts in production systems, and familiarity with AI tools, as evaluated in the application process.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary.

• Pre-IPO equity packages.

• 100% employer-paid premiums for group insurance.

• Coverage for life, short-term disability, and long-term disability.

• HSA covering eligible medical and dental expenses.

• Access to Dialogue telemedicine services for employees and their dependents.

• RRSP plan with automatic pre-tax withdrawals per pay period.

• Generous parental leave policy.

• Unlimited paid time off (PTO).

• Carrot Cash travel stipend.

• On-demand co-working space available through FlexDesk.

• Work-from-home stipend.

• Open lines of communication with management and company leadership.