Engineering Manager & Product Lead, Float Intelligence
Core
Founding Lead owning Float Intelligence, an agentic AI finance product that automates transaction coding, receipt chasing, policy checking, and invoice gathering for Canadian businesses.
Role type
Founding Lead (Hybrid Engineering Manager & Product Lead)
Builds
Agentic AI finance experiences, shared platform layer for extraction/evaluation/agents, and new customer-facing surfaces.
Domain
Fintech / AI / LLMs
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
7+ years software engineering (senior/staff level), 2+ years managing engineers, hands-on AI/LLM product shipping (0→1), 0→1 product building or founding experience, production AI infrastructure expertise (evaluation, scale, latency, cost), product roadmap ownership, cross-team alignment without formal authority
Preferred skills
fine-tuning models, data science or ML engineering background
Technologies
LLMs, agent frameworks, prompt engineering, data pipelines
Responsibilities
Lead and grow a small team of product and data/ML engineers; own the roadmap for AI experiences alongside Head of Product; take AI products from POC to scale; make technical calls on models, evaluation, and infrastructure; build shared platform layer for extraction, evaluation, observability, and agents; equip internal teams with AI engines; partner with product managers on landing experiences; decide what to stop to focus on high-leverage work
Seniority
Founding Lead, hands-on IC with management responsibilities