What it’s like to work with us
What’s better than enjoying what you do for a living?
The answer is simple: Doing what you do with an award-winning company that values and embraces who you are, your talents, and helps you flourish both at work and in life. A company where collaboration, inclusivity, fairness, and respect aren’t just ideas that get talked about, but are part of who we are. If such a workplace intrigues you, we hope you’ll join us.
Benefits & Perks
Work where you work best
At home, in the office, or a mixture of the two locations, when you work in your optimal setting, we all win. Learn more about our hybrid policy here.
Time for what matters
From vacation and personal days, to volunteer and sick days, life in and out of work is better when you can take time away.
Health & Wellness
Look after your health with our extended health care coverage, Employee & Family Assistance Program (EFAP), Lifestyle Spending Account, gym membership discounts, and virtual yoga, fitness and meditation classes.
RRSP Matching and Parental leave
At Financeit, we care about your financial wellbeing – enjoy our RRSP matching and parental leave top up programs.
A culture with causes
Habitat for Humanity and Shelter Movers are just two causes we support, alongside others that are company wide fundraising initiatives.
Foster your career path
Nurture your career growth and skills with company-supported courses, workshops, coaching sessions, and more.
Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging
It takes an organization-wide commitment to meaningfully achieve diversity, inclusion and belonging (DIB). At Financeit, we’re all in because it matters to us all. Our DIB Committee promotes opportunities, education, and initiatives that foster an inclusive culture where everyone is welcome, celebrated, and at ease to be who they are. Our goal is simple: We aim to be an employer of choice for diverse talent.
Where We Gather: The Well
Conveniently located in downtown Toronto, our newly built office is a stone’s throw from the lake, shops, restaurants, and transit. Union Station is a short 15-minute walk away, and for cyclists there are bike racks and showers to freshen up. The space is fully accessible and features hotel seating, collaboration spaces, a wellness room, lockers, and a well-stocked kitchen. Plus, there’s foosball, arcade, and board games to help keep it fun! Check out a 3D tour of our office here.
Open Positions:
Data QA Engineer, Remote
About the role:
We are seeking a skilled and detail-oriented Data QA Engineer to join our team. As a Data QA Engineer, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the quality and accuracy of our data assets. You will be responsible for designing, implementing, and executing data testing strategies, as well as identifying and addressing data quality issues. Your expertise in data validation, SQL, and automation practices will contribute to the overall data integrity and reliability of our systems.What you’ll do:
- Design and execute data testing strategies to ensure the accuracy, completeness, and reliability of data across various systems and databases
- Develop, execute and maintain test cases and test scripts for data validation, data integration, and data transformation processes
- Collaborate with data engineers to understand data requirements, business rules and data transformations
- Work closely with cross-functional teams to define and enforce data quality standards, best practices, and data governance policies
- Investigate and troubleshoot data-related issues, identify root causes, and propose effective solutions and preventive measures
- Develop and maintain data testing frameworks and automation scripts to streamline data testing processes and improve efficiency
- Participate in data migration projects, ensuring data quality and integrity during the migration process
- Stay up-to-date with industry trends, advancements in data quality tools, and emerging technologies related to data quality assurance
- Contribute to process improvements, documentation, and knowledge sharing within the data quality assurance team
- 4+ years of experience with Data QA (data, automation, defect, regression)
- Strong SQL skills to carry out data validations
- Write test cases, perform QA and participate with stakeholders on UAT
- Experience building data testing automation frameworks
- Passionate about the data space and automation, must be keeping up with latest technologies
- Willingness to learn new technologies and technical skills
- Follow and manage best practices and standards for data quality, scalability, reliability, and reusability
- Familiarity with dbt (data build tool), data warehouses, Looker, Airflow
- Good working knowledge of agile delivery techniques
- Experience in design, development, and maintenance of automation scripts
- Great fit if these concepts excite you: column level lineage, incremental materialization, data diff, deployment testing, data migrations, ELT
Winner of Canada’s Most Admired Corporate Culture in 2018 and 2021, we offer more than just the basics. Take advantage of:
- An award-winning culture with a collaborative & inclusive team
- Competitive pay and performance based bonus
- Committed to flexible work arrangements, offering fully remote and hybrid workplace options
- Comprehensive medical, dental and vision coverage + Lifestyle Account.
- RRSP Matching and Parental Leave Top Up Program
- Weekly virtual yoga classes, meditation & workout sessions
- Virtual events such as Lunch & Learns, company parties, fun team activities and charity initiatives
- Career learning and development programs
Product Support Manager
About the role:
We are looking for a talented Product Support Manager who is highly driven and a tremendously organized team player with a positive attitude. You understand the needs of our product users and have the judgment and technical know-how to understand what is truly important vs. nice-to-haves. This position will report directly to the Senior Product Support Manager and collaborates closely with both the Technology and Business teams.What you’ll do:
- Responsible for keeping the lights on and supporting a development roadmap prioritizing site security, performance, and availability
- Managing solutions focused on production and maintenance support for the Financeit system, including the resolution of live issues
- Triage all incoming defects and enhancement requests that flow through the Jira system to ensure that each request is well-defined, prioritized and assigned to the appropriate team member
- Ensuring that delivery expectations are managed to stakeholders who report each request
- Track and report on the velocity and classifications of requests that are requested and resolved on a weekly and quarterly basis
- Work with the operations, risk, compliance, finance, and sales teams to truly understand the root of a request and help define and develop long term solutions vs. quick fixes
- Responsible for documenting and communicating root cause analysis for product software issues causing major loss of service
- Be a direct contact for third-party vendors and monitor external service stability
- Maintain a pulse on all the internal users of our product and know their top priorities to ensure they make it to the top of the backlog list that you will maintain for your team to develop when urgent reactive requests are quiet
- Minimum of 3 years of experience in a Technical Product Management, Service Management, or Support Manager role
- Experience managing a support or development team
- Experience managing stakeholders in a Product Support role
- Ability to multitask and meet deadlines under pressure
- Development background is an asset
Winner of Canada’s Most Admired Corporate Culture in 2018 and 2021, we offer more than just the basics. Take advantage of:
- An award-winning culture with a collaborative & inclusive team
- Competitive pay and performance based bonus
- Committed to flexible work arrangements, offering fully remote and hybrid workplace options
- Comprehensive medical, dental and vision coverage + Lifestyle Account.
- RRSP Matching and Parental Leave Top Up Program
- Weekly virtual yoga classes, meditation & workout sessions
- Virtual events such as Lunch & Learns, company parties, fun team activities and charity initiatives
- Career learning and development programs
Technical Product Owner
About the role:
We are looking for individuals to lead cross-functional agile teams in building the next iteration of our market leading platform. You will help your team ship the right products for our customers. You’re a detail oriented and analytical team player with a positive attitude and the experience to lead product development teams through all stages of the product lifecycle. You are also comfortable multi-tasking in a fast-paced environment, and hold yourself accountable for results.What you’ll do:
- Work closely with Product Management and Stakeholders to create and groom a product backlog
- Provide backlog prioritization, sprint planning, and elaboration of the upcoming sprint priorities to ensure team work is focused on delivering maximum value at any given time
- Liaise with internal stakeholders including UX, Finance, Legal, and Compliance to deliver product in a regulated industry
- Lead a product ‘pod’ consisting of Developers, Quality Assurance and shared UX Designers in an agile product development cycle to facilitate timely iterative delivery
- Collaborate with the team through the process of figuring out “how” a feature/story will be developed, including the breaking down of stories/requirements into technical tasks and effort estimation
- Facilitate daily stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospective and sprint demos
- Monitor, track and provide outward communication for improved transparency on the team’s progress against their delivery goals
- Collaborate with our Agile Coaches in guiding the team through the process of getting the best out of Agile collaboration and organization tools (Jira) and rituals (stand ups, retrospectives, etc) and in shielding the team from outside distractions
- Minimum of 3 years of experience in product management, business analysis, or software development management
- Minimum of 2 years leading dev teams in an Agile environment through continuous delivery of product roadmaps
- Knowledge and/or experience of Kanban, Scrum Methodologies, Extreme Programming and other team level Agile frameworks
- Direct experience building out complex Web/SaaS platforms for the banking / lending/ FinTech industry
- Direct experience integrating automation platforms and proven track record in process improvement a big plus
- Direct experience integrating with with 3rd party vendors / partners via API communications
- A knack for understanding customer needs and translating them into amazing products
- Analytical and meticulous - can easily find the edge cases when developing business requirements
- Exceptional written and in-person presentation skills
- Attention to detail and the tenacity to make sure quality standards are high
- Ability to work with other disciplines to help make barriers disappear
Winner of Canada’s Most Admired Corporate Culture in 2018 and 2021, we offer more than just the basics. Take advantage of:
- An award-winning culture with a collaborative & inclusive team
- Competitive pay and performance based bonus
- Committed to flexible work arrangements, offering fully remote and hybrid workplace options
- Comprehensive medical, dental and vision coverage + Lifestyle Account.
- RRSP Matching and Parental Leave Top Up Program
- Weekly virtual yoga classes, meditation & workout sessions
- Virtual events such as Lunch & Learns, company parties, fun team activities and charity initiatives
- Career learning and development programs
Back End Engineer (Software Developer) Ruby on Rails
About the role:
Our Development team is searching for a Back End Engineer (Software Developer) to join the Financeit team and to help our company in pursuit of our vision and goals! If you are looking for an exciting opportunity to join a fast-growing fintech company where your development work will make a difference, you’ve found the right place! We are looking for developers who value continuous learning and development, collaboration with the team, and of course the quality of their code. Ideally, you also have experience with our core technologies including Ruby on Rails (RoR). Click here to learn more about our Software Development team: https://www.financeit.io/learn-more-about-the-tech...What you’ll do:
- Designing and writing clean, testable, and maintainable code
- Delivering new features, fixing defects, and improving the existing codebase
- Working closely with other Developers, Product Managers, Designers, Testers and Business Stakeholders to understand and gather requirements
- 1-3 years of experience as a back end developer with Ruby on Rails (RoR)
- Familiarity with Elasticsearch, Redis, RDBMS/SQL, or other persistence technologies
- Proficient in HTML, CSS, JavaScript
- Knowledge of CI / CD systems will be considered an asset
- Familiarity with developing for cloud (AWS / Azure / Google) will be considered an asset
- Curiosity and excitement about technology and continuous learning and development
- Strong interpersonal and organizational skills
- Desire to deliver work in an agile environment
Winner of Canada’s Most Admired Corporate Culture in 2018 and 2021, we offer more than just the basics. Take advantage of:
- An award-winning culture with a collaborative & inclusive team
- Competitive pay and performance based bonus
- Committed to flexible work arrangements, offering fully remote and hybrid workplace options
- Comprehensive medical, dental and vision coverage + Lifestyle Account.
- RRSP Matching and Parental Leave Top Up Program
- Weekly virtual yoga classes, meditation & workout sessions
- Virtual events such as Lunch & Learns, company parties, fun team activities and charity initiatives
- Career learning and development programs
Financial Analyst/Sr. Financial Analyst
About the role:
Do you want an exciting career in one of the fastest growing companies in the FinTech industry? Do you want to be part of an innovative, entrepreneurial team that disrupts the financial and business services space? Do you want to be challenged and influence change in a fast-paced environment? If you’ve answered yes to all of the above, we want to hear from you! We are looking for an experienced finance professional with a proven track record for producing accurate and timely results (or an exceptional recent graduate with a strong history of community involvement). This position will report to the Manager of FP&A and have responsibility for supporting all parts of our budgeting process, management reporting, as well as ad-hoc reporting and corporate development functions.What you’ll do:
- Assist in the annual budgeting and quarterly reforecasting process
- Perform detailed month end variance analysis, complete with commentary and recommendations
- Identify and monitor trends, utilize data and perform analysis with financial modeling to drive business decisions
- Produce timely and accurate KPI reports with clear, concise, and meaningful analysis
- Assist with the preparation of Board reporting packages as well as Investor and Lender decks
- Work in cross-functional teams and interact directly with all levels of the Leadership team, from directors to executives
- Assist the Manager of Finance with range of tasks including the loan portfolio reconciliations, lender reporting, the annual audit and looking for efficiencies across the team’s processes in general
- Assist on Corporate Development opportunities as they arise.
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field and looking to complete a CPA/CFA designation
- Superior Excel skills required (complex formulas, advanced functions, tables/pivot tables). Experience with financial modelling is an asset.
- Experience with accounting systems an asset
- Experience in financial analysis - preferably in financial services, audit, or capital markets is an asset
- Experience with budgeting and forecasting is an asset
- Takes initiative and is able to perform in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to work independently with minimal guidance to meet corporate and team objectives
- Solid two-way communication skills, both verbal and written
- Strong attention to detail and intellectual curiosity
Winner of Canada’s Most Admired Corporate Culture in 2018 and 2021, we offer more than just the basics. Take advantage of:
- An award-winning culture with a collaborative & inclusive team
- Competitive pay and performance based bonus
- Committed to flexible work arrangements, offering fully remote and hybrid workplace options, as well as a hybrid working allowance
- Comprehensive medical, dental and vision coverage + Lifestyle Account.
- RRSP Matching and Parental Leave Top Up Program
- Weekly virtual yoga classes, meditation & workout sessions
- Virtual events such as Lunch & Learns, company parties, fun team activities and charity initiatives
- Career learning and development programs
Collections Specialist, Bilingual (French), Remote
About the role:
We are looking for a seasoned Bilingual Collections Specialist (English/French) to join our team. This role is responsible for resolving outstanding accounts from existing customers, resolving billing problems and reducing delinquencies.
We are committed to flexible work arrangements, offering fully remote and hybrid workplace options.
What you’ll do:
- Negotiate payment of debts in accordance with client and company guidelines
- Reduce aging and balance delinquencies
- Conduct skip tracing
- Coordinate outbound collection letters
- Suggest improvements on operational processes and establish best practices
- Produce reports, analyze data, identify trends, and provide recommendations
- Identify and escalate risks as well as potential fraud
- Update and document collection files with detailed information from clients, customers, agencies, and maintain professional communications
- Support the collections team and management on all objectives
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience as a proven collections expert in a banking or agency setting
- Bilingualism in English and French is required
- Strong understanding of consumer credit (secured and unsecured)
- Proven track record of curing difficult accounts
- Excellent collections, skip tracing, and negotiation skills
- Excellent customer service skills and de-escalation abilities
- Thorough understanding of all privacy and collection laws
- Repossession and PPSA experience is an asset
- Proficient in Word, Excel, PPT, Google solutions – Chrome, Docs, Mail, Calendar, etc.
- Salesforce experience considered an asset
- Availability to work evening shifts (until 9pm), and on Saturdays on a rotating schedule
Winner of Canada’s Most Admired Corporate Culture in 2018 and 2021, we offer more than just the basics. Take advantage of:
- An award-winning culture with a collaborative & inclusive team
- Competitive pay and performance based bonus
- Committed to flexible work arrangements, offering fully remote and hybrid workplace options, as well as a hybrid working allowance
- Comprehensive medical, dental and vision coverage + Lifestyle Account
- RRSP Matching and Parental Leave Top Up Program
- Weekly virtual yoga classes, meditation & workout sessions
- Virtual events such as Lunch & Learns, company parties, fun team activities and charity initiatives
- Career learning and development programs
DevOps Engineer, AWS, Remote
About the role:
As a Devops Engineer, you have deep technical knowledge, with at least 4 years of experience in DevOps work in AWS, Containerized Workloads, GitOps, and Linux Systems administration. You are a developer first, systems administrator second. At Financeit you will be working on the DevOps team to help support the uptime SLAs of our cloud infrastructures, support the DevOps automation goals and roadmaps, and other activities as described below. You will be joining a high flying team seeing enormous success in the market!Core Responsibilities:
- Manage and administer EKS cluster and related QA infrastructure
- Manage and optimize CI/CD pipelines to reduce build time
- Infrastructure Monitoring - responding to system alerts and resolving them
- Server Setup Configuration and Administration using AWS Cloudformation, Ansible, Terraform, Chef
- MySQL and Postgresql Setup and Administration
- Systems Security Audit and Systems Capacity Planning
- Participate in Cybersecurity training and become a champion to support Financeit’s Security and Availability initiatives
- Creating internal tools and processes that will increase developer and QA productivity
- Implement change requests during on or off work hours
- Respond to alerts or tickets concerning servers
- Perform System Patches and Upgrades
- Proficiency in containerization and running/managing containerized workloads on Kubernetes (EKS)
- Deep knowledge in AWS services such as EC2, RDS, Elasticache, VPC, IAM, Opensearch
- Curious and deep interest in fast and reliable developer/QA experience in the organization
- Proficiency with Terraform, AWS Cloudformation and Ansible (Chef or Puppet proficiency also a plus)
- Proficiency with Amazon Code Deploy, Gitlab, Jenkins, Github Actions, and various CI/CD platforms
- Minimum of 3 years experience with Systems Linux Administration
- Experience managing modern firewalls like AWS Security Groups, WAF, Intrusion Detection
- Expert level experience (2-3 years) with Postgresql including replication, monitoring, and database server tuning
- Minimum of 4 years Experience with writing Bash scripts, Python, Ruby, NodeJS as well as using any language to automate server related tasks
- Experience with GitOps and related tools like ArgoCD/Flux
- Must have a deep knowledge and interest on the Star Wars and MCU Universes
Winner of Canada’s Most Admired Corporate Culture in 2018 and 2021, we offer more than just the basics. Take advantage of:
- An award-winning culture with a collaborative & inclusive team
- Competitive pay and performance based bonus
- Committed to flexible work arrangements, offering fully remote and hybrid workplace options, as well as a hybrid working allowance
- Comprehensive medical, dental and vision coverage + Lifestyle Account.
- RRSP Matching and Parental Leave Top Up Program
- Weekly virtual yoga classes, meditation & workout sessions
- Virtual events such as Lunch & Learns, company parties, fun team activities and charity initiatives
- Career learning and development programs
Not what you are looking for?
Not to worry. We’re always on the lookout for talented people. Tell us why you’d be a great fit at humanresources@financeit.io
Financeit is committed to providing a barrier-free environment for our current and future employees. Applicants needing accommodation in the recruitment and interview process are invited to contact us directly and confidentially about their accommodation needs. Learn more about Accessibility at Financeit here.