[Hiring] Software Development Manager @Wealthsimple Technologies

Role Description

As an Engineering Manager, you'll lead a team of software developers while helping shape the technical direction, delivery strategy, and culture of Institutional Transfers. You'll balance near-term client and operational impact with long-term investments in reliability, scalability, and developer effectiveness. Reporting to an Engineering Director, you'll contribute to the broader engineering leadership community and help build systems that support thousands of account transfers each day. You'll also have the opportunity to help shape newly formed teams with significant business and client impact.

In this role you'll have the opportunity to:

• Build and grow a high-performing, inclusive team through hiring, coaching, feedback, career development, and thoughtful performance management.
• Set a clear technical direction and roadmap with Product and Design, balancing new capabilities with reliability, maintainability, and operational health.
• Ensure the scalability and reliability of the transfer platform and the tools that support our operations teams.
• Partner with Operations and CX to automate manual work — through both traditional software and modern technologies — and improve the accuracy, transparency, and speed of transfer processes.
• Help your team build new ways for clients to move their accounts to Wealthsimple, operating in data-driven environments and using that data to iterate quickly.
• Promote strong engineering practices, including thoughtful design, code review, testing, observability, documentation, healthy on-call, and effective incident response.
• Champion the use of AI-first development tools to materially improve your team's output.
• Work across Institutional Transfers, Bank and Brokerage Linking, Infrastructure, Security, SRE, and other teams to resolve dependencies and deliver end-to-end outcomes.
• Keep on top of industry best practices and standards that benefit our engineering organization, and hold teams accountable to them.

Qualifications

• Experience managing and developing software engineering teams, including hiring, mentoring, feedback, and performance management.
• Technical depth in production software development and distributed systems, with the judgment to guide architecture and implementation decisions.
• Experience delivering reliable products with cross-functional partners in a complex or regulated environment.
• A practical understanding of modern backend and frontend systems, relational databases (SQL), event-driven architectures, and cloud infrastructure.
• Effectiveness at communicating with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• A strong commitment to inclusive leadership, operational excellence, and continuous improvement — including improving team documentation and making meaningful improvements to the codebase.
• Comfort supporting a team through on-call duties and system maintenance.

Requirements

• Experience with Ruby on Rails, React or React Native, GraphQL, Kafka, Temporal, Kubernetes, AWS, Datadog, or Sentry.
• Experience with Java, Kotlin, Python, or mobile development.
• Experience in fintech, banking, brokerage, or other systems that handle sensitive financial data.
• Familiarity with institutional transfer rails such as ATON or Fundserv.

Benefits

• 🌸 Top-tier health benefits and life insurance
• 📈 Long-term group savings with employer match, through Wealthsimple for Business
• 🌴 20 vacation days, 4 wellness days, and unlimited sick and mental health days per year*
• ✈️ 90 days away: work outside Canada for up to 90 days per year*
• 👥 Employee resource groups, including Rainbow (2SLGBTQ), Women of WS, and Black at WS
• 🌎 We are a hybrid team with over 1,500 employees across North America.