Manager in Software Development at Wealthsimple overseeing engineering teams focused on client onboarding and operational excellence. Innovating with technology to improve financial services for millions.
Responsibilities
Build something people love
Help everyone achieve financial freedom by reimagining managing money.
Join a high-bar, fast-paced team where people are trusted to own their work, communicate openly, and ship things that improve clients’ lives.
Drive the department’s operational excellence, improve developer tooling, system reliability, scalability, quality, and monitoring.
Increase the velocity of the department to ship code faster and more confidently and reduce the maintenance cost of systems.
Requirements
Proven experience as a Software Development Manager or in a similar leadership role, managing a team of software engineers.
Strong technical background with the ability to set strategic technical direction, review architecture, and ensure engineering excellence, with a deep focus on DevOps, Developer Tooling, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles.
Expertise in implementing and optimizing CI/CD pipelines, automation, and infrastructure-as-code practices.
Demonstrated experience in people management, including hiring, mentoring, performance management, and career development.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with Product, Design, and other cross-functional stakeholders.
Familiarity with modern web/service architectures (e.g., Ruby, SQL, JavaScript/React, Java/Kotlin, GraphQL) with hands-on experience in building and operating scalable, reliable systems, monitoring, logging, and performance analysis.
Benefits
Top-tier health benefits and life insurance
Long-term group savings with employer match using our Wealthsimple for Business platform
20 vacation days + 4 wellness days per year, and unlimited sick and mental health days
90 days away program: Employees can work outside of Canada for up to 90 days per calendar year
A wide variety of peer and company-led Employee Resources Groups (e.g., Rainbow, Women of Wealthsimple, Black @ WS)
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