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About the role

  • 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)

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

CA$196,000 - CA$245,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

GraphQLJavaJavaScriptKotlinReactRubySQL

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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