Software Development Manager (Institutional Transfers)

• 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
• 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
• What success looks like:
• In your first six months, you’ll have built strong relationships with your team and partners, established clear goals and development plans, understood the health of the team’s systems and operations, and helped shape a roadmap that improves reliability, delivery, and the client or operational experience

Benefits

• Retirement savings matching plan through Wealthsimple Work
• Company equity for full-time employees
• Access to Premium Client perks, including personal finance learning & advice and a boosted interest rate on deposits
• Paid parental leave (6 months topped up to 100% of salary)
• 20 vacation days per year
• 90 Days Away program
• Top-tier health benefits
• Life & disability insurance
• Generous sick and mental health days
• Up to $5,000 per year for mental health supports
• Employee resource plan including services like RMT, psychology, and physiotherapy
• Gender Affirmation benefits
• Up to $1,500 per year for professional development
• Up to $1,500 per year for wellness and home office expenses
• Employee resource groups
• Social impact hours

• A practical understanding of modern backend and frontend systems, relational databases (SQL), event-driven architectures, and cloud infrastructure
• Technical depth in production software development and distributed systems, with the judgment to guide architecture and implementation decisions
• Comfort supporting a team through on-call duties and system maintenance
• A strong commitment to inclusive leadership, operational excellence, and continuous improvement — including improving team documentation and making meaningful improvements to the codebase
• Effectiveness at communicating with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Experience managing and developing software engineering teams, including hiring, mentoring, feedback, and performance management
• Experience delivering reliable products with cross-functional partners in a complex or regulated environment
• Experience with Java, Kotlin, Python, or mobile development
• Experience with Ruby on Rails, React or React Native, GraphQL, Kafka, Temporal, Kubernetes, AWS, Datadog, or Sentry
• Experience in fintech, banking, brokerage, or other systems that handle sensitive financial data
• Familiarity with institutional transfer rails such as ATON or Fundserv