Role overview

Wealthsimple is Canada’s leading financial technology company serving over 4 million Canadians with managed investing, trading, cryptocurrency, tax filing, and spending products. As a Software Development Manager for Institutional Transfers, you’ll lead one of two engineering teams responsible for making it seamless for clients to move their investments to and from Wealthsimple, managing the complex systems and processes that power thousands of account transfers daily.

Key responsibilities

Build and grow a high-performing, inclusive team through hiring, coaching, feedback, career development, and performance management.
Set technical direction and roadmap with Product and Design, balancing new capabilities against reliability, maintainability, and operational health.
Ensure the scalability and reliability of the transfer platform and operational tooling that supports the transfers team.
Partner with Operations and Customer Experience teams to automate manual work and improve accuracy, transparency, and speed of transfer processes.
Lead your team in building new ways for clients to move accounts to Wealthsimple using data-driven approaches and rapid iteration.
Promote strong engineering practices including design, code review, testing, observability, documentation, on-call processes, and incident response.
Work across multiple teams including Bank and Brokerage Linking, Infrastructure, Security, and SRE to resolve dependencies and deliver end-to-end outcomes.

Requirements

Experience managing and developing software engineering teams, including hiring, mentoring, and performance management.
Technical depth in production software development and distributed systems with judgment to guide architecture and implementation decisions.
Experience delivering reliable products with cross-functional partners in complex or regulated environments.
Practical understanding of modern backend and frontend systems, relational databases, event-driven architectures, and cloud infrastructure.
Strong communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Commitment to inclusive leadership, operational excellence, and continuous improvement.
Comfort supporting a team through on-call duties and system maintenance.

What makes this role worth considering

You’ll join Wealthsimple’s Data & Engineering department as part of a newly formed team with significant business and client impact. The role offers the opportunity to shape technical direction and help build systems supporting a rapidly scaling platform, while working with talented, driven teammates across North America in a hybrid environment.

Wealthsimple offers comprehensive benefits including top-tier health coverage, group savings with employer match, 20 vacation days plus 4 wellness days and unlimited sick leave, the ability to work outside Canada for up to 90 days annually, and active employee resource groups supporting diverse team members.