Wealthsimple is hiring a Manager, Software Development

Wealthsimple is looking for a Manager, Software Development to lead the Engineering Enablement team within our Clients & Accounts domain. You will accelerate delivery and enhance reliability for all other engineering teams in the domain, driving operational excellence and improving developer tooling, system reliability, and scalability to increase department velocity.

What You'll Do

• Manage a team of software engineers focused on DevOps, Developer Tooling, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles.
• Set strategic technical direction, review architecture, and ensure engineering excellence for the enablement team.
• 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.
• Reduce the maintenance cost of systems.
• Function as a liaison to the Infrastructure Platform (Infraplat) department.
• Improve system observability and operational processes.

What We're Looking For

• 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.
• 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).
• Hands-on experience in building and operating scalable, reliable systems, monitoring, logging, and performance analysis.

Technical Stack

• Ruby
• SQL
• JavaScript/React
• Java/Kotlin
• GraphQL

Team & Environment

You will lead the Engineering Enablement team within the Clients & Accounts domain.

Benefits & Compensation

• Top-tier health benefits and life insurance.
• Long-term group savings with employer match using the Wealthsimple for Business platform.
• 20 vacation days + 4 wellness days per year.
• Unlimited sick and mental health days.
• 90 days away program: work outside of Canada for up to 90 days per calendar year.
• A wide variety of peer and company-led Employee Resource Groups.

Work Mode

This is a remote-first position open to candidates in North America.

At Wealthsimple, we are building products for a diverse world and we need a diverse team to do that successfully. We strongly encourage applications from everyone regardless of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status.