Build something people love Wealthsimple is Canada’s leading financial innovator. The company offers a full suite of easy, sophisticated financial products across managed investing, do-it-yourself trading, cryptocurrency, tax filing, spending and saving. Wealthsimple currently serves more than 4 million Canadians and holds over $155 billion in assets under administration. The company was founded in 2014 by a team of financial experts and technology entrepreneurs, and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

We're the team that makes it effortless for clients to move their investments to and from Wealthsimple. Behind every account transfer is a complex network of institutions, systems, and people — and our job is to make that all feel simple. We power the platform that ensures money moves reliably, efficiently, and transparently for our clients, and we're always growing our product offering so clients can transfer more accounts, in more ways and easier than ever.

We're hiring an Engineering Manager to lead one of our two teams. Transfers Platform owns the foundations that make transfers scalable and observable, including workflow architecture, operational tooling, and automation. Transfers Experience focuses on expanding our product offering so clients can move all types of accounts to Wealthsimple. 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.

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.

Champion the use of AI-first development tools to materially improve your team's output.

Experience managing and developing software engineering teams, including hiring, mentoring, feedback, and performance management.

Technical depth in production software development and distributed systems, with the judgment to guide architecture and implementation decisions.

A practical understanding of modern backend and frontend systems, relational databases (SQL), event-driven architectures, and cloud infrastructure.

Effectiveness at communicating with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

A strong commitment to inclusive leadership, operational excellence,



and continuous improvement — including improving team documentation and making meaningful improvements to the codebase.

Experience with Ruby on Rails, React or React Native, GraphQL, Kafka, Temporal, Kubernetes, AWS, Datadog, or Sentry.

Experience with Java, Kotlin, Python, or mobile development.

Experience in fintech, banking, brokerage, or other systems that handle sensitive financial data.

Familiarity with institutional transfer rails such as ATON or Fundserv.

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.

Top-tier health benefits and life insurance

Long-term group savings with employer match, through Wealthsimple for Business

20 vacation days, 4 wellness days, and unlimited sick and mental health days per year*

Employee resource groups, including Rainbow (2SLGBTQ), Women of WS, and Black at WS

Technology & Innovation at Wealthsimple: That means we're always looking for better ways to work — whether that's new tools, AI, or rethinking how we approach a problem. We don't expect you to have all the answers, but we do expect curiosity and a willingness to evolve alongside the products we’re building.

Inclusion Statement: We're building products for a diverse world, and we need a diverse team to do it well. We strongly encourage applications from everyone, regardless of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status.

AI in Hiring: We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of our hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses.

📌 Software Engineering Development Manager (H/F) (Toronto)
🏢 Alt
📍 Toronto