# Software Development Manager, Institutional Transfers

**Company**: Wealthsimple
**Location**: Remote (Canada)
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Full time
**Salary**: CA$166.4K - CA$208K
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

## Compensation

The base salary range for this role is CA$166.4K – CA$208K, with equity compensation offered.

## Build something people love

Wealthsimple is Canada’s leading financial innovator, offering a full suite of simple, sophisticated financial products. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

## About Institutional Transfers

We're the team that makes it effortless for clients to move their investments to and from Wealthsimple. Our job is to make that process simple, reliable, efficient, and transparent.

## About the Role

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.

## In this role you'll have the opportunity to:

- 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 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.

## What you'll bring:

- 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.

- Experience delivering reliable products with cross-functional partners in a complex or regulated environment.

- 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.

## Nice to haves:

- 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.

## 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.

## Why Wealthsimple?

We offer top-tier health benefits and life insurance, long-term group savings with employer match, 20 vacation days, 4 wellness days, and unlimited sick and mental health days per year. You can also work outside Canada for up to 90 days per year.

## Skills

### Required
- software engineering
- distributed systems
- SQL
- event-driven architectures
- cloud infrastructure
- communication

### Nice to have
- Ruby on Rails
- React
- GraphQL
- Kafka
- Temporal
- Kubernetes
- AWS
- Datadog
- Sentry
- Java
- Kotlin
- Python
- mobile development

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