Remote Manager, Software Development, Platform Experience

Build something people love

Wealthsimple is on a mission to help everyone achieve financial freedom by reimagining what it means to manage your money. Using smart technology, we take financial services that are often confusing and expensive and make them transparent and low-cost for everyone. We’re the largest fintech company in Canada, with 3+ million users who trust us with more than $100 billion in assets. And we’re just getting started.

We’re looking for someone   who thinks big, sweats the small stuff and keeps things simple. You’ll join a high-bar, fast-paced team where people are trusted to own their work, communicate openly, and ship things that improve our clients’ lives. Collaboration, humility, and an obsession over quality are how we get stuff done.

The Platform Experience team sits as a bridge between Platform and Product engineering. We enable product teams to ship reliable code by partnering directly with developers to solve production challenges and with implementation of systematic improvements. We're central to Wealthsimple's reliability mission: when our products are reliable, customers trust us with their financial future. We focus on protecting critical flows, reducing time to detect and resolve incidents, and ensuring we learn from every issue to prevent recurrence.

Reporting to the Senior Manager of Software Development, you'll guide a senior group of Software Developers who partner directly with product teams to ship reliable, error-free experiences. As an Engineering Manager, you'll balance technical leadership with people management—setting clear expectations, providing regular feedback, and creating an environment where your team can do their best work. You'll partner with Platform, Product, Design, and Data teams to align on priorities and make informed tradeoffs. You'll also be responsible for team health, professional development, and ensuring we learn from incidents to continuously improve.

In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to

• Guide and support a team of developers through coaching, career development, and regular feedback conversations
• Partner with product teams to identify reliability challenges and create targeted solutions that improve the client experience
• Build strong relationships with team members across engineering to understand their needs and advocate for tooling improvements
• Collaborate with engineering leadership to shape project proposals and bring them to relevant planning discussions
• Lead migrations, unblock dependencies, and keep momentum
• Promote best practices for production engineering and help establish patterns that scale across the organization
• Coordinate the team's rotation program, ensuring smooth onboarding and offboarding as developers move between Platform and Product

What you’ll bring

• Experience in development and managing software engineering teams
• Strong technical background with the ability to engage meaningfully in discussions about system reliability, performance, and architecture
• Experience partnering with multiple teams to coordinate cross-functional initiatives
• Excellent communication skills for sharing updates, building alignment, and creating documentation
• A collaborative approach that builds trust and empathy between different parts of the organization

Nice to haves

• Experience with platform or infrastructure engineering teams
• Background in reliability engineering, SRE, or production operations
• Familiarity with observability tools and incident management processes

Compensation & Equity

Base salary range: For this role, candidates located in Canada can expect a base salary range of CAD $166,400 - $208,000. Actual compensation is determined based on skills, experience, and role level. Exceptional candidates may be considered above the top of the range, and pay can increase quickly for those who make a big impact in the role.

Total compensation: In addition to base salary, this role includes equity compensation. We use clear job levels and market-based salary bands to ensure compensation is fair and consistent across the company.

Why Wealthsimple? 

Top-tier health benefits and life insurance

Long-term group savings with employer match using our Wealthsimple for Business platform

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

✈️ 90 days away program: Employees can work outside of Canada for up to 90 days per calendar year

A wide variety of peer and company-led Employee Resources Groups (e.g., Rainbow, Women of Wealthsimple, Black @ WS)

We’re a remote first team with over 1,500 employees across North America - and one of the best things about working here is the people. You’ll be collaborating with incredibly talented, curious, and driven teammates who care deeply about doing great work. 

Be a part of our Canadian success story and help shape the financial future of millions.

Read our Culture Manual and learn more about how we work . 

Technology & Innovation at Wealthsimple

We believe the future belongs to those who innovate boldly. At Wealthsimple, every team member is expected to lean into new technologies, including AI, and tooling to rethink how we work, solve problems faster, and create even greater value. We're looking for people who are not just comfortable with change but energized by it. Our commitment is to build a company that evolves at the pace of the world around us, and we want you to help lead that future.

DEI Statement

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. 

Accessibility Statement

Wealthsimple provides an accessible candidate experience. If you need any accommodations or adjustments throughout the interview process and beyond, please let us know, and we will work with you to provide the necessary support and make reasonable accommodations to facilitate your participation. We are continuously working to improve our accessibility practices and welcome any feedback or suggestions on how we can better accommodate candidates with accessibility needs.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.