Software Development Manager (Institutional Transfers)

Join Wealthsimple as a Software Development Manager for Institutional Transfers. In this role, you'll lead a team of software developers, shape the technical direction and delivery strategy, and promote a strong engineering culture. You'll work closely with Product and Design to set a clear technical direction and roadmap, ensure the scalability and reliability of the transfer platform, and automate manual work. You'll also have the opportunity to help shape newly formed teams with significant business and client impact.

Diriger une équipe de développeurs logiciels, en façonnant la direction technique, la stratégie de livraison et la culture des Transferts Institutionnels.

Familiarity with institutional transfer rails such as ATON or Fundserv

Responsibilities

• Établir une direction technique claire et une feuille de route en collaboration avec les équipes Produit et Design, en équilibrant les nouvelles capacités avec la fiabilité et la maintenabilité.
• Technical depth in production software development and distributed systems, with the judgment to guide architecture and implementation decisions
• Comfort supporting a team through on-call duties and system maintenance
• A strong commitment to inclusive leadership, operational excellence, and continuous improvement — including improving team documentation and making meaningful improvements to the codebase

Requirements

• Construire et développer une équipe performante et inclusive grâce au recrutement, au coaching, aux retours d'expérience et à la gestion des performances.
• 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
• Experience managing and developing software engineering teams, including hiring, mentoring, feedback, and performance management
• Experience delivering reliable products with cross-functional partners in a complex or regulated environment
• Experience with Java, Kotlin, Python, or mobile development
• Experience with Ruby on Rails, React or React Native, GraphQL, Kafka, Temporal, Kubernetes, AWS, Datadog, or Sentry

Preferred

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