Senior Software Development Manager at Wealthsimple

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About The Role

Experience with AI and machine learning technologies
Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS or Google Cloud
Knowledge of agile development methodologies
Experience in a startup or fast-paced environment
Lead and manage a team of full-stack developers to build and evolve new account types and core account configurations.
Drive alignment on the team's architectural vision and ensure that every project aligns with it, while also making prioritization calls.
Own the team's operational excellence, including reliability, on-call health, SLAs, and the day-to-day quality of what is shipped.
Strong full-stack technical background — system design chops are essential, and front-end depth is a real plus. You lead from the front technically: you can sit in a design review and push back with substance, and you can spot what's missing in a project plan before the team does
A "ship it" mentality: you set a high bar for pace, iteration, and quality, and you build a team culture around it — including having the hard conversations when someone isn't meeting the bar
Comfortable writing your own SQL to answer your own questions about the business
Experience in the fintech or banking industry
Comfort operating under real pressure: you treat "we don't have enough capacity" as a strategy problem, not a complaint, and you make strong, opinionated calls when there's more to do than time to do it
Metrics-oriented: you don't speculate, you prove. You expect the same of the engineers you lead
An AI-first mindset — you use AI as a core part of how you and your team work, not as a side experiment
A strong communicator who makes their team's work visible across the organization and manages upward and across effectively — negotiating priorities with peer managers, setting expectations with stakeholders, and making sure leadership understands the trade-offs behind the roadmap
4+ years managing high-performance software development teams through multiple successful product launches, including coaching and growing senior and staff ICs
Hands-on experience with Rails, Kotlin, and/or React
A track record of building teams from the ground up — hiring, performance managing, and promoting
Experience managing both platform teams (where other engineering teams are your customers) and product teams (where clients are)
Deep experience across both backend and frontend development
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