Software Development Manager, Institutional Transfers

The role

You will lead a team of software developers to shape technical direction, delivery strategy, and culture for Institutional Transfers. You will balance client impact with investments in reliability, scalability, and developer effectiveness.

What you will do

• Build and grow a high-performing, inclusive team through hiring, coaching, feedback, and performance management.
• Set technical direction and roadmap with Product and Design.
• Ensure scalability and reliability of the transfer platform and operational tools.
• Partner with Operations and CX to automate manual work.
• Help the team build new ways for clients to move accounts using data-driven iteration.
• Promote engineering practices including design, code review, testing, and observability.
• Champion the use of AI-first development tools.
• Work across various engineering teams to resolve dependencies and deliver outcomes.
• Hold teams accountable to industry best practices and standards.

Required qualifications

• Experience managing and developing software engineering teams, including hiring, mentoring, feedback, and performance management.
• Technical depth in production software development and distributed systems.
• Experience delivering reliable products with cross-functional partners in a complex or regulated environment.
• 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.
• Commitment to inclusive leadership, operational excellence, and continuous improvement.
• Comfort supporting a team through on-call duties and system maintenance.

Nice to have

• 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.

Benefits

• Top-tier health benefits and life insurance
• Long-term group savings with employer match, through Wealthsimple for Business
• 20 vacation days
• 4 wellness days
• Unlimited sick and mental health days per year
• Work outside Canada for up to 90 days per year

About the company

Wealthsimple is Canada’s leading financial innovator, offering a full suite of financial products. The company is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.