Development Manager, Wealthsimple
Reliability Engineering
Professional investing services made simple
Job no longer available
Professional investing services made simple
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help everyone achieve financial freedom.
Role
Who you are
- Is a true leader and caring manager for the Reliability Engineering team
- Is able to clearly and effectively communicate, internally and externally, the organization’s vision and strategy and explain technical decisions
- Has experience building, evolving, and maintaining large, reliable, and scalable systems or participating in or alongside reliability teams or similar roles like Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
- Is a mentor and who will have a large positive impact on morale and company culture
- Is an effective listener, consensus builder and effectively incorporates diverse ideas into a coherent vision
What the job involves
- The Reliability Engineering team empowers service owners to get their new features and products into the hands of clients while ensuring that Wealthsimple remains reliable
- This role has as much cultural influence as technical influence within our Engineering organization. We create tooling and frameworks for other teams to use and only add as much process as is necessary (and never more) to ensure services are resilient and reliable
- Creating and maintaining a suite of Reliability tools that empower all teams across Wealthsimple to improve reliability for our clients
- Proactively strengthening our systems using Conditioning principles and practices including load testing, stress testing, and game days
- Implementing solutions for tracking Service Level Objectives (SLOs) across the organization and giving hands-on support for teams to meet their objectives
- Strengthening our approach to development, deployment, and maintenance of services so that we increase reliability across the board
- Building a culture of incident management and automation during incidents
- Formalizing and centralizing the efforts across the company to offer consistent reliability for all products
- Participating in cross-team investigations related to incidents or performance degradation
- Directly manage the people and the projects of Wealthsimple’s Reliability Engineering team
- Actively contribute to architecture decisions and build software affecting large parts of the organization
- Define best practices and standards that affect multiple teams, and hold teams accountable to these standards
- Mentor engineers at all levels
- Be a leader for the team, increased individual and team performance, growing careers, and communicating in a way that effectively reaches audiences across the company
- Work with staff engineers to curate and evolve our company-wide technology and tools
Our take
Wealthsimple is one of a crop of robo-advisors trying to democratise investment management. These companies are disrupting the industry by automating many of the processes involved in investment, removing the need for human advisors.
But while other so-called robo-advisors are focused on courting the high end of the market, Wealthsimple is trying to provide the same types of tools and advice to all users, regardless of the amount they have to invest.
Wealthsimple does have higher fees than some other robo-advisors such as Betterment and Charles Schwab. However, the company believes that it provides a more user-friendly platform, tailored to millennials who will be attracted to Wealthsimple due to its ease of use and social impact offerings.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-10% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Oct 2025
$395.2m
LATE VC
May 2021
$538.9m
LATE VC
Total funding: $1.2bn
Company benefits
- Retirement savings matching plan through Wealthsimple Work
- Company equity for full-time employees
- Access to Premium Client perks, including personal finance learning & advice and a boosted interest rate on deposits
- Paid parental leave (6 months topped up to 100% of salary)
- 20 vacation days per year
- 90 Days Away program
- Top-tier health benefits
- Life & disability insurance
- Generous sick and mental health days
- Employee resource plan including services like RMT, psychology, and physiotherapy
- Up to $5,000 per year for mental health supports
- Gender Affirmation benefits
- Up to $1,500 per year for professional development
- Up to $1,500 per year for wellness and home office expenses
- Employee resource groups
- Social impact hours
Company HQ
Fashion District, Toronto, ON
Leadership
Michael Katchen
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously worked as a Business Analyst at McKinsey and then at Ancestry.com as Country Director for Canada.
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