Software Development Manager, Wealthsimple
Streaming Platform
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
- Strong knowledge of building, maintaining and scaling real-time data ingestion and processing frameworks such as Kafka, Flink and Temporal
- A passion and experience of growing, leading and developing software engineering teams
- An ability to adapt and ship meaningful work in a fast-paced environment
- A collaborative and open approach to communication: you are experienced in delivering clear, concise and solution-focused messages, that are easily understood by a cross-discipline team
What the job involves
- We aim to design, build and provide scalable, secure, and stable infrastructure, while also enabling our engineers to quickly and easily deploy new code
- The Wealthsimple ecosystem is primarily Ruby on Rails and JavaScript micro services, with state backed by Aurora (PostgreSQL) and Redis
- The infrastructure-specific stack you will work on is powered by AWS, built by Ansible, deployed with Terraform, run on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, powered by Docker and Consul and finally, orchestrated by Nomad and “coming soon” Kubernetes
- The Streaming Platform team is part of the Platform Engineering team at Wealthsimple and is responsible for providing the platform, standards and tools to leverage streaming and adjacent technologies (Flink, Temporal, Kafka, Confluent) the Wealthsimple way: reliable, secure and scalable
- We are informed by our partners across product, engineering and data
- Some of the exciting things the Streaming Platform team empowers include being able to make fraud decisions in real-time, and to keep client state and data consistent across our microservices
- Through the adoption of these technologies and solutions, the Streaming Platform team will increase velocity and reduce the toil and cost of development, providing a huge impact across the business
- As the first Software Development Manager on the Streaming Platform team, you are going to shape the Streaming Platform team
- By partnering with Recruitment and Engineering Leaders, you will hire and develop a small and inclusive team, responsible for their learning, development and growth
- By enabling this team to timely release our data projects, you will evolve the service of the Platform team, creating a world-class infrastructure for our teams to build and deploy at scale
- Build the Streaming Platform team; grow, lead and coach a team of Engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration and technical expertise
- Create, refine, and deliver on a roadmap for the team, providing standardization to a strong developer ecosystem and scale our application platforms
- Actively contribute to architectural decisions for streaming and adjacent technologies, helping the team to build tools that deliver a great developer experience
- Define best practices and standards that benefit our engineering organization, and hold teams accountable to these standards
- Ensure the scalability and reliability of the platform, infrastructure and tools that support our teams
- Partner deeply with Data Stores, Data Integrations and other cross-functional teams, understanding their needs to deliver the next phase of our Streaming Infrastructure
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
$397m
LATE VC
May 2021
$541.4m
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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