Senior Manager of Infrastructure, Wealthsimple
Salary not provided
AWS
Kubernetes
Senior and Expert level
Remote from Canada
Professional investing services made simple
Be an early applicant
Professional investing services made simple
1001+ employees
FintechB2CPersonal financeInvestingFinancial ServicesSocial Impact
Be an early applicant
Salary not provided
AWS
Kubernetes
Senior and Expert level
Remote from Canada
1001+ employees
FintechB2CPersonal financeInvestingFinancial ServicesSocial Impact
Company mission
To help everyone achieve financial freedom.
Role
Who you are
- We’re looking for someone who thinks big, sweats the small stuff and keeps things simple
- Large-scale infrastructure experience. You've operated platforms serving high-traffic, high-stakes workloads. You understand distributed systems, Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred), and what it takes to keep them running. You've dealt with capacity planning, cost optimization, and disaster recovery
- Strong engineering management fundamentals. You've led teams of engineers and managers. You know how to hire, develop, and retain strong people. You've navigated performance challenges and built healthy team cultures
- Production mindset. You've been on-call. You've led incident response. You understand observability, SLOs, and the discipline required to run reliable systems
- Regulatory awareness. You've operated in environments with compliance requirements like SOC2 and PCI. You understand the change management discipline required in regulated industries and can balance velocity with auditability
- Stakeholder fluency. You can translate technical work into business impact. You build trust with non-platform teams. You know when to say no and how to say yes in ways that don't overcommit your team
- If you want to build platforms that matter, lead a team that ships, and work on problems that are genuinely hard, we'd like to talk
What the job involves
- Platform Engineering provides the foundation for everything Wealthsimple builds. Our operational platform, spanning runtime infrastructure, observability, and developer tooling, ensures systems run reliably and teams ship with confidence.
- Our data platform powers how information flows through the company, enabling analytics, reporting, and the machine learning that drives intelligent product experiences. Together, we help developers, operators, and data scientists deliver great financial products to Canadians
- Runtime Platform sits at the core of this mission. This team owns:
- Infrastructure foundations: the Kubernetes clusters, compute, networking, and cloud infrastructure that everything runs on
- Observability: the instrumentation, dashboards, alerting, and tooling that help teams understand their systems in production
- Production operations: how we run at scale, respond to incidents, and continuously improve our reliability postureWe build for the long term, investing in foundational capabilities that compound over time, not just quick fixes
- The work this team does shapes how confidently product teams can ship, how quickly engineers can debug issues, and how reliably our systems serve customers as we scale
- We're looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to own Runtime Platform. You'll report to the VP of Platform Engineering and partner closely with peer leads and Principal Engineers
- You own the strategy and execution for Runtime Platform. You set the technical direction, build and develop the team, and are accountable for outcomes. You'll be hands-on enough to have credibility with your engineers, and strategic enough to influence cross-functional roadmaps
- You'll spend significant time on stakeholder management: understanding what product engineering teams need, translating those needs into platform capabilities, and building trust through consistent delivery. You'll represent Runtime Platform in incident reviews, architecture discussions, and planning cycles
- You'll inherit a team tackling the core challenges of reliability engineering: building systems that fail gracefully, making production legible to the teams that depend on it, and continuously improving how we ship and operate at scale. You prioritize ruthlessly, make bets that compound over time, and own the results
- This is a high-impact leadership role at a company where infrastructure reliability directly affects people's financial lives. You'll have real ownership, a team that cares deeply about craft, and the support of a Platform Engineering organization that's invested in doing this well
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
Top investors
-10% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Oct 2025
$403.4m
LATE VC
May 2021
$550m
LATE VC
Total funding: $1.3bn
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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