At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead a team to develop fraud detection systems and enhance client safety.
- Company: Wealthsimple, Canada's leading financial innovator with a collaborative culture.
- Benefits: Top-tier health benefits, 20 vacation days, and unlimited sick days.
- Other info: Join a diverse team committed to innovation and career growth.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in financial risk management while working with cutting-edge technology.
- Qualifications: Experience managing engineering teams and strong communication skills.
The predicted salary is between 118800 - 145200 $ per year.
Build something people love. Wealthsimple is Canada’s leading financial innovator, offering a full suite of simple, sophisticated financial products across managed investing, do-it-yourself trading, cryptocurrency, tax filing, spending, and saving. Wealthsimple currently serves more than 4 million Canadians and holds over $155 billion in assets under administration.
About the Team: The Financial Risk Engineering team builds the tooling that keeps Wealthsimple’s clients safe from fraud, without getting in the way of the experience they signed up for. We sit at the intersection of engineering, product, compliance, fraud countermeasures, and data science, turning that intersection into working systems. We move fast, but we build thoughtfully. Every decision here is a real trade-off between risk and experience.
About the Role: As Manager of Software Development for Financial Risk, you’ll lead the team responsible for how Wealthsimple detects and responds to fraud. This is a hands-on technical leadership role: you’ll set the roadmap and be involved in the work when it counts. You’ll be the connective tissue between engineering, product, compliance, fraud countermeasures, and data science.
In this role you’ll have the opportunity to:
- Own and evolve the technical roadmap for the Financial Risk Engineering team.
- Act as the connective layer between engineering, product, compliance, fraud countermeasures, and data science.
- Stay hands-on: jump into the codebase, weigh in on architecture decisions, and help unblock the team when it matters.
- Build and grow a team that can operate confidently in an area where the right answer is rarely obvious.
- Partner with data science and analytics to turn fraud signals into systems that actually catch things.
- Help shape how AI tools get used across the team, from incident investigation to code review.
Skills you bring:
- Experience managing engineering teams, with the technical depth to contribute directly.
- Comfortable making decisions that involve real trade-offs, without a clear right answer.
- A strong track record partnering across non-engineering functions, like product, compliance, data science, and building trust with each.
- A clear communicator, able to explain technical and risk trade-offs to a range of stakeholders.
Nice-to-have's:
- Experience with streaming technologies such as Apache Flink, Apache Spark, or Kafka.
- A data engineering background working with large datasets and making them usable in real time.
- Experience in risk or payments.
- Experience working closely with analytics or data science teams.
- Full stack experience, with React on the frontend and backend experience across various languages and frameworks.
Who you are:
- You’re comfortable stepping into the code when the team needs it.
- You make peace with ambiguity — fraud and risk rarely come with a clean answer.
- You build trust across teams that don’t always share the same priorities.
- You use AI as part of how you work, not as an afterthought.
- You take ownership of outcomes, not just your own team’s output.
Why Wealthsimple?
- Top-tier health benefits and life insurance.
- Long-term group savings with employer match, through Wealthsimple for Business.
- 20 vacation days, 4 wellness days, and unlimited sick and mental health days per year.
- 90 days away: work outside Canada for up to 90 days per year.
- Employee resource groups, including Rainbow (2SLGBTQ), Women of WS, and Black at WS.
- We are a hybrid team with over 1,500 employees across North America.
Inclusion Statement: We’re building products for a diverse world, and we need a diverse team to do it well. We strongly encourage applications from everyone, regardless of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status.
Accessibility Statement: We’re committed to an accessible hiring experience. If you need any accommodations throughout the interview process, please let us know.
AI in Hiring: We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of our hiring process. These tools assist our team but don’t replace human judgment – all final hiring decisions are made by people.
Manager, Software Development in Winnipeg employer: Wealthsimple Inc.
Wealthsimple is an exceptional employer that fosters a collaborative and innovative work culture, where employees are encouraged to take ownership of their projects and grow alongside the company. With top-tier health benefits, generous vacation policies, and a commitment to diversity and inclusion, Wealthsimple provides a supportive environment for its team members in Toronto. The opportunity to work at the intersection of engineering, product, and data science on meaningful financial risk challenges makes this role not only rewarding but also pivotal in shaping the future of financial technology in Canada.
