Senior Software Development Manager - Reliability & Infrastructure

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Wealthsimple is on a mission to help everyone achieve financial freedom by reimagining what it means to manage your money. Using smart technology, we take financial services that are often confusing, opaque and expensive and make them transparent and low-cost for everyone. We’re the largest fintech company in Canada, with over 4 million users who trust us with more than $50 billion in assets.

Our teams ship often and make an impact with groundbreaking ideas. We're looking for talented people who keep it simple and value collaboration and humility as we continue to create inclusive and high-performing teams where people can be inspired to do their best work.

About the Infrastructure Team

Foundational to all of Wealthsimple’s inner systems are teams that are devoted to ensuring that our applications are stable, scalable, performant, resilient, and reliable. Currently this area contains Reliability Engineering and Infrastructure Platform. Both teams work together to provide developers with the platform, tooling, and guidance to build, test, deploy, and monitor world-class solutions in the financial services industry. 

The value that this area provides to other developers—and ultimately to Wealthsimple clients—is a strong, opinionated approach to running services in production. Through various efforts, we accelerate development while increasing reliability and scalability of all services. We make it easy to deploy safely, monitor, and test all systems at Wealthsimple.

About the Role

As a Senior Software Development Manager, Infrastructure you will lead, develop and coach our Reliability Engineering and Infrastructure Platform Managers. As our business, products and clients grow, your impact in shaping our technical implementations and cultural narrative is key to delivering true value to Wealthsimple clients. You’ll play a key role in unlocking our infrastructure potential as we continue our transition to Kubernetes, creating a world-class and reliable suite of products and services!

• Grow, lead and coach a team of Reliability and Infrastructure Platform Managers, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration and technical expertise
• Complete a multi-year migration to Kubernetes that evolves our AWS cloud infrastructure’s reliability and performance
• Create a strategic roadmap for our Platform team that will empower a better internal developer experience
• Develop improved observability for the team via monitoring metrics dashboards, logs and other visual content
• Partner with Recruitment to nurture and develop relationships with diverse groups, ensuring Wealthsimple’s Infrastructure team’s voice, message and vision is shared
• Stay up to date with the latest industry trends and technologies in SRE, Operations and Infrastructure in order to offer best-in-class solutions for our customers

• Experience growing, leading and developing software engineering teams and Leaders
• Strong knowledge in both infrastructure and software development best practices, and how to leverage those to improve the Developer experience
• A deep technical understanding of how to leverage Kubernetes to build, evolve, and maintain large, reliable, and scalable systems on cloud infrastructure
• An ability to develop internal and external relationships, championing the Reliability and Infrastructure vision and strategy 
• 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

Why Wealthsimple?

🤑 Competitive salary with top-tier health benefits and life insurance

📈 Retirement savings matching plan using Wealthsimple Work

🌴 20 vacation days per year and unlimited sick and mental health days

📚 Up to $1,500 per year towards wellness and professional development budgets respectively 

🛫 90 days away program: Employees can work internationally in eligible countries for up to 90 days per calendar year 

🌎 A wide variety of peer and company-led Employee Resource Groups (ie. Rainbow, Women of Wealthsimple, Black @ WS)

💖 Company-wide wellness days off scheduled throughout the year

We’re a remote-first team, with over 1,000 employees coast to coast in North America. Be a part of our Canadian success story and help shape the financial future of millions — join us!

Read our Culture Manual and learn more about how we work.

DEI Statement

At Wealthsimple, we are building products for a diverse world and we need a diverse team to do that successfully. We strongly encourage applications from everyone regardless of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status. 

Accessibility Statement

Wealthsimple provides an accessible candidate experience. If you need any accommodations or adjustments throughout the interview process and beyond, please let us know, and we will work with you to provide the necessary support and make reasonable accommodations to facilitate your participation. We are continuously working to improve our accessibility practices and welcome any feedback or suggestions on how we can better accommodate candidates with accessibility needs.