Wealthsimple
Manager, Software Development - Financial Risk
Remote role where the employee must remain based in a particular country.
Canada only
Employer listed it 6 weeks ago · Added yesterday
Been open since 6 weeks ago, still being checked, but it has been live a while.
Salary
Not stated
Location
Canada only
Timezone
US East
Contract
Full-time
Experience
Mid
Category
Software
This employer didn't state pay. Jobs like this usually pay around $160k–$250k a year, a typical range taken from 595 mid-level software roles on Nomaders that do state pay. It's a guide, not an offer.
Remote flexibility
Work from home
This is a remote role, but the employee must be based in Canada. It is work from home rather than work from anywhere.
What the employer says
- Source listing states candidate location: "Remote (Canada), Remote"
What Nomaders makes of it
- Residency required in Canada
- Payroll and tax are likely handled in that country only
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About the role
Build something people love
Wealthsimple is Canada’s leading financial innovator. The company offers 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. The company was founded in 2014 by a team of financial experts and technology entrepreneurs, and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.
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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, and we're the ones who turn that intersection into working systems. We move fast, but we build thoughtfully. Every decision here is a real trade-off between risk and experience, and we take that seriously. If you want to work on problems where the stakes are real and the answers aren't obvious, this is the team for it.
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, but you'll also be in the work when it counts. You'll be the connective tissue between engineering, product, compliance, fraud countermeasures, and data science, making sure those teams are solving the same problem instead of five different ones.
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, not just direct
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
Requirements
- ·Experience managing engineering teams, with the technical depth to contribute directly, not just direct
- ·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
- ·Experience with streaming technologies such as Apache Flink, Apache Spark, or Kafka
Benefits
- ·📈 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
How to apply
- 1Check the flexibility label above, work from home, matches where you plan to live and work.
- 2Tailor your CV to the role at Wealthsimple, mentioning your remote working experience and working hours (US East).
- 3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.
Found 1d ago. Last checked 23 Sept. Always confirm the details on the original posting, salary and location can change after publication.
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