About the TeamThe 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 RoleAs 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
- Full stack experience, with React on the frontend and backend experience across various languages and frameworks - building an experience when things go wrong for the client is an important area the team is responsible for
Who you are- You're comfortable stepping into the code when the team needs it, not just reviewing from a distance
- 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. The people are one of the best parts of working here: you'll collaborate with incredibly talented, curious, and driven teammates who are deeply committed to doing great work.
