Manager, Software Development - Financial Risk

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. We're proud of what we've built — and we're just getting started. Read our Culture Manual https://www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/culture and learn more about how we work https://www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/careers. 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,