About this role
Build something people loveWealthsimple's mission is to help everyone achieve financial freedom – by making financial services simple, transparent, and low-cost. We're Canada's largest fintech, trusted by over 3 million clients with more than $100 billion in assets. We move fast, we own our work, and we care deeply about the people using our products. If that sounds like you, keep reading.
We're proud of what we've built — and we're just getting started. Read our Culture Manual and learn more about how we work.
About the teamPlatform Engineering provides the foundation for everything Wealthsimple builds. Our operational platform, spanning runtime infrastructure, observability, and developer tooling, ensures systems run reliably and teams ship with confidence. Our data platform powers how information flows through the company, enabling analytics, reporting, and the machine learning that drives intelligent product experiences. Together, we help developers, operators, and data scientists deliver great financial products to Canadians.
Runtime Platform sits at the core of this mission. This team owns:Infrastructure foundations: the Kubernetes clusters, compute, networking, and cloud infrastructure that everything runs on.
Observability: the instrumentation, dashboards, alerting, and tooling that help teams understand their systems in production.
Production operations: how we run at scale, respond to incidents, and continuously improve our reliability postureWe build for the long term, investing in foundational capabilities that compound over time, not just quick fixes.
The work this team does shapes how confidently product teams can ship, how quickly engineers can debug issues, and how reliably our systems serve customers as we scale.
About the roleWe're looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to own Runtime Platform. You'll report to the VP of Platform Engineering and partner closely with peer leads and Principal Engineers.
You own the strategy and execution for Runtime Platform. You set the technical direction, build and develop the team, and are accountable for outcomes. You'll be hands-on enough to have credibility with your engineers, and strategic enough to influence cross-functional roadmaps.
You'll spend significant time on stakeholder management: understanding what product engineering teams need, translating those needs into platform capabilities, and building trust through consistent delivery. You'll represent Runtime Platform in incident reviews, architecture discussions, and planning cycles.
You'll inherit a team tackling the core challenges of reliability engineering: building systems that fail gracefully, making production legible to the teams that depend on it, and continuously improving how we ship and operate at scale. You prioritize ruthlessly, make bets that compound over time, and own the results.
Skills you bringLarge-scale infrastructure experience. You've operated platforms serving high-traffic, high-stakes workloads. You understand distributed systems, Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred), and what it takes to keep them running. You've dealt with capacity planning, cost optimization, and disaster recovery.
Strong engineering management fundamentals. You've led teams of engineers and managers. You know how to hire, develop, and retain strong people. You've navigated performance challenges and built healthy team cultures.
Production mindset. You've been on-call. You've led incident response. You understand observability, SLOs, and the discipline required to run reliable systems.
Regulatory awareness. You've operated in environments with compliance requirements like SOC2 and PCI. You understand the change management discipline required in regulated industries and can balance velocity with auditability.
Stakeholder fluency. You can translate technical work into business impact. You build trust with non-platform teams. You know when to say no and how to say yes in ways that don't overcommit your team.
This is a high-impact leadership role at a company where infrastructure reliability directly affects people's financial lives. You'll have real ownership, a team that cares deeply about craft, and the support of a Platform Engineering organization that's invested in doing this well.
If you want to build platforms that matter, lead a team that ships, and work on problems that are genuinely hard, we'd like to talk.
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.
ICYMITechnology & Innovation at Wealthsimple: We move quickly and build thoughtfully. That means we're always looking for better ways to work — whether that's new tools, AI, or rethinking how we approach a problem. We don't expect you to have all the answers, but we do expect curiosity and a willingness to evolve alongside the products we're building.
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 — we'll work with you to make sure you have what you need. We also welcome any feedback on how we can better accommodate candidates with accessibility needs.
AI in Hiring: We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of our hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our team but don't replace human judgment – all final hiring decisions are made by people. If you have questions about how your data is used, reach out to us.