Senior Manager, Accounts Engineering at Wealthsimple

About the Role

We’re looking for a Senior Manager to lead Accounts Engineering, one of the teams inside the Clients & Accounts Platform (CAP). Accounts Engineering builds new account types (Business Accounts, RESPs, and more), defines the core account configurations that unlock new product features, and evolves the account domain model that the rest of the company builds against. You'll manage a team of roughly 8 full-stack developers.

This team moves fast. There is always more demand than capacity — no shortage of ideas, product asks, or backlog. Your job is to turn that pressure into a high-velocity, high-quality team that ships work the company can rely on for years.

Key Responsibilities:

• Build and lead a high-velocity, high-quality full-stack engineering team, including hiring, coaching, performance managing, and promoting senior individual contributors (ICs)

• Orchestrate and drive alignment on the team's architectural north star, ensuring every project ladders up to it

• Partner with Product and Data Science to define the team's roadmap and resource projects, making hard prioritization calls

• Review, critique, and contribute to project technical planning, staying close to the work to drive projects through to launch without surprises

• Own the team's operational excellence: reliability, on-call health, SLAs, and the day-to-day quality of what we ship

• Keep the team on the leading edge of AI-assisted engineering — across planning, code review, incident response, and anywhere else it can compound

Requirements:

• 4+ years managing high-performance software development teams through multiple successful product launches, including coaching and growing senior and staff ICs

• Strong full-stack technical background — system design chops are essential, and front-end depth is a real plus. You lead from the front technically

• A ship it mentality: set a high bar for pace, iteration, and quality, and build a team culture around it

• A track record of building teams from the ground up — hiring, performance managing, and promoting

• Comfort operating under real pressure: treat capacity constraints as a strategy problem, not a complaint

• Metrics-oriented: don’t speculate, prove. Expect the same of the engineers you lead

• An AI-first mindset — use AI as a core part of how you and your team work

• Strong communicator who makes the team's work visible across the organization and manages upward and across effectively

Nice-to-Have:

• Experience in the fintech or banking industry

• Experience managing both platform teams (where other engineering teams are your customers) and product teams (where clients are)

• Hands-on experience with Rails, Kotlin, and/or React

• Deep experience across both backend and frontend development

• Comfortable writing your own SQL to answer business questions