Senior Manager, Software Development – Clients & Accounts

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Canada, +1 more country.

📋 Description

• Lead the Accounts Engineering team, which is part of the Clients & Accounts Platform.

• Oversee approximately 8 full-stack developers.

• Recruit, mentor, manage performance, and promote senior individual contributors.

• Develop a high-velocity, high-quality full-stack engineering team.

• Drive consensus on the team's architectural vision.

• Ensure that projects are in line with the team's architectural strategy.

• Collaborate with Product and Data Science teams to outline the roadmap and allocate resources for projects.

• Make prioritization choices when project demand surpasses available capacity.

• Review, evaluate, and contribute to technical planning efforts.

• Steer projects through to launch without unforeseen issues.

• Take ownership of operational excellence, which includes reliability, on-call health, SLAs, and daily delivery quality.

• Promote AI-assisted engineering across various workflows, including planning, code reviews, and incident responses.

• Develop new account types, such as Business Accounts and RESPs.

• Define essential account configurations and evolve the account domain model.

⛳️ Requirements

• Minimum of 4 years of experience managing high-performance software development teams through multiple successful product launches, with a focus on coaching and developing senior and staff individual contributors.

• Strong background in full-stack development.

• Expertise in system design.

• Depth in front-end technologies is advantageous.

• Ability to make substantial contributions during design reviews and identify gaps in project plans.

• A "ship it" mentality with high standards for pace, iteration, and quality.

• Proven experience in building teams from scratch, including hiring, managing performance, and promoting team members.

• Ability to work effectively under pressure and make decisive prioritization choices.

• Metrics-driven approach.

• Possess an AI-first mindset and experience incorporating AI into work processes.

• Strong communication skills, including the ability to negotiate priorities, set stakeholder expectations, and manage relationships across various levels.

• Experience in the fintech or banking sector is a plus.

• Experience managing both platform and product teams is also a plus.

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

• Extensive experience in both backend and frontend development is a plus.

• Comfort with writing SQL is desirable.

• Must be a permanent resident of Canada or the United States and legally eligible to work in either country.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive health benefits and life insurance.

• Long-term group savings plan with employer match, facilitated through Wealthsimple for Business.

• 20 vacation days.

• 4 wellness days.

• Unlimited sick and mental health days each year.

• Opportunity to work outside Canada for up to 90 days annually.

• Access to employee resource groups, including Rainbow (2SLGBTQ), Women of WS, and Black at WS.

• Flexible remote work arrangement.

• Collaboration with talented colleagues across North America.