Manager, Software Development, Platform Experience
Job Description
The Platform Experience team sits as a bridge between Platform and Product engineering. We enable product teams to ship reliable code by partnering directly with developers to solve production challenges and with implementation of systematic improvements. We're central to Wealthsimple's reliability mission: when our products are reliable, customers trust us with their financial future. We focus on protecting critical flows, reducing time to detect and resolve incidents, and ensuring we learn from every issue to prevent recurrence.
Reporting to the Senior Manager of Software Development, you'll guide a senior group of Software Developers who partner directly with product teams to ship reliable, error-free experiences. As an Engineering Manager, you'll balance technical leadership with people management—setting clear expectations, providing regular feedback, and creating an environment where your team can do their best work. You'll partner with Platform, Product, Design, and Data teams to align on priorities and make informed tradeoffs. You'll also be responsible for team health, professional development, and ensuring we learn from incidents to continuously improve.
In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to
Guide and support a team of developers through coaching, career development, and regular feedback conversationsPartner with product teams to identify reliability challenges and create targeted solutions that improve the client experienceBuild strong relationships with team members across engineering to understand their needs and advocate for tooling improvementsCollaborate with engineering leadership to shape project proposals and bring them to relevant planning discussionsLead migrations, unblock dependencies, and keep momentumPromote best practices for production engineering and help establish patterns that scale across the organizationCoordinate the team's rotation program, ensuring smooth onboarding and offboarding as developers move between Platform and ProductWhat you’ll bring
Experience in development and managing software engineering teamsStrong technical background with the ability to engage meaningfully in discussions about system reliability, performance, and architectureExperience partnering with multiple teams to coordinate cross-functional initiativesExcellent communication skills for sharing updates, building alignment, and creating documentationA collaborative approach that builds trust and empathy between different parts of the organizationNice to haves
Experience with platform or infrastructure engineering teamsBackground in reliability engineering, SRE, or production operationsFamiliarity with observability tools and incident management processes