Jobs at Wealthsimple

Execute daily securities lending operations, including loan returns, recalls, settlement, reconciliations, discrepancy resolution, corporate actions, billing, treasury cash movements, audit support, and counterparty onboarding. Collaborate with trading, product, engineering, finance, and external counterparties to improve trade flow, develop procedures, and support the Options business. The role requires strong spreadsheet skills, financial judgment, and reliable execution under tight deadlines.

Lead product vision and strategy for Wealthsimple's Financial Risk platform, focusing on fraud prevention and investigation tooling, while collaborating with product, fraud, and data science teams to enhance system performance and client experience.

Lead end-to-end quantitative market-risk model development and productionization. Build VaR, CVaR, stress-testing, derivatives-pricing, and CIRO 5000 margin engines; develop Python and SQL data pipelines; deploy Dockerized microservices through CI/CD; maintain monitoring for drift, failures, and anomalies; document methodologies for regulators and audit; and mentor junior quantitative developers.

Own daily bank reconciliations across treasury accounts and payment rails, resolve complex financial breaks, manage recurring reporting deliverables, and support cash and collateral management projects. The role analyzes financial data using SQL and BI tools, improves reconciliation workflows, supports SOC1 compliance and audit readiness, and communicates financial risks and root causes to technical and business stakeholders.

Lead capital and liquidity management across Wealthsimple's legal entities, owning reporting, planning, allocation, stress testing, and balance sheet optimization. Provide strategic advice to business leaders, maintain capital policies and risk frameworks, support Treasury modelling and AI-enabled improvements, and help lead and scale the Treasury team.

Lead corporate development initiatives spanning strategic growth analysis, mergers and acquisitions, investments, and partnerships. Evaluate build, buy, and partner opportunities through market research, financial forecasting, valuation modeling, and strategic analysis. Manage deal processes from sourcing and due diligence through negotiation, closing, and post-deal integration while coordinating cross-functional stakeholders and external partners.

Own the technical foundation for Workforce Management: build AI agents to automate manual WFM tasks, develop forecasting/scheduling and real-time recommendation engines, drive platform decisions and integrations, co-own technical direction with data and engineering, mentor analysts, and scale systems to reduce headcount growth dependency.

Design, build, and architect stablecoin and crypto infrastructure; integrate DEXs, DeFi protocols, and wallet providers; develop smart contract interactions; expand crypto product functionality and asset selection; collaborate cross-functionally; establish crypto development standards and ensure security and reliability for large-scale user experiences.

Lead end-to-end product ownership for assigned areas (e.g., AI, Crypto, Margin, Rewards, Business Banking). Define problems, write clear requirements, prioritize roadmaps using data and user research, partner with engineering and design, ship iteratively, measure outcomes, and influence stakeholders across cross-functional teams.

Lead end-to-end AI product development: define KPIs, design and train foundation/transformer models, run rigorous experiments (A/B, causal inference), build production training pipelines and evaluation harnesses, analyze feedback, and mentor teammates to translate models into measurable product impact.

Leads motion and product marketing design across Wealthsimple’s product launches, live events, app store presence, social content, and marketing surfaces. Translates product UI into polished animations, videos, prototypes, and static assets; maintains reusable UI and demo libraries; and supports marketing, brand, creative, growth, and web teams. Requires strong production skills, daily motion and video expertise, Figma fluency, independent execution, stakeholder management, and scalable AI-powered workflows.

Own Wealthsimple’s transfer pricing framework, including policies, governance, documentation, calculations, benchmarking, intercompany agreements, compliance, audits, and advisory work. Partner with Finance, Accounting, Treasury, Legal, FP&A, and business teams to assess tax implications of transactions, products, entities, and jurisdictions. Build scalable processes and controls, identify automation opportunities, manage advisors, monitor international tax developments, and support broader international tax matters as the company expands.

Own Wealthsimple’s direct tax function, including income tax provisions, current and deferred tax, forecasting, corporate compliance, tax positions, audits, elections, and entity-level tax documentation. Review T2 and provincial returns, support CRA and Revenu Quebec audits, resolve assessments, and advise on transactions and reorganizations. Establish risk-based review standards, maintain audit-ready workpapers, and lead technical documentation across a complex multi-entity group.

Lead development, testing, and maintenance of quantitative market risk models (VaR, SVaR, stress testing). Produce methodology documentation, model CIRO 5000 margin impacts, write production-quality code, collaborate across risk and reporting teams, and proactively identify and fix model performance issues.

Hire and lead a platform engineering team to define and build Wealthsimple's observability foundation. Own roadmap, instrumentation (OpenTelemetry), SDKs, high-cardinality event data models, SLO/SLI-driven reliability, vendor strategy, pilots, and AI-agent accessible production tooling while remaining hands-on for architecture and prototypes.

Design and build an events-first observability platform: architect high-throughput ingest, storage, and query pipelines; ship SDKs and instrumentation; define standards (OpenTelemetry, SLOs); enable AI-agent investigation and mentor senior engineers while leading cross-team technical initiatives.

Design and run automation-driven, AI-agent-assisted attack campaigns and red-team simulations against Wealthsimple products and infrastructure; build and improve automated testing pipelines, AI agents, and tooling; triage AI-generated findings into high-signal vulnerabilities; collaborate with platform engineers and AppSec to integrate adversarial testing into the SDLC and support remediation.

Lead paid social creative strategy and operate a high-volume testing engine from insight and concept through production, launch, reporting, and iteration. Partner with performance marketing, creative, influencer, and UGC teams to produce performance-oriented ads that meet iCAC targets, build documentation and AI-enabled workflows, and continuously optimize creative across Meta and TikTok.

Lead and grow the Financial Risk Engineering team to detect and respond to fraud. Own the technical roadmap, collaborate with product, compliance, and data science, stay hands-on in code and architecture, and operationalize fraud signals into real-time systems while shaping AI tool usage across the team.

Lead full-stack development for Wealthsimple's Tax team: design, build, and operate frontend and backend systems (React, Python), modernize legacy frontend code, deliver reliable tax services, mentor engineers, shape technical direction, and collaborate with product, design, compliance, and operations.