Software Development Manager Jobs in Toronto, ON

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One of Canada's Most Trusted Investment Brands.

AtPicton Mahoney Asset Management (PICTON Investments),being alternative isn't just what we do-it's who we are.
Founded by industry pioneer David Picton, we've spent 20 years challenging conventional wisdom and redefining the investing landscape. As one of Canada's most trusted investment brands, we are proudly independent-privately run, 100% employee-owned, and deeply committed to delivering results for our clients.

Thinking Alternatively is in Our DNA

With a team of 241 bold thinkers-one-third dedicated solely to investment management-we are specialists, not generalists. Managing over $19.3 billion (June 30, 2026)for institutional and retail clients, we navigate markets with conviction, resilience, and a forward-thinking approach.

We're more thaninvestors - we're innovators. We challenge traditional investment mindsets, constantly pushing the boundaries to achieve our mission: To bring greater certainty to investors.

Our success is built on four guiding principles:

• Treat investors' money like our own.

• Redefine the way investors invest.

• Be human-always approachable.
• Succeed together, one investment at a time.
  

These aren't just words-they define how we think, how we invest, and how we work.

Now, we're entering our next chapter. We're transforming our brand and reshaping the way the world invests. If you think alternatively, embrace an entrepreneurial spirit, and thrive in a dynamic, bureaucracy-free environment, join us and be part of what's next.

Thriving in Our Entrepreneurial Culture

AtPICTON Investments, you'll thrive in our creative and dynamic workplace, where collaboration and support are at the core of everything we do. At our firm, you'll have the opportunity to take on significant responsibilities, work in a flexible environment, and tackle challenging projects from the outset. Our culture is designed for ambitious professionals who want to make an immediate impact while continuing to push boundaries and achieve our greater mission. You'll be empowered with a high level of responsibility, trust, and flexibility, providing an exciting and creative space for you to help reshape how the world views alternative investments. With competitive total rewards, performance-based bonuses, and a clear path for career growth, you'll have everything you need to develop both now and over the longer term.

The Opportunity

PICTON Investments is currently hiring a Software Development Engineer to join the Technology team in a role dedicated to our digital platforms. You'll work across our website and supporting systems, partnering closely with Engineering leadership and the Website & Digital Marketing team to ship features, components, and improvements that strengthen the experience for advisors, institutional clients, and investors.

This is a hands-on engineering role with broad scope. You'll own day-to-day development against a modern Next.js codebase and a headless CMS, contribute to platform decisions, and collaborate with marketing, design, and analytics partners on a continuous roadmap of work. Strong HTML and CSS skills are a hard requirement for this role.

The expectedannualbase salary for this role is 100,000-130,000 with the final number depending on your experience, skills,and education.On top of that, you'll be eligible for our discretionary bonus program.

AtPICTONInvestments,being employee-owned meanswe take care of our team and offer opportunities for top performers to participate in our equity ownership program over time. Eligible employees get access to a full benefits package, including profit sharing, health and wellness coverage, life and disability insurance, paid time off and holidays, learning and development programs, and more, many of which are fully covered or subsidized by us.

You'll Have the Opportunity to Learn and Lead

Web platform development

• Build and maintain features, components, and pages on our Next.js codebase
• Develop new CMS content models and matching front-end components in lockstep
• Implement responsive, accessible, performance-conscious UI from design specs
• Support the bilingual (English/French) site infrastructure and translation workflow
• Contribute to code quality through reviews, testing, and documentation

CMS and content infrastructure

• Partner with the Website & Digital team to translate marketing requirements into Contentful content types, references, and validations
• Improve the authoring experience for non-technical content editors
• Maintain and extend internal tooling that supports content creation and publishing workflows

Performance, SEO, and analytics enablement

• Implement structured data (Schema.org), metadata, and technical SEO requirements
• Ensure analytics, UTM, and event tracking are correctly wired across the site and into GA4
• Treat Core Web Vitals and page performance as a continuous discipline

Platform, deployment, and collaboration

• Manage deployments and environments on Azure / Azure Front Door
• Work with Engineering leadership on platform decisions, security, and integration with internal systems
• Contribute to engineering standards, documentation, and onboarding

What We're Looking For

Required

• 7+ years of professional full-stack web development experience
• Strong React and Next.js - able to build production features end-to-end
• Accessibility (WCAG 2.1 AA) as a working standard
• Expert level HTML and CSS skills
• Hands-on experience with a headless CMS (Contentful strongly preferred; Sanity, Strapi, or similar acceptable)
• TypeScript and modern JavaScript fluency
• Solid Node.js, REST and GraphQL APIs
• Git-based workflows, code review discipline, CI/CD familiarity
• Cloud platform experience - Azure preferred, AWS or GCP transferable
• Strong written and verbal communication - comfortable working with engineers, designers, marketers, and executives
  

Bonus

• Experience in financial services, asset management, or another compliance-sensitive industry
• Bilingual or experience working with bilingual content and integrations
• Working knowledge of GA4, Google Tag Manager, and analytics implementation
• Familiarity with technical SEO (structured data, canonicalization, hreflang, Core Web Vitals)

Our Commitment to Employees

AtPICTON Investments, we take pride in enhancing our employees' experiences through a comprehensive suite of exceptional perks and programs. Our benefits include corporate fitness reimbursement and discounts, VersaFi memberships (formerly Women in Capital Markets), PICTON Investment counseling and portfolio management services, volunteer and charitable donation matching, maternity and parental leave top-up, recognition awards, semi-annual performance bonuses, a generous annual vacation entitlement (minimum of 15 days per year), training and development reimbursement, extensive health and dental benefits, a healthcare spending account, and more.
These offerings are designed to support your career growth, well-being, and overall success. Join us and thrive in an environment that values and invests in you!

PICTON Investments is committed to providing an equitable and fair work environment for everyone and all hiring and other personnel actions will be taken without regard to race, colour, creed, religion, sex, disability, gender identity, gender expression, family status, age, language or national origin. We welcome applications from candidates with diverse experiences globally. Canadian experience is not required. If you require an accommodation at any point in time throughout the application and hiring process, please contact Human Resources at (416) 955-4108 or ataccessibility@pictoninvestments.com.

PICTON Investments does not accept unsolicited resumes, emails, calls, or any other form of communication from third-party recruitment agencies. Any unsolicited outreach, including commercial electronic messages, will neither be acknowledged nor considered.

Please note: We use AI-assisted tools to support parts of our recruitment process, including summarizing interview notes, aligning candidate profiles with job requirements, and initial resume screening. All decisions are made by our hiring team.