Senior Backend Software Developer

Summary

Join Wealthsimple, Canada's largest fintech company, and contribute to our mission of helping everyone achieve financial freedom. We offer a variety of roles across different teams, including Brokerage Execution, Securities, Calculation Platform, Identity Trust, and Book of Record. These teams utilize cutting-edge technologies and focus on operational excellence. We are looking for talented Backend Software Developers with experience in Java/Kotlin/Ruby on Rails, a passion for mentoring, and a proactive communication style. We offer a competitive salary, top-tier benefits, and a remote-first work environment.

Requirements

• Proven experience as a Backend Software Developer (we use Java/Kotlin/Ruby on Rails on these teams)
• Deep care and focus on operational excellence
• An inquisitive mindset: you have the desire to learn new skills, the ability to ask questions, and remain open to new ideas and perspectives
• Proactive communication skills and a willingness to work directly with designers, product managers, and other collaborators to focus on quality, testing, system design and building iteratively
• Experience in and a desire to mentor fellow developers through pairing, code review, and in-the-moment feedback

Responsibilities

• Learn about the foundations of Wealthsimple, and our current goals for the future that you will start to shape
• Have an assigned buddy within your team who will assist you in getting up-to-speed with our architecture and current projects
• Learn Wealthsimple’s technical stack and apply our development patterns and best practices through your work
• Buddy up for your first on-call rotation to help identify and resolve production issues and bugs clients have experienced
• Contribute and support work in a new or existing product and share your work with the team
• Learn how to query our data to measure the impact of your work
• Support over a million clients on their financial journey by shipping your first project or feature in a secure, and scalable way
• Contribute to or lead the technical design of a project, while understanding how it will shape our future architecture
• Collaborate with other developers on the team while mentoring and providing continuous feedback via code reviews
• Develop a big-picture perspective and understand how our tools and frameworks come together. You’ll feel comfortable contributing to various codebases
• Lead your first project: planning, scoping and regularly communicating progress to stakeholders to ensure the quality and timelines
• Have provided leverage to our engineering teams by shipping new best practices and tools for all to benefit from
• Participate in our hiring process and shape the growth of the Engineering team

Benefits

• Competitive salary with top-tier health benefits and life insurance
• Retirement savings matching plan using Wealthsimple Work
• 20 vacation days per year and unlimited sick and mental health days
• Up to $1,500 per year towards wellness and professional development budgets respectively
• 90 days away program: Employees can work internationally in eligible countries for up to 90 days per calendar year
• A wide variety of peer and company-led Employee Resource Groups (ie. Rainbow, Women of Wealthsimple, Black @ WS)
• Company-wide wellness days off scheduled throughout the year
• Remote-first team