Senior Backend Software Developer

Summary

Join Wealthsimple's Order Execution team as a Senior Backend Software Developer and lead projects, optimize code, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver a high-performance client experience. You will work with a small, collaborative team focused on learning and development, impacting design and UX through cross-functional collaboration. This role involves shipping new features, improving development processes, and participating in the hiring process. Wealthsimple offers competitive salaries, top-tier health benefits, retirement savings matching, generous vacation time, wellness and professional development budgets, an international work program, employee resource groups, and company-wide wellness days off. We are a remote-first team with over 1,000 employees across North America.

Requirements

• Strong programming skills in Java/Kotlin, and proven experience using these languages to deliver robust and well-designed APIs for web and mobile applications
• Deep experience with relational databases, including performance tuning
• A deep understanding and coding execution on complex projects at scale
• A collaborative and open approach to communication: you are experienced in delivering clear, concise and solution-focused messages, that are easily understood by a cross-discipline team
• A passion for mentorship: you love empowering other developers while learning new skills

Responsibilities

• Lead projects which include planning, scoping and regularly communicating progress to stakeholders to ensure the quality and timelines
• Optimize our code, delivering highly performant, efficient systems and databases that support our clients
• Partner closely with our product and design teams, impacting our design and UX through cross-functional collaboration
• Ship new features to our clients efficiently and reliably, following our best practices and values such as Shipping Daily, Keeping It Simple and being a Maker Owner
• Improve the development process for our engineering teams by keeping on top of industry trends and implementing new tools and best practices
• Participate in our hiring process and shape the growth and culture 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