Senior Software Developer, Product Engineering

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Wealthsimple

πŸ“Remote - Worldwide

Summary

Join Wealthsimple, a leading Canadian fintech company, and contribute to our mission of achieving financial freedom for everyone. As a developer, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver exceptional web and mobile experiences for our clients. You will work on impactful projects, utilizing cutting-edge technologies and a diverse tech stack, including Ruby on Rails, Java/Kotlin, React/Angular, and AWS services. This role requires proficiency in backend and frontend development, experience with distributed systems, and a solid understanding of design patterns and relational databases. You will also be involved in system maintenance, codebase improvements, and mentoring junior team members. Wealthsimple offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and a remote-first work environment.

Requirements

  • Proven track record of scoping and building medium to large features for distributed systems In production
  • Proficiency in code reviews and troubleshooting design or performance issues
  • Solid understanding of common design patterns, relational databases (SQL), and experience working with backend and frontend development frameworks
  • Comfortable with on-call duties and system maintenance
  • Effective at communicating with technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • The drive to help improve team documentation, champion operational excellence, and make meaningful improvements to the codebase

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with our cross-functional teams of talented software developers, data scientists, product managers, and designers to give Wealthsimple clients delightful web and mobile experiences
  • Ship impactful projects and solve interesting problems on a regular basis leveraging cutting edge technology
  • Work across the entire techstack to iteratively build, test, deploy and monitor high quality software

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience working with React or React Native, Ruby on Rails, Java, Kotlin, and/or Python
  • Working knowledge of GraphQL and Kafka
  • Familiarity with frameworks such as Kubernetes and tools such as Temporal and DataDog
  • Experience working on mobile development
  • Experience working with banking or financial technology companies
  • Background in financial technology or B2C applications
  • Experience with interviewing, onboarding, and mentoring junior team members

Benefits

  • Competitive salary with top-tier health benefits and life insurance
  • Retirement savings matching plan using Wealthsimple for Business
  • 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

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