Senior Software Developer

Summary

Join Wealthsimple, Canada's largest fintech company, and contribute to our mission of helping everyone achieve financial freedom. We are seeking talented Full Stack or Front-end Software Developers to join our product engineering teams. You will work with a cutting-edge tech stack, including React, TypeScript, Ruby on Rails, and AWS services. We offer a collaborative and supportive environment with opportunities for professional growth and development. As a Wealthsimpler, you'll be part of a remote-first team making a real impact on the financial lives of millions. We provide competitive compensation and benefits, including comprehensive health insurance, retirement savings matching, generous paid time off, and professional development stipends.

Requirements

• Proven experience as a Full Stack OR Front-end Software Developer
• Experience with our key technologies - Front-end: React and TypeScript
• Experience with our key technologies - Full Stack: React, TypeScript, Ruby on Rails
• 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
• Meet other new Wealthsimplers in your onboarding group and key people from each department, to start to build relationships across the company
• Gather an understanding of our technology by pair-programming with your teammates and attending engineering onboarding sessions designed and presented by your peers
• Have an assigned buddy within your team that 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
• Reliably ship new features to our clients, following our best practices such as shipping daily, writing automated tests and monitoring
• 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 timeliness
• 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
• Have worked closely with our product and design teams, contributing your own feedback and opinions on design and UX

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with GraphQL (Apollo) and with optimizing performance

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