Senior Software Developer

Summary

Join Wealthsimple's Streaming Platform team as a Senior Software Developer and help shape a newly formed team with significant business and client impact. You will work on projects such as improving the recoverability of Flink jobs and infrastructure, leading to accurate financial metrics for clients. You'll build a platform enabling timely data project releases, creating a world-class infrastructure for scalable deployment. The team's immediate projects include strengthening Flink job reliability, enabling real-time Kafka metrics, and migrating the Temporal cluster to Kubernetes. You will have the opportunity to improve reliability and recoverability, build developer experience tools, ensure platform scalability, partner with cross-functional teams, stay updated on industry best practices, and shape the team's culture. This role requires strong knowledge of real-time data frameworks (Flink, Kafka, Temporal), cloud infrastructure experience (AWS, Kubernetes), and software/infrastructure development best practices.

Requirements

• Strong knowledge of building, maintaining and scaling real-time data ingestion and processing frameworks such as Flink, Kafka and Temporal
• Previous end-to-end experience designing, building and supporting cloud infrastructure on AWS and Kubernetes, database infrastructure or distributed systems
• Strong knowledge in both software and infrastructure development best practices, and how to leverage those to improve the developer experience
• An ability to adapt and ship meaningful work in a fast-paced environment
• 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

Responsibilities

• Improve the reliability and recoverability of our Flink jobs and Kafka infrastructure, allowing other teams to provide fast and accurate financial metrics to our clients
• Help the team to build tools that deliver a great developer experience, such as supporting tooling for our company transition to Kubernetes
• Ensure the scalability and reliability of the platform, infrastructure and tools that support our teams
• Partner deeply with our Book of Record teams, infrastructure platform and other cross-functional teams to understand their needs to deliver the next phase of our streaming infrastructure
• Keep on top of industry best practices and standards that benefit our engineering organization, and hold teams accountable to these standards
• Help shape the culture of the Streaming Platform team and technology; coach and mentor our teams on the importance and impact of our core technologies: Flink, Kafka and Temporal
• Ability to work across downstream services leveraging streaming technologies (we have a microservice architecture primarily in Ruby on Rails and Java/Kotlin)

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