Staff Software Engineer, Observability Platform

🕒 July 23

🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Wealthsimple

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2014

💼 Consulting

🛡️ Insurance

💳 Fintech

🔥 Funding within the last year

💰 $393M Series E - Wealthsimple on 2025-10

Consulting • Insurance • Fintech

Wealthsimple is a Canadian financial technology company that provides consumer banking, investing, and wealth management services. It offers chequing accounts, savings, credit cards, self-directed trading (stocks, ETFs, options), cryptocurrency trading, managed portfolios, tax services, and advisory wealth management for high-net-worth clients. Wealthsimple combines digital-first banking and low-fee investing products aimed at retail customers, along with tools and educational content to support personal finance.

📋 Description

• Design and build the events-first foundation • Build the SDKs and golden paths • Set the technical standards • Make production legible to AI agents • Move fast with AI tooling • Work confidently in ambiguity • Prove value through experiments • Raise the bar for others

🎯 Requirements

• Significant software engineering experience, typically 8+ years, with a software development background rather than a primarily operations or systems-administration one • A hands-on, current coder in more than one language such as Kotlin and Ruby • Direct experience building an observability or telemetry platform and its SDKs before • Depth in event-based and high-cardinality systems • Fluency with open standards and instrumentation • Comfort making significant changes in ambiguous codebases • Proficiency with AI coding tools and LLMs • Strong communication and influence • Nice to have: Experience in a regulated or fintech environment, familiarity with Kubernetes and progressive delivery such as Argo Rollouts, experience with columnar stores such as ClickHouse, and experience building observability for LLM and agent-based workloads.

🏖️ Benefits

• Top-tier health benefits and life insurance • Long-term group savings with employer match, through Wealthsimple for Business • 20 vacation days, 4 wellness days, and unlimited sick and mental health days per year • 90 days away: work outside Canada for up to 90 days per year • Employee resource groups, including Rainbow (2SLGBTQ), Women of WS, and Black at WS • Hybrid team with over 1,500 employees across North America