Senior Software Developer, Build Platform

November 20

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Wealthsimple

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Finance • Fintech • Investing

Wealthsimple is a financial technology company based in Canada that offers a range of investment and financial services. They provide managed investing options with custom portfolios tailored to individual goals, and offer self-directed investing to take control of trading stocks, ETFs, and cryptocurrencies commission-free. Wealthsimple also provides high-interest cash accounts, various retirement savings accounts, and a comprehensive set of tools for personal finance management. With over 3 million users, they emphasize low fees, transparency, and personalized financial advice.

501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2014

💸 Finance

💳 Fintech

💰 Private Equity Round on 2021-05

📋 Description

• Pioneer new ways to improve developer productivity by leveraging emerging technologies like AI to optimize workflows, improve test coverage and reduce friction in the development lifecycle. • Shape the next generation of our development environments. A key focus will be on rolling out and enhancing containerized development environments across hundreds of services to drastically reduce setup time, eliminate 'works on my machine' issues, and create a consistent, powerful local development experience for all engineers. • Modernize core internal libraries and tooling. This includes improving our command-line interface to automate developer machine setup, sunsetting legacy tools in favor of safer, auditable alternatives, and evolving the shared libraries that underpin our microservices architecture. • Define and measure operational excellence at scale. You'll help build automated scorecards that give every team clear, actionable insights into the health of their services, covering everything from dependency management to monitoring and scalability. • Elevate our testing infrastructure. You'll get to evolve how our teams test complex systems, such as by building robust backend mocking solutions to increase end-to-end test stability and by enabling isolated testing of asynchronous, event-driven workflows in ephemeral environments. • Champion engineering best practices by partnering with teams across Wealthsimple to deliver platform improvements that increase their velocity and confidence.

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in software development as part of a team, preferably a platform-oriented team. • 7+ years experience with any of the following: Ruby, Python, Typescript, Kotlin. • Experience designing, building, and maintaining internal libraries, frameworks, or tooling used by other engineering teams. • A forward-thinking mindset and a passion for applying modern technology. You're naturally curious about the latest industry trends and are always exploring how they can be used to create a best-in-class development experience. • Curiosity and a deep interest in a fast, reliable, streamlined developer experience. You're driven to understand your users, eliminate complexity, and build elegant solutions to their pain points. • A collaborative spirit and a passion for mentorship. You believe in making your colleagues successful and enjoy coaching other developers. • A data-informed approach to decision-making. You are comfortable using metrics to identify opportunities and measure the impact of your work.

🏖️ 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