Senior Backend Software Developer

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Wealthsimple is on a mission to help everyone achieve financial freedom by reimagining what it means to manage your money. Using smart technology, we take financial services that are often confusing, opaque and expensive and make them transparent and low-cost for everyone. We’re the largest fintech company in Canada, with over 4 million users who trust us with more than $50 billion in assets.

Our teams ship often and make an impact with groundbreaking ideas. We're looking for talented people who keep it simple and value collaboration and humility as we continue to create inclusive and high-performing teams where people can be inspired to do their best work.

ABOUT THE TEAM(s)

Brokerage Execution is responsible for executing trades on the market on behalf of our clients, automating clearing, settlement, optimizing the revenue earned from lending shares to other Financial Institutions and maintaining our client positions after the trade was executed on the public markets for millions of dollars every day. Our clients - are internal back office operations specialists. Our goal is to automate their work as much as possible so that even when new products are launched, or we add more clients, the back office operations team stays constant in size

Securities plays a critical role in powering all things securities data across the organization. From providing lightning-fast, highly accurate pricing and metadata to integrating with third-party data providers, this team is the backbone of our internal and client-facing applications. They're responsible for everything from stocks and options to crypto, making complex data simple and scalable.

Calculation Platform delivers the core financial metrics that power our client experience and internal operations. We build a centralized, reliable platform that processes billions of ledger rows to provide accurate, real-time and historical financial data via robust APIs. As a collaborative team, we leverage Java/Kotlin, PostgreSQL, Apache Flink and Kubernetes to ensure accuracy, reliability, and scalability. We seek passionate maker-owners eager to work on complex systems and contribute to our mission of being the definitive source of financial truth

The Identity Trust safeguards Wealthsimple's platform by managing user access and permissions. This includes verifying user identities, determining access privileges, and implementing any necessary additional verification steps. They ensure only authorized users can access the platform and perform permitted actions. This team plays a crucial role in maintaining the security and integrity of Wealthsimple's services.

The Book of Record serves as the definitive source for all client financial data within our ecosystem. We provide a "ledger as a service," ensuring accurate tracking of financial transactions and balances across our products. Our team is responsible for generating key financial metrics, including earnings and performance reports, and delivering unified tax documents to clients. By establishing a secure and controlled single source of truth, we enable clients to access their financial information seamlessly across our products.

Skills we’re looking for:

• Proven experience as a Backend Software Developer (we use Java/Kotlin/Ruby on Rails on these teams).
• 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.
• We are looking for individuals with multiple

Within 3 months, you'll:

• Learn about the foundations of Wealthsimple, and our current goals for the future that you will start to shape.
• Have an assigned buddy within your team who 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. 🚀

Within 6 months, you'll:

• 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.

Within 12 months, you'll:

• Lead your first project: planning, scoping and regularly communicating progress to stakeholders to ensure the quality and timelines.
• 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.

Please submit your application before 4 pm EST March 7th

Successful candidates will be contacted after on or after the week of March 17th.

Why Wealthsimple?

🤑 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

We’re a remote-first team, with over 1,000 employees coast to coast in North America. Be a part of our Canadian success story and help shape the financial future of millions — join us!

Read our Culture Manual and learn more about how we work.

DEI Statement

At Wealthsimple, we are building products for a diverse world and we need a diverse team to do that successfully. We strongly encourage applications from everyone regardless of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status. 

Accessibility Statement

Wealthsimple provides an accessible candidate experience. If you need any accommodations or adjustments throughout the interview process and beyond, please let us know, and we will work with you to provide the necessary support and make reasonable accommodations to facilitate your participation. We are continuously working to improve our accessibility practices and welcome any feedback or suggestions on how we can better accommodate candidates with accessibility needs.