As a Senior Software Developer, you'll improve product reliability, collaborate with product teams, and design system components focusing on reliability and maintainability.
Build something people love
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 and expensive and make them transparent and low-cost for everyone. We’re the largest fintech company in Canada, with 3+ million users who trust us with more than $100 billion in assets. And we’re just getting started.
We’re looking for someone who thinks big, sweats the small stuff and keeps things simple. You’ll join a high-bar, fast-paced team where people are trusted to own their work, communicate openly, and ship things that improve our clients’ lives. Collaboration, humility, and an obsession over quality are how we get stuff done.
About the Platform Experience Team
The Platform Experience team sits as a bridge between Platform and Product engineering. We enable product teams to ship reliable code by partnering directly with developers to solve production challenges and with implementation of systematic improvements. We're central to Wealthsimple's reliability mission: when our products are reliable, clients trust us with their financial future. We focus on protecting critical flows, reducing time to detect and resolve incidents, and ensuring we learn from every issue to prevent recurrence.
About the Senior Software Developer Role
Reporting to the Manager of Software Development, you'll work alongside a senior group of Software Developers to improve reliability across Wealthsimple's products. You'll take ownership of significant components and services, partnering with product teams to identify and resolve production issues. This role offers the opportunity to work across the full stack, contribute to platform primitives that make reliability the default, and help maintain Wealthsimple’s high standard for security, reliability and user experience.
In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to
- Partner directly with product engineers to diagnose and resolve production issues, building solutions that prevent recurrence
- Take end-to-end ownership of system components, designing with reliability and maintainability as primary concerns
- Contribute to platform tools and frameworks that help all engineers ship reliably
- Collaborate with Platform, Product, and Data partners to align technical decisions with client needs
- Help establish technical standards and best practices for development at Wealthsimple
What you’ll bring
- 6+ years of software development experience building products with demonstrated growth in technical scope and autonomy
- Experience in optimizing platform engineering and/or infrastructure
- Knowledge of 2 or more of the following languages: Ruby on Rails / TypeScript / Kotlin
- Experience using LLMs to drive broad changes across codebases (Claude)
- Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to tackle complex issues across multiple systems and keen interest in getting to the root cause
- Experience designing and maintaining production systems with high availability requirements
- Strong communication and collaboration skills. You can explain complex technical concepts clearly and work effectively with stakeholders across different backgrounds
Compensation & Equity
🤑 Base salary range: For this role, candidates located in Canada can expect a base salary range of CAD $151,200 - $189,000. Actual compensation is determined based on skills, experience, and role level. Exceptional candidates may be considered above the top of the range, and pay can increase quickly for those who make a big impact in the role.
🚀 Total compensation: In addition to base salary, this role includes equity compensation. We use clear job levels and market-based salary bands to ensure compensation is fair and consistent across the company.
Why Wealthsimple?
🌸 Top-tier health benefits and life insurance
📈 Long-term group savings with employer match using our Wealthsimple for Business platform
🌴 20 vacation days + 4 wellness days per year, and unlimited sick and mental health days
✈️ 90 days away program: Employees can work outside of Canada for up to 90 days per calendar year
👥 A wide variety of peer and company-led Employee Resources Groups (e.g., Rainbow, Women of Wealthsimple, Black @ WS)
🌎 We’re a remote first team with over 1,500 employees across North America - and one of the best things about working here is the people. You’ll be collaborating with incredibly talented, curious, and driven teammates who care deeply about doing great work.
Be a part of our Canadian success story and help shape the financial future of millions.
Read our Culture Manual and learn more about how we work.
Technology & Innovation at Wealthsimple
We believe the future belongs to those who innovate boldly. At Wealthsimple, every team member is expected to lean into new technologies, including AI, and tooling to rethink how we work, solve problems faster, and create even greater value. We're looking for people who are not just comfortable with change but energized by it. Our commitment is to build a company that evolves at the pace of the world around us, and we want you to help lead that future.
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.
At Wealthsimple, we want interviews to feel like genuine conversations. To support this, we use AI transcription during recruiter interviews. This allows recruiters to be fully engaged, ask thoughtful follow-up questions, and ensure your experiences are captured accurately. You’ll always have the choice to opt in or out before we begin.
Top Skills
Kotlin
Ruby On Rails
Typescript
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