Senior Frontend Software Engineer, Wealthsimple
Options Trading
Salary not provided
React
TypeScript
React Native
GraphQL
Apollo
Senior and Expert level
Remote from Canada
Professional investing services made simple
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Professional investing services made simple
1001+ employees
FintechB2CPersonal financeInvestingFinancial ServicesSocial Impact
Be an early applicant
Salary not provided
React
TypeScript
React Native
GraphQL
Apollo
Senior and Expert level
Remote from Canada
1001+ employees
FintechB2CPersonal financeInvestingFinancial ServicesSocial Impact
Company mission
To help everyone achieve financial freedom.
Role
Who you are
- Proven experience as a Frontend Software Developer
- Experience with our key technologies: React, React Native and TypeScript
- 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
- Experience with GraphQL (Apollo) and with optimizing performance is a nice to have!
What the job involves
- 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
- The vision of the Options team is to deliver the most intuitive and user-friendly Options trading platform in Canada! We have already made a great start but we are always working to improve our product to create the best-in-class Options-trading platform
- On this team, you will work with a talented, full-stack engineering team and collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Design and Operations to expand our offering of Options trading strategies and provide more ways to explore and trade Options (i.e. on our web platform as well as the mobile app)
- Our Tech Stack:
- Front end UI libraries written in React or React Native
- Event-driven design with Kafka as well as using GraphQL APIs to represent our data models
- We host our services on AWS and use things like RDS, Aurora, SQS, SNS, S3, Kafka, etc
- We follow the latest best practices and have great tools for profiling, logging, tracing, tracking, and experimenting
- Exposure to microservice architecture - these services are a mixture of Ruby on Rails, Java/Kotlin, NodeJS
- Within 1 month you'll:
- Learn about the foundations of Wealthsimple, and our current goals for the future that you will start to shape
- Meet other new Wealthsimplers in your onboarding group and key people from each department, to start to build relationships across the company
- Gather an understanding of our technology by pair-programming with your teammates and attending engineering onboarding sessions designed and presented by your peers
- Have an assigned buddy within your team that will assist you in getting up-to-speed with our architecture and current projects
- Within 3 months you'll:
- 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:
- Reliably ship new features to our clients, following our best practices such as shipping daily, writing automated tests and monitoring
- 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
- Have worked closely with our product and design teams, contributing your own feedback and opinions on design and UX
Our take
Wealthsimple is one of a crop of robo-advisors trying to democratize investment management. These companies are disrupting the industry by automating many of the processes involved in investment removing the need for human advisors.
But while other so-called robo-advisors are focused on courting the high end of the market, Wealthsimple is trying to provide the same types of tools and advice to all users, regardless of the amount they have to invest.
Wealthsimple does have higher fees than some other robo-advisors such as Betterment and Charles Schwab. However, the company believes that it provides a more user-friendly platform, tailored to millennials who will be attracted to Wealthsimple due to its ease of use and social impact offerings.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Top investors
-10% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Oct 2025
$393.2m
LATE VC
May 2021
$536.2m
LATE VC
Total funding: $1.2bn
Company benefits
- Retirement savings matching plan through Wealthsimple Work
- Company equity for full-time employees
- Access to Premium Client perks, including personal finance learning & advice and a boosted interest rate on deposits
- Paid parental leave (6 months topped up to 100% of salary)
- 20 vacation days per year
- 90 Days Away program
- Top-tier health benefits
- Life & disability insurance
- Generous sick and mental health days
- Employee resource plan including services like RMT, psychology, and physiotherapy
- Up to $5,000 per year for mental health supports
- Gender Affirmation benefits
- Up to $1,500 per year for professional development
- Up to $1,500 per year for wellness and home office expenses
- Employee resource groups
- Social impact hours
Company HQ
Fashion District, Toronto, ON
Leadership
Michael Katchen
(CEO)Previously worked as a Business Analyst at McKinsey and then at Ancestry.com as Country Director for Canada.
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