Senior Software Developer, Wealthsimple

• Proven track record of scoping and building medium to large features for distributed systems In production
• Proficiency in code reviews and troubleshooting design or performance issues
• Solid understanding of common design patterns, relational databases (SQL), and experience working with backend and frontend development frameworks
• Comfortable with on-call duties and system maintenance
• Effective at communicating with technical and non-technical stakeholders
• The drive to help improve team documentation, champion operational excellence, and make meaningful improvements to the codebase

Desirable

• Join a team that has experience growing Wealthsimple into one of the largest FinTech players in Canada, and aims to make Wealthsimple the primary financial institution for Canadians
• Collaborate with our cross-functional teams of talented software developers, data scientists, product managers, and designers to give Wealthsimple clients delightful web and mobile experiences
• Work across the entire techstack to iteratively build, test, deploy and monitor high quality software
• Ship impactful projects and solve interesting problems on a regular basis leveraging cutting edge technology
• Service oriented architecture with over 100+ services
• Roughly half of these services are Ruby on Rails, with the other half being Java/Kotlin. The teams we are hiring for here are mostly using Ruby on Rails
• Our front-end application is a mix of React/Angular
• We host our services on Amazon Web Services and use things like RDS, Aurora, SQS, SNS, S3, Kafka, etc
• We have amazing infrastructure & security teams
• We follow best practices and have great tools for profiling, logging, tracing, tracking and experimenting