Senior Software Developer, Wealthsimple
Platform Experience
CA$151.2-189k
+ Equity
Professional investing services made simple
Job no longer available
Professional investing services made simple
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
CA$151.2-189k
+ Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help everyone achieve financial freedom.
Role
Who you are
- 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
- We’re looking for someone who thinks big, sweats the small stuff and keeps things simple
What the job involves
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
Our take
Wealthsimple is one of a crop of robo-advisors trying to democratise 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
-10% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Oct 2025
$404.9m
LATE VC
May 2021
$552.1m
LATE VC
Total funding: $1.3bn
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
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously worked as a Business Analyst at McKinsey and then at Ancestry.com as Country Director for Canada.
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