Senior Software Developer, Wealthsimple
Reliability
Professional investing services made simple
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Professional investing services made simple
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help everyone achieve financial freedom.
Role
Who you are
- Proven experience building, evolving, and maintaining large, reliable, and scalable systems
- Deep experience across the stack, approaching problems with a Reliability mindset. Our tech stack includes Ruby, Java/Kotlin, NodeJS, AWS and Kubernetes (among others)
- Proven ability to establish, implement and enforce backend development standards and best practices
- A collaborative and open approach to communication: you are experienced in delivering clear, concise and solution-focused messages, that are easily understood by a cross-discipline team
- A passion for mentorship: you love empowering other developers across various teams while learning new skills
What the job involves
- The Reliability Engineering team empowers service owners to get their new features and products into the hands of clients while ensuring that Wealthsimple remains reliable
- We create tooling, frameworks and processes for teams to measure, analyze and improve the reliability and resiliency of their services
- We have an exciting mandate of high impact projects that will continue to empower developers and bring financial freedom to millions of Canadians!
- As a Senior Software Developer - Reliability, you will take ownership of the creation and maintenance of a suite of Reliability tools that empower all teams across Wealthsimple
- As our business, products and clients grow, your impact in shaping our technical implementations and cultural narrative is key to delivering true value to Wealthsimple clients
- This narrative could include data-driven insights, designing highly performant systems, or rolling out various SLOs/SLAs
- You will have a big impact on achieving our priority for this year: deliver a reliable, error-free product experience!
- Lead key Reliability projects which include planning, scoping and regularly communicating progress to stakeholders to ensure quality and timelines
- Develop and continuously improve code, delivering highly performant, efficient systems and tooling that support your clients, our Developers and Users
- Provide high quality data and observability metrics for a variety of stakeholders
- Coach and mentor users of our services across a variety of different tech stacks such as Ruby, Typescript, Java/Kotlin and Python
- Foster and evolve Reliability culture through automation, incident management and cross-discipline collaboration
- Stay up to date with the latest industry trends and technologies in SRE, operations, and Infrastructure in order to offer best-in-class solutions for our customers
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
-10% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
May 2021
$521.7m
LATE VC
Oct 2020
$87m
LATE VC
Total funding: $820.5m
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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