Senior Software Developer, Wealthsimple
Build Platform
Professional investing services made simple
Open for applications
Professional investing services made simple
1001+ employees
Open for applications
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help everyone achieve financial freedom.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of experience in software development as part of a team, preferably a platform-oriented team
- 7+ years experience with any of the following: Ruby, Python, Typescript, Kotlin
- Experience designing, building, and maintaining internal libraries, frameworks, or tooling used by other engineering teams
- A forward-thinking mindset and a passion for applying modern technology. You're naturally curious about the latest industry trends and are always exploring how they can be used to create a best-in-class development experience
- Curiosity and a deep interest in a fast, reliable, streamlined developer experience. You're driven to understand your users, eliminate complexity, and build elegant solutions to their pain points
- A collaborative spirit and a passion for mentorship. You believe in making your colleagues successful and enjoy coaching other developers
- A data-informed approach to decision-making. You are comfortable using metrics to identify opportunities and measure the impact of your work
What the job involves
- At Wealthsimple, the Build Platform team is on a mission to make developing great software fast, intuitive, and enjoyable
- We believe engineers should focus on building incredible features for our clients, not fighting their environment
- Our job is to clear the path
- We do this by treating our platform as a product
- Our internal developers are our customers, and their success is our primary measure of impact
- As a Developer on our team, you won't just be building tools; you'll be shaping the entire developer journey at Wealthsimple
- From their first day onboarding to their thousandth code submission, you'll be making the experience seamless
- You will support a diverse engineering organization that uses Ruby, Python, Kotlin, and TypeScript to build the future of finance
- Your work will directly empower hundreds of developers to ship high-quality, secure code to millions of users with confidence and speed
- Pioneer new ways to improve developer productivity by leveraging emerging technologies like AI to optimize workflows, improve test coverage and reduce friction in the development lifecycle
- Shape the next generation of our development environments. A key focus will be on rolling out and enhancing containerized development environments across hundreds of services to drastically reduce setup time, eliminate "works on my machine" issues, and create a consistent, powerful local development experience for all engineers
- Modernize core internal libraries and tooling. This includes improving our command-line interface to automate developer machine setup, sunsetting legacy tools in favor of safer, auditable alternatives, and evolving the shared libraries that underpin our microservices architecture
- Define and measure operational excellence at scale. You'll help build automated scorecards that give every team clear, actionable insights into the health of their services, covering everything from dependency management to monitoring and scalability
- Elevate our testing infrastructure. You'll get to evolve how our teams test complex systems, such as by building robust backend mocking solutions to increase end-to-end test stability and by enabling isolated testing of asynchronous, event-driven workflows in ephemeral environments
- Champion engineering best practices by partnering with teams across Wealthsimple to deliver platform improvements that increase their velocity and confidence
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 9 rounds)
Oct 2025
$399.2m
LATE VC
May 2021
$544.4m
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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