Senior Software Developer, Wealthsimple
Streaming Platform
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
- Strong knowledge of building, maintaining and scaling real-time data ingestion and processing frameworks such as Flink, Kafka and Temporal
- Previous end-to-end experience designing, building and supporting cloud infrastructure on AWS and Kubernetes, database infrastructure or distributed systems
- Strong knowledge in both software and infrastructure development best practices, and how to leverage those to improve the developer experience
- An ability to adapt and ship meaningful work in a fast-paced environment
- 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
What the job involves
- As a Senior Software Developer on the Streaming Platform team, you will be joining and helping to shape a newly formed team with huge business and client impact
- This takes shape with projects such as improving the recoverability of our Flink jobs and infrastructure, leading to extremely accurate financial metrics for our clients and their experience within the app
- You will be empowered to build the platform that enables timely release of our data projects, that will not only evolve the service of our platform team, but create a world-class, performant and reliable infrastructure for our teams to build and deploy at scale
- Improve the reliability and recoverability of our Flink jobs and Kafka infrastructure, allowing other teams to provide fast and accurate financial metrics to our clients
- Help the team to build tools that deliver a great developer experience, such as supporting tooling for our company transition to Kubernetes
- Ensure the scalability and reliability of the platform, infrastructure and tools that support our teams
- Partner deeply with our Book of Record teams, infrastructure platform and other cross-functional teams to understand their needs to deliver the next phase of our streaming infrastructure
- Keep on top of industry best practices and standards that benefit our engineering organization, and hold teams accountable to these standards
- Help shape the culture of the Streaming Platform team and technology; coach and mentor our teams on the importance and impact of our core technologies: Flink, Kafka and Temporal
- Ability to work across downstream services leveraging streaming technologies (we have a microservice architecture primarily in Ruby on Rails and Java/Kotlin)
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
$541.8m
LATE VC
Oct 2020
$87m
LATE VC
Total funding: $841.7m
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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