Senior Software Developer, Wealthsimple
Clients & Accounts
CA$151.2-189k
Offers Equity
Professional investing services made simple
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Professional investing services made simple
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
CA$151.2-189k
Offers Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help everyone achieve financial freedom.
Role
Who you are
- If you are an expert front-end developer who obsesses over meticulous polish and world-class user experience, this is your chance to lead our continued pursuit of excellence
- This role requires a visionary who can deliver significant advances in both cutting-edge UX and robust, extensible frontend architecture
- Expert experience with Typescript, React, React Native, and familiarity with modern frontend state management, testing, and bundling tools
- Experience with native mobile development is a plus
- Experience building and operating scalable frontend components and services
- Experience with frontend performance profiling and optimization
- Nice to have experience with backend languages like Ruby / SQL / Java (Kotlin) and GraphQL, reflecting the occasional need to touch backend code to serve frontend work
What the job involves
- Join the team responsible for defining the gold standard of financial onboarding in Canada
- We are not just building forms; we are transforming a classically painful experience, opening a bank account, into a truly magical and seamless journey
- You will be instrumental in two critical areas: first, architecting and scaling our foundational frontend SDKs that empower other teams to efficiently compose their unique onboarding flows; and second, directly developing core, complex components like Know Your Client (KYC), Identity Verification (IDV), and agreement signing
- While your focus will be purely on the front-end, comfort with occasionally adjusting adjacent backend code is a valuable asset in maintaining end-to-end efficiency
- Within 1 month, you'll:
- Learn about the foundations of Wealthsimple, and our current goals for the future that you will start to shape
- Meet other new Wealthsimplers in your onboarding group and key people from each department, to start to build relationships across the company
- Gather an understanding of our technology by pair-programming with your teammates and attending engineering onboarding sessions designed and presented by your peers
- Complete your first feature implementation and ship your first meaningful contributions to production
- Within 3 months, you'll:
- Consistently deliver high-quality code with minimal need for unblocking, demonstrating strong ownership of the end-to-end feature lifecycle
- Buddy up for your first on-call rotation to help identify and resolve production issues and bugs clients have experienced
- Support over a million clients on their financial journey by shipping your first project or feature in a secure, and scalable way.
- You are actively developing a deep understanding of our business objectives and key technical challenges, enabling you to proactively identify areas for improvement and propose future solutions
- Within 6 months, you'll:
- Lead the planning, technical design, and execution of a major feature or initiative, ensuring alignment with our frontend architectural north star
- Effectively break down large technical work items, develop medium to long-term plans, and delegate tasks to maintain high team throughput
- Reliably ship new features to our clients, following our best practices such as shipping daily, writing automated tests and monitoring
- Collaborate with other developers on the team while mentoring and providing continuous feedback via code reviews
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
$393.6m
LATE VC
May 2021
$536.8m
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
(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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