Senior Software Developer, Wealthsimple
Database Solutions
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
- 3+ years experience as a database solution architect. This may include, but is not limited to, prior roles in solutions architecture, software engineering, or software development
- Experience with AWS Aurora Postgres, Redis, Enterprise Redis, AWS Elasticache and NoSQL databases like DynamoDB
- Proficiency in Python, data transformation and data migration
- An ability to understand how to organize and consolidate customers' data in various formats and from various source applications
- Experience with database performance tuning and optimization
- Ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions
- Experience with design and implementation of high performance systems with reliable monitoring and logging
What the job involves
- Data-Stores team is a part of the Platform Engineering team in Wealthsimple with the mandate of strengthening our data infrastructure through stewardship of all our storage systems, including: Oracle EBS, Aurora Postgres RDS, DynamoDB and Redis
- The team set and standardize best practices, administer and build tools to improve the reliability, scalability, and usability of these systems
- Partner with stakeholders across different product domains, infrastructure, and leadership, driving data related technical problems at scale
- Design, Administer, Maintain, monitor and conduct performance tuning efforts for data systems such as AWS Aurora Postgres, Redis/Elasticache, DynamoDB, Oracle, etc
- Design and implement backup and recovery plans
- Ensure Data stores scalability and reliability through proactive analysis and thorough capacity planning
- Work in partnership with stakeholders to understand client integration requirements and business processes with our data stores
- Ensure the reliability, security, and performance of integration solutions through rigorous testing and quality assurance
- Create and maintain detailed technical documentation, including technical specifications, code documentation, and progress reports
- Work with a large amount of autonomy to set the technical direction for scalable projects
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.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
-10% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
May 2021
$521m
LATE VC
Oct 2020
$87m
LATE VC
Total funding: $818.3m
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
Articles
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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