Senior Software Developer, Wealthsimple
Backend Platform
Professional investing services made simple
Job no longer available
Professional investing services made simple
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help everyone achieve financial freedom.
Role
Who you are
- We are seeking developers who thrive in the fast feedback loop of improving every system around them, listening to the experiences of other developers, and eliminating unneeded complexity
- Strong programming skills in Ruby, TypeScript, Java/Kotlin, or Python, and proven experience using these languages to deliver scalable backend tooling or frameworks
- Strong experience with microservices architecture and CI/CD pipelines, with our tech stack using Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Docker, Github Actions, Datadog and Sentry among others
- Experience with internal developer portals and tools, and a passion for creating fast, reliable, and streamlined developer experiences
- Proven ability to establish, implement and enforce backend development standards and best practices, leaning into the philosophy of “Convention over Configuration”
- 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 Backend Platform team is responsible for creating a seamless developer experience by maintaining critical tools, standards, and best practices that enable fast, reliable, and secure software delivery
- This includes managing our CI/CD pipeline, building shared libraries, enforcing quality controls, and enhancing our internal developer portal
- As part of this team, you’ll contribute to boosting developer productivity and ensuring frictionless development and deployment across the entire engineering organization
- As a Senior Backend Engineer on the Backend Platform team, you will be a part of driving our mission to create a delightful developer experience, shipping tools and frameworks that empower teams to ship features quickly, safely and reliably
- You will be at the heart of implementing the large-scale projects that continue to drive a seamless developer and user experience, such as the V2 of our CI pipeline or the development of our centralized Internal Developer Platform
- This team celebrates transparency, partnerships and execution, and you will provide mentorship and diverse perspectives to multiple teams
- Lead key Backend Platform 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
- Coach and mentor both the teams that build the backend platform and users of the platform across a variety of different tech stacks such as Ruby, Typescript , Java/Kotlin and Python
- Partner closely with our Infrastructure and InfraSec teams, helping to build the tooling for a company-wide Kubernetes migration
- Collaborate with Product to ensure we’re delivering backend tooling that can help us ship products faster with an emphasis on our clients and best-in-class developer experience
- Improve the development process for our engineering teams by keeping on top of industry trends and implementing new tools and best practices
- Participate in our hiring process and shape the growth of the Engineering team
- Join our on-call rotation to support and maintain our critical systems, demonstrating your growing expertise and commitment to our platform's reliability
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
$522m
LATE VC
Oct 2020
$87m
LATE VC
Total funding: $818m
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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