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Senior Fullstack Software Developer

Wealthsimple

Wealthsimple

Software Engineering
Toronto, ON, Canada
Posted on Wednesday, March 22, 2023
Wealthsimple is on a mission to help everyone achieve financial freedom. Using smart technology, Wealthsimple takes financial services that are often confusing, opaque and expensive and makes them simple, transparent, and low-cost. We're the company behind some of Canada's leading digital financial products, and are growing faster than ever.
Our team is reimagining what it means to manage your money. Smart, high-performing team members will challenge you to learn and grow every day. We value great work and great ideas — not ego. We're looking for talented people who love a fast-paced environment, and want to ship often and make an impact with groundbreaking ideas.
We’re a remote-first team and output is more important than face time, so where you choose to work is up to you — as long as you have internet access, you can work from anywhere in Canada. Be a part of our Canadian success story and help shape the financial future of millions — join us!
Read our Culture Manual and learn more about how we work.

Our tech stack:

  • Our primary stack is Ruby on Rails; at Wealthsimple you will be exposed to microservice architecture with over 100+ services -- these services are a mixture of Ruby on Rails, Java/Kotlin, NodeJS
  • Our team works with front end UI libraries written in React or React Native using Typescript
  • We are currently evolving our architecture to adopt event-driven design with Kafka as well as using GraphQL APIs to represent our data model
  • We host our services on Amazon Web Services and use things like RDS, Aurora, SQS, SNS, S3, Kafka, etc.
  • We follow the latest best practices and have great tools for profiling, logging, tracing, tracking and experimenting
  • We have support from frontend platform, infrastructure, security and developer tools teams with a mission to help us work smarter and more efficiently
  • We have a Redshift based data warehouse that integrates data from our back-end that allows you build tight feedback loops between what you ship and how it impacts your feature, your product and the overall company

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
  • Have an assigned buddy within your team that will assist you in getting up-to-speed with our architecture and current projects

Within 3 months, you'll:

  • Learn Wealthsimple’s technical stack and apply our development patterns and best practices through your work
  • Buddy up for your first on-call rotation to help identify and resolve production issues and bugs clients have experienced
  • Contribute and support work in a new or existing product and share your work with the team
  • Learn how to query our data to measure the impact of your work
  • Support over a million clients on their financial journey by shipping your first project or feature in a secure, and scalable way 🚀

Within 6 months, you'll:

  • Reliably ship new features to our clients, end users or other engineering teams, following our best practices such as shipping daily, writing automated tests and monitoring
  • Contribute to or lead the technical design of a project, while understanding how it will shape our future architecture
  • Collaborate with other developers on the team while mentoring and providing continuous feedback via code reviews
  • Develop a big picture perspective and understand how our tools and frameworks come together. You’ll feel comfortable contributing to various codebases

Within 12 months, you'll:

  • Lead your first project: planning, scoping and regularly communicating progress to stakeholders to ensure the quality and timeliness
  • Have provided leverage to our engineering teams by shipping new best practices and tools for all to benefit from
  • Participate in our hiring process and shape the growth of the Engineering team
  • Have worked closely with our product and design teams, contributing your own feedback and opinions on design and UX