Senior Software Developer – Platform Engineering

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About the role

  • Join Wealthsimple as a Senior Software Developer to build systems that enhance developer productivity. Work remotely to design, build, and improve production-grade distributed systems.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build production-grade distributed systems
  • Own technical architecture in your domain (Platform or Data)
  • Improve reliability, scalability, and performance of core systems
  • Work closely with internal users (engineers or data practitioners)
  • Participate in operational ownership (on-call where applicable)
  • Lead projects end-to-end from design to production

Requirements

  • 7+ years building production systems
  • Strong experience in distributed systems or data-intensive systems
  • Experience owning system design decisions
  • Operational experience (production support, incidents, debugging)
  • Experience building systems used by other engineers or data teams
  • Cloud infrastructure experience (AWS/GCP/Kubernetes) - Nice to Have
  • CI/CD or developer tooling experience (Platform track) - Nice to Have
  • dbt, Airflow, Snowflake, or similar tools (Data track) - Nice to Have
  • Observability, reliability engineering, or data quality systems - Nice to Have
  • Experience working across both domains (not required) - Nice to Have

Benefits

  • Top-tier health benefits and life insurance
  • Long-term group savings with employer match, through Wealthsimple for Business
  • 20 vacation days, 4 wellness days, and unlimited sick and mental health days per year
  • 90 days away: work outside Canada for up to 90 days per year
  • Employee resource groups, including Rainbow (2SLGBTQ), Women of WS, and Black at WS

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

CA$151,200 - CA$189,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

AirflowAWSCloudDistributed SystemsGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetes

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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