Senior Software Developer, Bank & Brokerage Linking

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About the role

  • Senior Software Developer creating systems for financial data acquisition at Wealthsimple. Join a remote first team in a fast-paced environment focused on innovation.

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain connections to banks and brokerages in Canada through scraping, custom flows, and direct APIs.
  • Develop tools that make data acquisition more reliable and easier to scale.
  • Use AI-assisted systems to reduce manual scraping work and help the team react faster to interface changes.
  • Design systems that recover quickly when institutions change their login flows or layouts.
  • Work with product, security, infrastructure, and SRE teams to deliver accurate balances, holdings, and transactions to clients.
  • Improve our internal automation so adding and repairing institutions becomes faster over time.

Requirements

  • Experience with data acquisition or financial connectivity platforms (e.g., Plaid-style APIs, Flinks-style screen scraping, SnapTrade-style brokerage linking).
  • Strong Node.js skills, including asynchronous programming.
  • Experience building or maintaining scraping systems using headless browsers.
  • Comfort working in environments where third-party interfaces change often.
  • Understanding of authentication flows, MFA challenges, cookies, sessions, and rate limits.
  • Experience parsing complex financial data such as balances, transactions, holdings, and corporate-action adjustments.
  • Interest in building automation that reduces manual scraping and repair work.
  • Clear, steady communication with technical and non-technical teams.
  • Not afraid of support work investigating and debugging broken integrations
  • Comfort with on-call duties for critical data pipelines.

Benefits

  • Top-tier health benefits and life insurance
  • Long-term group savings with employer match using our Wealthsimple for Business platform
  • 20 vacation days + 4 wellness days per year, and unlimited sick and mental health days
  • 90 days away program: Employees can work outside of Canada for up to 90 days per calendar year
  • A wide variety of peer and company-led Employee Resources Groups (e.g., Rainbow, Women of Wealthsimple, Black @ WS)

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

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

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

JavaScriptNode.jsReact

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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