Senior Software Developer, Platform Experience

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About the role

  • Senior Software Developer responsible for enhancing reliability through code improvements at Wealthsimple. Collaborating with product teams and taking ownership of significant components and services.

Responsibilities

  • Partner directly with product engineers to diagnose and resolve production issues, building solutions that prevent recurrence
  • Take end-to-end ownership of system components, designing with reliability and maintainability as primary concerns
  • Contribute to platform tools and frameworks that help all engineers ship reliably
  • Collaborate with Platform, Product, and Data partners to align technical decisions with client needs
  • Help establish technical standards and best practices for development at Wealthsimple

Requirements

  • 6+ years of software development experience building products with demonstrated growth in technical scope and autonomy
  • Experience in optimizing platform engineering and/or infrastructure
  • Knowledge of 2 or more of the following languages: Ruby on Rails / TypeScript / Kotlin
  • Experience using LLMs to drive broad changes across codebases (Claude)
  • Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to tackle complex issues across multiple systems and keen interest in getting to the root cause
  • Experience designing and maintaining production systems with high availability requirements
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills. You can explain complex technical concepts clearly and work effectively with stakeholders across different backgrounds

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

KotlinRubyRuby on RailsTypeScript

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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