Senior Software Developer, Wealthsimple
Product Developer, Full Stack
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
- Proven track record of scoping and building medium to large features for distributed systems In production
- Proficiency in code reviews and troubleshooting design or performance issues
- Solid understanding of common design patterns, relational databases (SQL), and experience working with backend and frontend development frameworks
- Comfortable with on-call duties and system maintenance
- Effective at communicating with technical and non-technical stakeholders
- The drive to help improve team documentation, champion operational excellence, and make meaningful improvements to the codebase
Desirable
- Experience working with React or React Native, Ruby on Rails, Java or Kotlin
- Working knowledge of GraphQL and Kafka
- Familiarity with frameworks such as Kubernetes and tools such as Temporal and DataDog
- Experience working on mobile development
- Experience working with banking or financial technology companies
- Background in financial technology or B2C applications
- Experience with interviewing, onboarding, and mentoring junior team members
What the job involves
- Join a team that has experience growing Wealthsimple into one of the largest FinTech players in Canada, and aims to make Wealthsimple the primary financial institution for Canadians
- Collaborate with our cross-functional teams of talented software developers, data scientists, product managers, and designers to give Wealthsimple clients delightful web and mobile experiences
- Work across the entire techstack to iteratively build, test, deploy and monitor high quality software
- Ship impactful projects and solve interesting problems on a regular basis leveraging cutting edge technology
- Service oriented architecture with over 100+ services
- Roughly half of these services are Ruby on Rails, with the other half being Java/Kotlin. The teams we are hiring for here are mostly using Ruby on Rails
- Our front-end application is a mix of React/Angular
- We host our services on Amazon Web Services and use things like RDS, Aurora, SQS, SNS, S3, Kafka, etc
- We have amazing infrastructure & security teams
- We follow best practices and have great tools for profiling, logging, tracing, tracking and experimenting
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.
Kirsty
Company Specialist
Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
-10% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
May 2021
$552.7m
LATE VC
Oct 2020
$87m
LATE VC
Total funding: $851.9m
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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