Senior Backend Software Developer

Wealthsimple Digital Assets Inc.; Old Toronto; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking fintech company on a mission to redefine financial services! As a Senior Backend Developer, you will play a crucial role in building and maintaining systems that power investment products and trading operations. Your expertise in Java, Kotlin, or Ruby on Rails will help drive automation and efficiency in our backend processes. Collaborate with a diverse team, contribute to impactful projects, and support over a million clients on their financial journeys. With a commitment to operational excellence and a culture that values collaboration, this is an exciting opportunity to shape the future of finance while enjoying a competitive salary and generous benefits.

Benefits

Top-tier health benefits

Life insurance

Retirement savings matching plan

20 vacation days per year

Unlimited sick and mental health days

Wellness budget

Professional development budget

90 days away program

Company-wide wellness days off

Diversity and Inclusion initiatives

Qualifications

• Proven experience in backend development with Java, Kotlin, or Ruby on Rails.
• Strong focus on operational excellence and mentoring fellow developers.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain core systems for financial products and operations.
• Implement automation solutions and reporting tools for financial workflows.

Skills

Java

Kotlin

Ruby on Rails

Operational Excellence

Proactive Communication

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Git

Agile Methodologies

Job description

Your career is an investment that grows over time!

Wealthsimple is on a mission to help everyone achieve financial freedom by reimagining what it means to manage your money. Using smart technology, we take financial services that are often confusing, opaque and expensive and make them transparent and low-cost for everyone. We’re the largest fintech company in Canada, with over 4 million users who trust us with more than $50 billion in assets.

Our teams ship often and make an impact with groundbreaking ideas. We're looking for talented people who keep it simple and value collaboration and humility as we continue to create inclusive and high-performing teams where people can be inspired to do their best work.

ABOUT THE TEAM(s)

We are looking for Senior Backend Developers with proven track records of successfully shipping complex projects across different environments and teams. Ideal candidates will have experience taking ownership of end-to-end development cycles, from initial design through to deployment and maintenance in a high-impact setting. You should be comfortable navigating challenges, adapting to changing requirements, and delivering scalable solutions. If you’ve successfully worked through multiple cycles and contributed to the growth of diverse systems, we want to hear from you.

We are looking for multiple backend software developers to help build and maintain the core systems that power our financial products and operations. As part of our backend engineering team, you will work on a range of critical processes, from supporting investment products and self-directed trading to automating post-trade operations and managing complex financial workflows.

Our backend systems are responsible for a variety of essential functions, including trade processing, settlements, reconciliations, and confirmations. You will also help implement reporting tools and automation solutions that support brokerages, partners, and internal teams. These systems are designed to ensure smooth, efficient, and scalable financial operations, all while focusing on reliability and performance. We are seeking developers with expertise in Ruby on Rails and Java to contribute to these backend processes, driving the automation and efficiency that power everything from investment products to post-trade management.

Skills we’re looking for:

• Proven experience as a Backend Software Developer (we use Java/Kotlin/Ruby on Rails on this team).
• Deep care and focus on operational excellence.
• An inquisitive mindset: you have the desire to learn new skills, the ability to ask questions, and remain open to new ideas and perspectives.
• Proactive communication skills and a willingness to work directly with designers, product managers, and other collaborators to focus on quality, testing, system design and building iteratively.
• Experience in and a desire to mentor fellow developers through pairing, code review, and in-the-moment feedback.

Within 3 months, you'll:

• Learn about the foundations of Wealthsimple, and our current goals for the future that you will start to shape.
• Have an assigned buddy within your team who will assist you in getting up-to-speed with our architecture and current projects.
• 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:

• 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 timelines.
• 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.

Please submit your application before 4 pm EST Dec 20th, 2024.

Successful candidates will be contacted after on or after the week of December 30th.

Why Wealthsimple?

Competitive salary with top-tier health benefits and life insurance

Retirement savings matching plan using Wealthsimple Work

20 vacation days per year and unlimited sick and mental health days

Up to $1,500 per year towards wellness and professional development budgets respectively

90 days away program: Employees can work internationally in eligible countries for up to 90 days per calendar year

A wide variety of peer and company-led Employee Resource Groups (ie. Rainbow, Women of Wealthsimple, Black @ WS)

Company-wide wellness days off scheduled throughout the year

We’re a remote-first team, with over 1,000 employees coast to coast in North America. 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.

DEI Statement

At Wealthsimple, we are building products for a diverse world and we need a diverse team to do that successfully. We strongly encourage applications from everyone regardless of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status.

Accessibility Statement

Wealthsimple provides an accessible candidate experience. If you need any accommodations or adjustments throughout the interview process and beyond, please let us know, and we will work with you to provide the necessary support and make reasonable accommodations to facilitate your participation. We are continuously working to improve our accessibility practices and welcome any feedback or suggestions on how we can better accommodate candidates with accessibility needs.