Senior Front End Software Developer (Trading)

Wealthsimple Inc.; Canada; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Retirement savings matching plan

Company equity

Premium Client perks

Paid parental leave

20 vacation days

Top-tier health benefits

Life & disability insurance

Mental health days

Professional development

Wellness and home office expenses

Employee resource groups

Social impact hours

Job summary

Wealthsimple Inc. in Canada is seeking a Senior Front End Engineer to own complex, end-to-end trading interfaces used by millions of Canadians. You’ll shape order entry, execution, and real-time market data experiences with React and TypeScript, delivering reliable, high-performance surfaces.

You’ll collaborate with product and design, mentor peers, and push the frontier of AI-assisted workflows to ship faster while maintaining rigor and quality in a fast-paced financial environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with a track record of shipping production-grade systems.
• Strong frontend fundamentals with React and TypeScript; experience with performance and reliability.
• Experience with AI-first development workflows and evaluating model outputs for safety and correctness.
• Technical leadership and strong communication; ability to mentor teammates and raise the bar.
• Product judgment and maker-owner mindset; willingness to own a domain long-term.
• Experience in fast-moving environments with broad ownership and meaningful influence.
• Passion for trading/investing; active investor or trader is a plus.
• Experience building trading, brokerage, or real-time financial surfaces.

Responsibilities

• Own complex, end-to-end frontend projects across the trading experience.
• Build and improve client-facing surfaces powering order flow and trading products.
• Collaborate with product and design to clarify goals and surface trade-offs.
• Ensure reliability, performance, and observability in trading journeys.
• Raise the technical bar through design reviews, code reviews, and documentation.
• Mentor teammates and lead by example; influence product decisions.

Skills

React

TypeScript

Front end architecture

5+ years experience

AI workflows

Technical leadership

Product collaboration

Performance optimization

Real-time surfaces

Tools

React Native

GraphQL

Ruby on Rails

Kotlin

Java

Swift / iOS

Android

Job description

• As a Senior Front End Engineer on our trading and investing teams, you’ll own meaningful slices of the experiences at the heart of Canada’s first zero-commission brokerage - the surfaces over 4 million Canadians rely on, and invest with
• This is a pipeline role across several frontend-focused teams, including Order Execution and Options Trading, and we’ll match you to the team where your experience and interests fit best
• These are high-visibility, high-stakes surfaces: the order flow across equities, options, and crypto, and the trading experiences active clients use every day
• A slow screen or a mishandled order is felt immediately by our clients, so the bar for reliability, performance, and craft is high
• You’ll bring strong technical judgment, a bias toward action, and a deep sense of ownership, working closely with product managers, designers, and engineers to turn complex, high-stakes problems into simple, reliable trading experiences
• Own complex, end-to-end frontend projects across the trading experience - from technical design through implementation, launch, and iteration
• Build and improve the client-facing surfaces that power our order flow and trading products, with a focus on reliability, performance, and correctness
• Work on high-stakes client journeys: order entry and execution, options trading, real-time market data, and portfolio experiences across equities, options, and crypto
• Make thoughtful architectural decisions and help the team balance speed, quality, and scale — influence what we build, how we build it, and where we go next
• Partner closely with Product and Design to clarify goals, surface trade-offs, and deliver outcomes, not just features
• Build with the reliability and observability standards that trading journeys demand — clients notice the moment something is slow or wrong
• Leverage AI-centric workflows to ship faster and safer — we invest heavily in AI tooling and expect senior engineers to push the frontier of how we use these tools
• Raise the technical bar through design reviews, code reviews, documentation, pairing, and mentorship

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
• Gender Affiliation benefits
• Up to $5,000 per year for mental health supports
• Employee resource plan including services like RMT, psychology, and physiotherapy
• 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

Strong frontend fundamentals with React and TypeScript, and ideally React Native — you build performant, reliable client experiences and understand how they behave under real-world conditionsAn AI-first development workflow that doesn’t compromise on rigour — you’ve moved beyond AI as autocomplete into genuinely agentic workflows, and bring the judgment to know when the model is wrong, where the risks are, and what verification a change needs before it touches productionTechnical leadership and strong communication — you raise the bar through your code, reviews, and design docs, navigate ambiguity, and bring others along with a collaborative, low-ego approach5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a track record of shipping production-grade systems that real users depend onProduct judgment and a maker-owner mindset — you care about the client problem, simplify complexity, and want to own and grow a domain over time, not just ship the next ticketNative mobile experience (Swift/iOS or Kotlin/Android) is a strong plus, whether you’ve built native apps directly or directed and reviewed native workGraphQL and performance optimization experienceExperience building trading, brokerage, or other real-time, high-reliability financial surfacesRuby on Rails, Kotlin, or Java experience — helpful for working across the stack, but not a requirement; depth and willingness to ramp matter moreExperience in a fast-moving environment where engineers have broad ownership and meaningful influence over product decisionsPassionate about trading and investing, perhaps even an active investor or trader yourself, and you use that perspective to build experiences that feel intuitive to people managing their own money