Senior Software Developer, Delivery Platform

Wealthsimple; Remote; CAD 151,000 - 189,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading fintech company in Canada is seeking a Senior Developer to enhance their CI/CD infrastructure and deployment systems. This role focuses on orchestrating deployments with Kubernetes, improving reliability, and mentoring engineers. Candidates should have 7+ years in software development and strong expertise in CI/CD workflows. The position offers competitive compensation, top-tier health benefits, and a remote-first work environment.

Benefits

Top-tier health benefits

20 vacation days + 4 wellness days

90 days away program

Employee Resources Groups

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in team-based software development, focusing on platform engineering.
• Deep expertise in modern deployment and orchestration.
• Experience designing and building deployment pipelines.
• Knowledge of reliability engineering and observability tools.
• Comfortable writing tooling, automation, and infrastructure code.

Responsibilities

• Enhance canary deployment strategies and build self-service deployment tools.
• Improve CI workflows for speed and reliability.
• Design automated quality checks for production safety.
• Create deployment monitoring dashboards using Datadog.
• Implement frameworks for system resilience and continuous load testing.
• Mentor mid-level engineers and increase deployment velocity.

Skills

Kubernetes

GitOps workflows

CI/CD experience

Reliability engineering

Technical versatility in TypeScript, Ruby, Python, Kotlin

Load testing tools like k6

Infrastructure as Code

Strong collaboration skills

Job description

Build something people love

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 and expensive and make them transparent and low-cost for everyone. We’re the largest fintech company in Canada, with 3+ million users who trust us with more than $100 billion in assets. And we’re just getting started.

We’re looking for someone who thinks big, sweats the small stuff and keeps things simple. You’ll join a high-bar, fast-paced team where people are trusted to own their work, communicate openly, and ship things that improve our clients’ lives. Collaboration, humility, and an obsession over quality are how we get stuff done.

The Delivery Platform team owns the complete deployment lifecycle at Wealthsimple. From the moment code is committed to when it's running reliably in production. We build and maintain the CI/CD infrastructure, deployment systems, and observability tools that enable hundreds of engineers to ship secure, high-quality software to millions of users with confidence and speed.

Our platform encompasses GitHub Actions self-hosted runners for continuous integration, ArgoCD and Argo Rollouts for progressive delivery with canaries and automated rollbacks, package publishing and artifact promotion, deployment visibility through Datadog and Backstage, and continuous load testing with k6. We treat reliability as our north star and deployment velocity as our measure of success.

As a Senior Developer on our team, you won't just be maintaining pipelines; you'll be architecting the systems that make shipping code at Wealthsimple fast, safe, and transparent. You will support a diverse engineering organization that uses Ruby, Python, Kotlin, and TypeScript to build the future of finance. Your work will directly empower hundreds of developers to deploy with confidence many times per day.

In this role you'll have the opportunity to:

• Evolve progressive delivery with Argo Rollouts and GitOps. Enhance our canary deployment strategies, improve automated health checks and rollback triggers, and build self-service deployment tools that give engineering teams the power to ship safely and independently. You'll work directly with Kubernetes, ArgoCD, and Argo Rollouts to make deployments invisible when they work and obvious when they don't.
• Optimize CI/CD infrastructure at scale. Improve our CI workflows to optimize for speed and reliability, optimize build times across hundreds of services, enhance artifact management and package publishing workflows, and build tools that make continuous integration faster and more dependable.
• Build deployment gates and guardrails that prevent production incidents. Design and implement automated quality checks including end-to-end testing, load testing, and progressive delivery validations that catch issues before they reach production. You'll be responsible for ensuring every deployment is safe and reversible.
• Build world-class deployment observability and visibility. Create comprehensive deployment monitoring, dashboards, and alerting through Datadog and custom tooling. Integrate deployment metrics into Backstage to give every engineer real-time insights into their service's deployment health, success rates, and performance characteristics.
• Drive Wealthsimple's 2026 reliability mission. Reliability is our top priority this year, and you'll be at the center of building systems that make it a reality. Implement chaos testing frameworks to validate system resilience, build automated rollback mechanisms, and create deployment confidence metrics that teams can trust.
• Pioneer continuous, automated load testing. Design and build infrastructure that continuously validates performance characteristics of services before and during deployments. Implement k6-based testing frameworks, automated performance regression detection, and integration with deployment gates to catch performance issues early.
• Champion engineering excellence and mentorship. Partner with teams across Wealthsimple to understand their deployment pain points and build solutions that increase their velocity. Share your expertise through documentation, training sessions, and code reviews. Mentor mid-level engineers on the team and across the organization.

What you'll bring:

• 7+ years of experience in team-based software development, with strong focus on platform engineering, DevOps, CI/CD, or SRE.
• Deep expertise in modern deployment and orchestration, including Kubernetes, GitOps workflows (ArgoCD or similar), progressive delivery, and strategies such as canary and blue-green deployments with automated rollbacks.
• Strong CI/CD experience: designed, built, and operated deployment pipelines using Buildkite, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or similar; experience optimizing build times, managing artifacts, and ensuring pipeline reliability at scale.
• Reliability engineering and observability expertise, including building observable systems with Datadog, Prometheus, or similar tools; solid understanding of SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.
• Technical versatility across multiple languages, with experience in TypeScript, Ruby, Python, Kotlin, or similar; comfortable writing tooling, automation, and infrastructure code.
• Load testing and performance validation experience, using tools such as k6, JMeter, or Gatling, and interpreting results to inform deployment decisions.
• Infrastructure as Code and cloud experience, including AWS, Terraform, or comparable platforms and tools; ability to build reproducible, version-controlled, scalable infrastructure.
• Product mindset for internal platforms, treating deployment infrastructure as a product and internal developers as customers.
• Strong collaboration and mentorship skills, with experience coaching engineers and communicating technical concepts across teams.
• Data-driven approach, using metrics to establish baselines, measure impact, and guide technical decisions.

Compensation & Equity

🤑 Base salary range: For this role, candidates located in Canada can expect a base salary range of CAD $151,200 - $189,000. Actual compensation is determined based on skills, experience, and role level. Exceptional candidates may be considered above the top of the range, and pay can increase quickly for those who make a big impact in the role.

🚀 Total compensation: In addition to base salary, this role includes equity compensation. We use clear job levels and market-based salary bands to ensure compensation is fair and consistent across the company.

Why Wealthsimple?

🌸 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)

🌎 We’re a remote first team with over 1,500 employees across North America – and one of the best things about working here is the people. You’ll be collaborating with incredibly talented, curious, and driven teammates who care deeply about doing great work.

Be a part of our Canadian success story and help shape the financial future of millions.

Read our Culture Manual and learn more about how we work.

Technology & Innovation at Wealthsimple

We believe the future belongs to those who innovate boldly. At Wealthsimple, every team member is expected to lean into new technologies, including AI, and tooling to rethink how we work, solve problems faster, and create even greater value. We're looking for people who are not just comfortable with change but energized by it. Our commitment is to build a company that evolves at the pace of the world around us, and we want you to help lead that future.

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.

At Wealthsimple, we want interviews to feel like genuine conversations. To support this, we use AI transcription during recruiter interviews. This allows recruiters to be fully engaged, ask thoughtful follow-up questions, and ensure your experiences are captured accurately. You’ll always have the choice to opt in or out before we begin.