Proven experience in building medium to large features for distributed systems., Proficiency in code reviews, troubleshooting, and performance optimization., Solid understanding of relational databases, design patterns, and backend/frontend frameworks., Experience with technologies like React, Ruby on Rails, Java, Kotlin, or Python..
Key responsibilities:
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver web and mobile experiences.
Ship impactful projects and solve complex technical problems using cutting-edge technology.
Build, test, deploy, and monitor high-quality software across the tech stack.
Contribute to team documentation and operational excellence.
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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 lowcost for everyone. Weβre the largest fintech company in Canada, with over 4 million users who trust us with more than $70 billion in assets.
Our teams ship often and make an impact with groundbreaking ideas. Were looking for talented people who keep it simple and value collaboration and humility as we continue to create inclusive and highperforming teams where people can be inspired to do their best work.
As we prepare for an exciting 2026, were making bold investments across our Engineering organization, with a focus on growing both new and existing teams within our core pillars: Banking, Investing, and the Financial Operating System (FOS). Each of these pillars plays a critical role in helping us achieve our mission of building a more accessible, transparent, and human financial system.
Were looking for talented developers who are excited by complex technical challenges, motivated by impact, and eager to shape the future of financial services in Canada. Whether youre passionate about backend systems, product engineering, platform scalability, or everything in between, theres a place for you here.
In this role, you will have the opportunity to
Collaborate with our crossfunctional teams of talented software developers, data scientists, product managers, and designers to give Wealthsimple clients delightful web and mobile experiences
Ship impactful projects and solve interesting problems on a regular basis leveraging cutting edge technology
Work across the entire techstack to iteratively build, test, deploy and monitor high quality software
Our technologies
Service oriented architecture with over 100+ services
Roughly half of these services are Ruby on Rails, with the other half being JavaKotlin. The teams we are hiring for here are mostly using Ruby on Rails, and a few use Python.
Our frontend application is a mix of ReactAngular
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, and provide access to the latest enterprisegrade AI technologies
We follow best practices and have great tools for profiling, logging, tracing, tracking and experimenting
What youβll bring
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 oncall duties and system maintenance
Effective at communicating with technical and nontechnical stakeholders
The drive to help improve team documentation, champion operational excellence, and make meaningful improvements to the codebase
Experience working with React or React Native, Ruby on Rails, Java, Kotlin, andor Python
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
Why Wealthsimple?
π€ Competitive salary with toptier health benefits and life insurance
π Retirement savings matching plan using Wealthsimple for Business
π΄ 20 vacation days per year and unlimited sick and mental health days
π Up to $1,500 per year towards wellness and professional development budgets respectively
π« 90 days away program: Employees can work internationally in eligible countries for up to 90 days per calendar year
π A wide variety of peer and companyled Employee Resource Groups (ie. Rainbow, Women of Wealthsimple, Black @ WS)
π Companywide wellness days off scheduled throughout the year
Weβre a remotefirst 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 β join us!