Senior Backend Software Developer - Order Execution

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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 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 Order Execution team

Buying or selling a stock is a flagship part of the Wealthsimple product – and is a key opportunity to raise the bar on our client experience. Within this, the Order Execution team is responsible for delivering a fast and streamlined trading experience that supports our clients. We do this by:

- Ensuring orders are sent to the market accurately, on time, and reliably. 

- Serving as the single source of truth for real-time FX rates, which is crucial for clients who purchase US securities or convert cash between currencies.

- Building APIs that communicate key pieces of information to front-end systems.

As our products become more sophisticated and our client base grows, we strive to ensure our order execution systems scale and adapt appropriately.

About the role:

As a Backend Engineer on the Order Execution team, you’ll own projects through to completion, partnering deeply with a cross-functional team to create a highly performant, business critical client experience. You’ll work with a small team which has a huge focus on learning and development, shared knowledge and collaboration. As part of your role, you’ll learn the ins and outs of trading, and be a huge part in providing a reliable service during market opening, which is 9:30AM EST every weekday. We’re reimagining the way trading is done in Canada, and joining the Order Execution team and delivering fault-tolerant code continues us living that mission! 

• Lead projects which include planning, scoping and regularly communicating progress to stakeholders to ensure the quality and timelines.
• Optimize our code, delivering highly performant, efficient systems and databases that support our clients.
• Partner closely with our product and design teams, impacting our design and UX through cross-functional collaboration.
• Ship new features to our clients efficiently and reliably, following our best practices and values such as Shipping Daily, Keeping It Simple and being a Maker Owner.
• Improve the development process for our engineering teams by keeping on top of industry trends and implementing new tools and best practices.
• Participate in our hiring process and shape the growth and culture of the Engineering team.

• Strong programming skills in Java/Kotlin, and proven experience using these languages to deliver robust and well-designed APIs for web and mobile applications
• Deep experience with relational databases, including performance tuning
• A deep understanding and coding execution on complex projects at scale 
• A collaborative and open approach to communication: you are experienced in delivering clear, concise and solution-focused messages, that are easily understood by a cross-discipline team
• A passion for mentorship: you love empowering other developers while learning new skills 

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.