Senior Software Developer - Backend Platform

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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 Backend Platform team

The Backend Platform team is responsible for creating a seamless developer experience by maintaining critical tools, standards, and best practices that enable fast, reliable, and secure software delivery. This includes managing our CI/CD pipeline, building shared libraries, enforcing quality controls, and enhancing our internal developer portal. As part of this team, you’ll contribute to boosting developer productivity and ensuring frictionless development and deployment across the entire engineering organization.

We are seeking developers who thrive in the fast feedback loop of improving every system around them, listening to the experiences of other developers, and eliminating unneeded complexity. Our platform team is very experienced, and you’ll be supported and have opportunities to grow while building more great tools that enable our engineering org to scale even further! 2025 is looking like an exciting growth year for Wealthsimple, and this team helps build the foundational backend tooling that empowers our Developers to ship meaningful, impactful work that is helping Canadians reach financial freedom!

About the role

As a Senior Backend Engineer on the Backend Platform team, you will be a part of driving our mission to create a delightful developer experience, shipping tools and frameworks that empower teams to ship features quickly, safely and reliably. You will be at the heart of implementing the large-scale projects that continue to drive a seamless developer and user experience, such as the V2 of our CI pipeline or the development of our centralized Internal Developer Platform. This team celebrates transparency, partnerships and execution, and you will provide mentorship and diverse perspectives to multiple teams.

• Lead key Backend Platform projects which include planning, scoping and regularly communicating progress to stakeholders to ensure quality and timelines
• Develop and continuously improve code, delivering highly performant, efficient systems and tooling that support your clients, our developers
• Coach and mentor both the teams that build the backend platform and users of the platform across a variety of different tech stacks such as Ruby, Typescript , Java/Kotlin and Python
• Partner closely with our Infrastructure and InfraSec teams, helping to build the tooling for a company-wide Kubernetes migration
• Collaborate with Product to ensure we’re delivering backend tooling that can help us ship products faster with an emphasis on our clients and best-in-class developer experience 
• 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 of the Engineering team
• Join our on-call rotation to support and maintain our critical systems, demonstrating your growing expertise and commitment to our platform's reliability.

• Strong programming skills in Ruby, TypeScript, Java/Kotlin, or Python, and proven experience using these languages to deliver scalable backend tooling or frameworks
• Strong experience with microservices architecture and CI/CD pipelines, with our tech stack using Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Docker, Github Actions, Datadog and Sentry among  others
• Experience with internal developer portals and tools, and a passion for creating fast, reliable, and streamlined developer experiences
• Proven ability to establish, implement and enforce backend development standards and best practices, leaning into the philosophy of “Convention over Configuration”
• 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 across various teams 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.