Job Specifications
Your career is an investment that grows over time!
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 3+ million users who trust us with more than $100 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.
As we prepare for an exciting 2026, we're 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 pillar plays a critical role in helping us achieve our mission of building a more accessible, transparent, and human financial system.
We're 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 you're passionate about backend systems, product engineering, platform scalability, or everything in between, there's a place for you here.
In this role, you will have the opportunity to
Collaborate with our cross-functional 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 Java/Kotlin. The teams we are hiring for here are mostly using Ruby on Rails, and a few use Python
Our front-end application is a mix of React/Angular
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 enterprise-grade AI technologies
We follow best practices and have great tools for profiling, logging, tracing, tracking and experimenting
What You’ll 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 on-call duties and system maintenance
Effective at communicating with technical and non-technical 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, and/or 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?
Competitive salary with top-tier health benefits and life insurance
Retirement savings matching plan using Wealthsimple for Business
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.
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
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