Senior Software Developer - Product (Full Stack & Front-end)

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 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.
Our product engineering teams are looking for both Full Stack and Front-end Software Developers.

Our Tech Stack:

• Front end UI libraries written in React or React Native
• We are currently evolving our architecture to adopt event-driven design with Kafka as well as using GraphQL APIs to represent our data model
• We host our services on Amazon Web Services and use things like RDS, Aurora, SQS, SNS, S3, Kafka, etc.
• We follow the latest best practices and have great tools for profiling, logging, tracing, tracking and experimenting
• We have support from frontend platform, infrastructure, security and developer tools teams with a mission to help us work smarter and more efficiently
• We have a Redshift based data warehouse that integrates data from our back-end that allows you build tight feedback loops between what you ship and how it impacts your feature, your product and the overall company
• Exposure to microservice architecture with over 100+ services -- these services are a mixture of Ruby on Rails, Java/Kotlin, NodeJS

Skills we're looking for:

• Proven experience as a Full Stack OR Front-end Software Developer
• Experience with our key technologies - Front-end: React and TypeScript
• Experience with our key technologies - Full Stack: React, TypeScript, Ruby on Rails
• Deep care and focus on operational excellence
• An inquisitive mindset: you have the desire to learn new skills, the ability to ask questions, and remain open to new ideas and perspectives
• Proactive communication skills and a willingness to work directly with designers, product managers, and other collaborators to focus on quality, testing, system design and building iteratively
• Experience in and a desire to mentor fellow developers through pairing, code review, and in-the-moment feedback
• Experience with GraphQL (Apollo) and with optimizing performance is a nice to have!

Within 1 month, you'll:

• Learn about the foundations of Wealthsimple, and our current goals for the future that you will start to shape
• Meet other new Wealthsimplers in your onboarding group and key people from each department, to start to build relationships across the company
• Gather an understanding of our technology by pair-programming with your teammates and attending engineering onboarding sessions designed and presented by your peers
• Have an assigned buddy within your team that will assist you in getting up-to-speed with our architecture and current projects

Within 3 months, you'll:

• Learn Wealthsimple’s technical stack and apply our development patterns and best practices through your work
• Buddy up for your first on-call rotation to help identify and resolve production issues and bugs clients have experienced
• Contribute and support work in a new or existing product and share your work with the team
• Learn how to query our data to measure the impact of your work
• Support over a million clients on their financial journey by shipping your first project or feature in a secure, and scalable way 🚀

Within 6 months, you'll:

• Reliably ship new features to our clients, following our best practices such as shipping daily, writing automated tests and monitoring
• Contribute to or lead the technical design of a project, while understanding how it will shape our future architecture
• Collaborate with other developers on the team while mentoring and providing continuous feedback via code reviews
• Develop a big picture perspective and understand how our tools and frameworks come together. You’ll feel comfortable contributing to various codebases

Within 12 months, you'll:

• Lead your first project: planning, scoping and regularly communicating progress to stakeholders to ensure the quality and timeliness
• Have provided leverage to our engineering teams by shipping new best practices and tools for all to benefit from
• Participate in our hiring process and shape the growth of the Engineering