Senior Software Developer, Streaming 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 $70 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 Streaming Platform Team:

The Streaming Platform team is part of the Platform Engineering team at Wealthsimple and is responsible for providing the platform, standards and tools to leverage streaming and adjacent technologies (Flink, Temporal, Kafka, Confluent) the Wealthsimple way: reliable, secure and scalable.

We are informed by our partners across product, engineering and data. Some of the exciting things the Streaming Platform team empowers include delivering accurate and reliable positions data to our clients, being able to make fraud decisions in real-time and keeping data consistent across our microservices. Through the adoption of these technologies and solutions, the Streaming Platform team will increase reliability, recoverability and reduce the toil and cost of development, providing a huge impact across the business.

About the Role:

As a Senior Software Developer on the Streaming Platform team, you will be joining and helping to shape a newly formed team with huge business and client impact. This takes shape with projects such as improving the recoverability of our Flink jobs and infrastructure, leading to extremely accurate financial metrics for our clients and their experience within the app. You will be empowered to build the platform that enables timely release of our data projects, that will not only evolve the service of our platform team, but create a world-class, performant and reliable infrastructure for our teams to build and deploy at scale.

Some of the team’s immediate projects include: strengthening reliability and reducing time to recover for Flink jobs, enabling real time metrics for Kafka and migrating our Temporal cluster to Kubernetes.

• Improve the reliability and recoverability of our Flink jobs and Kafka infrastructure, allowing other teams to provide fast and accurate financial metrics to our clients
• Help the team to build tools that deliver a great developer experience, such as supporting tooling for our company transition to Kubernetes 
• Ensure the scalability and reliability of the platform, infrastructure and tools that support our teams
• Partner deeply with our Book of Record teams, infrastructure platform and other cross-functional teams to understand their needs to deliver the next phase of our streaming infrastructure
• Keep on top of industry best practices and standards that benefit our engineering organization, and hold teams accountable to these standards
• Help shape the culture of the Streaming Platform team and technology; coach and mentor our teams on the importance and impact of our core technologies: Flink, Kafka and Temporal
• Ability to work across downstream services leveraging streaming technologies (we have a microservice architecture primarily in Ruby on Rails and Java/Kotlin)

• Strong knowledge of building, maintaining and scaling real-time data ingestion and processing frameworks such as Flink, Kafka and Temporal
• Previous end-to-end experience designing, building and supporting cloud infrastructure on AWS and Kubernetes, database infrastructure or distributed systems
• Strong knowledge in both software and infrastructure development best practices, and how to leverage those to improve the developer experience
• An ability to adapt and ship meaningful work in a fast-paced environment
• 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

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

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.