Senior Software Developer, Crypto

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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 3 million users who trust us with more than $40 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 team:

Our vision is to enable all Canadians to participate in and benefit from the Crypto ecosystem no matter who they are. We aspire to build a simple, safe and trusted platform that emphasises education and provides access to all the benefits and opportunities that crypto has to offer. We have ambitious plans for Wealthsimple Crypto, that go much beyond our current trading platform and we are looking for ambitious individuals that can help us shape and execute that vision.

About you:

• You have proven experience in software development
• You have experience with some of our key technologies: Ruby on Rails, Postgres, Redis, GraphQL, API Integrations.
• You are flexible and creative, you love to come up with novel ways to solve problems and work through constraints.
• You have a focus on quality, testing, system design and building iteratively.
• You have great communication skills and the ability to work in a collaborative and fast-paced environment.
• You have a “Can Do” attitude and a desire to learn new skills.




Nice to have:

• Previous experience working with crypto or financial companies.
• Experience working with Kafka

What you will do:

• Leading projects - Planning, scoping, executing, and working with your product partner and manager to communicate progress to stakeholders.
• Thinking about the future - Help us design our newest features, shape our client experiences, and build a sustainable and performant architecture.
• Building with quality - Think about the big picture! Help us improve our client experience, error rates, application performance, and developer velocity through a focus on iterative improvement. 
• Helping set best practices - Help us figure out how to build better, more reliable software!
• Mentoring others - Support and grow other developers within your team and get support on your own career journey!

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.