Senior Software Developer - Streaming Platform

January 25

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Wealthsimple

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Wealthsimple is a financial technology company based in Canada that offers a range of investment and financial services. They provide managed investing options with custom portfolios tailored to individual goals, and offer self-directed investing to take control of trading stocks, ETFs, and cryptocurrencies commission-free. Wealthsimple also provides high-interest cash accounts, various retirement savings accounts, and a comprehensive set of tools for personal finance management. With over 3 million users, they emphasize low fees, transparency, and personalized financial advice.

wealth manager • financial advisor • investment manager • portfolio manager • investment adivsor

501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2014

💸 Finance

💳 Fintech

💰 Private Equity Round on 2021-05

📋 Description

• 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. • 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. • 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.

🎯 Requirements

• 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

🏖️ Benefits

• 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