Software Development Manager - Streaming Platform

October 25

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Wealthsimple

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

501 - 1000

💰 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. • About the Platform Engineering Team: We aim to design, build and provide scalable, secure, and stable infrastructure, while also enabling our engineers to quickly and easily deploy new code. The Wealthsimple ecosystem is primarily Ruby on Rails and JavaScript micro services, with state backed by Aurora (PostgreSQL) and Redis. The infrastructure-specific stack you will work on is powered by AWS, built by Ansible, deployed with Terraform, run on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, powered by Docker and Consul and finally, orchestrated by Nomad and “coming soon” Kubernetes. • 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 being able to make fraud decisions in real-time, and to keep client state and data consistent across our microservices. Through the adoption of these technologies and  solutions, the Streaming Platform team will increase velocity and reduce the toil and cost of development, providing a huge impact across the business. • About the Role: As the first Software Development Manager on the Streaming Platform team, you are going to shape the Streaming Platform team. By partnering with Recruitment and Engineering Leaders, you will hire and develop a small and inclusive team, responsible for their learning, development and growth. By enabling this team to timely release our data projects, you will evolve the service of the Platform team, creating a world-class infrastructure for our teams to build and deploy at scale.

Requirements

• Strong knowledge of building, maintaining and scaling real-time data ingestion and processing frameworks such as Kafka, Flink and Temporal • A passion and experience of growing, leading and developing software engineering teams • 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