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Wealthsimple · 1 month ago

Senior Software Developer, Build Platform

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

7+ years exp

Wealthsimple is on a mission to help everyone achieve financial freedom by reimagining financial services. The Senior Software Developer on the Build Platform team will enhance developer productivity and shape the developer experience by modernizing tools, improving environments, and implementing best practices.

FinanceFinancial ServicesFinTechImpact InvestingPersonal FinanceWealth Management

Responsibilities

Pioneer new ways to improve developer productivity by leveraging emerging technologies like AI to optimize workflows, improve test coverage and reduce friction in the development lifecycle

Shape the next generation of our development environments. A key focus will be on rolling out and enhancing containerized development environments across hundreds of services to drastically reduce setup time, eliminate "works on my machine" issues, and create a consistent, powerful local development experience for all engineers

Modernize core internal libraries and tooling. This includes improving our command-line interface to automate developer machine setup, sunsetting legacy tools in favor of safer, auditable alternatives, and evolving the shared libraries that underpin our microservices architecture

Define and measure operational excellence at scale. You'll help build automated scorecards that give every team clear, actionable insights into the health of their services, covering everything from dependency management to monitoring and scalability

Elevate our testing infrastructure. You'll get to evolve how our teams test complex systems, such as by building robust backend mocking solutions to increase end-to-end test stability and by enabling isolated testing of asynchronous, event-driven workflows in ephemeral environments

Champion engineering best practices by partnering with teams across Wealthsimple to deliver platform improvements that increase their velocity and confidence

Qualification

RubyPythonTypeScriptKotlinInternal librariesContainerized environmentsAutomated scorecardsTesting infrastructureCuriosityData-informed decision-makingMentorshipCollaboration

Required

7+ years of experience in software development as part of a team, preferably a platform-oriented team

7+ years experience with any of the following: Ruby, Python, Typescript, Kotlin

Experience designing, building, and maintaining internal libraries, frameworks, or tooling used by other engineering teams

A forward-thinking mindset and a passion for applying modern technology. You're naturally curious about the latest industry trends and are always exploring how they can be used to create a best-in-class development experience

Curiosity and a deep interest in a fast, reliable, streamlined developer experience. You're driven to understand your users, eliminate complexity, and build elegant solutions to their pain points

A collaborative spirit and a passion for mentorship. You believe in making your colleagues successful and enjoy coaching other developers

A data-informed approach to decision-making. You are comfortable using metrics to identify opportunities and measure the impact of your work