Wealthsimple

Wealthsimple

Staff Software Developer, Production Engineering

Remote (Canada) · Staff+

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 32 days ago
Distributed SystemsKubernetesHelmSite Reliability EngineeringAccessibilityLoad TestingLeadershipCommunicationMentoringPublic Speaking

About the role

  • This is a new role - one that doesn't yet exist at Wealthsimple - and it's a meaningful one.
  • As a Staff Software Developer on Production Engineering, you'll bring senior technical leadership to the work of making Wealthsimple more reliable at scale.
  • This isn't a role where you sit in one corner of the codebase.

Responsibilities

  • Build tooling that reduces time to mitigation when incidents occur, including contributing to our in-house product on AI-assisted incident response
  • Own the investigation and follow-through on load test findings - translating results into concrete reliability improvements across critical flows
  • Identify recurring failure patterns and design platform-level fixes that prevent them from showing up again in a different service
  • Demonstrated track record of improving reliability at scale - reducing incidents, building guardrails, or driving operational standards across multiple teams

Requirements

  • you know how to prioritise when everything feels urgent

Skills

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience, with significant time in platform, infrastructure, or SRE work
  • Strong proficiency in backend systems and distributed architecture; you can diagnose complex failure modes across a service mesh
  • Experience with load testing and capacity planning, and the ability to translate findings into concrete engineering improvements
  • Familiarity with Kubernetes, Helm, Argo and modern deployment tooling

Compensation

  • 🌴 20 vacation days, 4 wellness days, and unlimited sick and mental health days per year

Company info

  • We build the products and infrastructure that millions of Canadians trust with their financial lives.
  • Data & Engineering at Wealthsimple spans everything from the client-facing apps to the systems running underneath them - and we hold ourselves to a high bar on both.
  • It's a role where you shape how engineering gets done across the company.

This listing is sourced directly from Wealthsimple's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.