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Senior Software Developer, Database Solutions

We're looking for talented people who want to move fast, ship often, and have a huge impact.

Wealthsimple

Employee count: 201-500

Canada only
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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 4 million users who trust us with more than $80 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.
Data-Stores team is a part of the Platform Engineering team in Wealthsimple with the mandate of strengthening our data infrastructure through stewardship of all our storage systems, including: Oracle EBS, Aurora Postgres RDS, DynamoDB and Redis. The team set and standardize best practices, administer and build tools to improve the reliability, scalability and usability of these systems.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

  • Partner with stakeholders across different product domains, infrastructure, and leadership, driving data related technical problems at scale.
  • Design and implement maintenance automations for different data stores, this includes automations for upgrades, backups, migrations … etc.
  • Design, Administer, Maintain, monitor and conduct performance tuning efforts for data systems such as AWS Aurora Postgres, Redis/Elasticache, DynamoDB, … etc.
  • Design and implement backup and recovery plans.
  • Ensure Data stores scalability and reliability through proactive analysis and thorough capacity planning.
  • Work in partnership with stakeholders to understand client integration requirements and business processes with our data stores.
  • Ensure the reliability, security, and performance of integration solutions through rigorous testing and quality assurance.
  • Create and maintain detailed technical documentation, including technical specifications, code documentation, and progress reports.
  • Work with a large amount of autonomy to set the technical direction for scalable projects.

What you bring:

  • 3+ years experience as a database solution architect. This may include, but is not limited to, prior roles in solutions architecture, software engineering, or software development.
  • Experience with AWS Aurora Postgres, Redis, Enterprise Redis, AWS Elasticache and NoSQL databases like DynamoDB.
  • Proficiency in Python, data transformation and data migration.
  • Experience with Terraform and K8s.
  • An ability to understand how to organize and consolidate customers’ data in various formats and from various source applications.
  • Experience with database performance tuning and optimization.
  • Hands-on knowledge of: AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform.
  • Working knowledge of Postgres databases administration.
  • Ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
  • Experience with design and implementation of high performance systems with reliable monitoring and logging.

Why Wealthsimple?

🤑 Competitive salary with top-tier health benefits and life insurance
📈 Retirement savings matching plan using Wealthsimple for Business
🌴 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.

Technology & Innovation at Wealthsimple

We believe the future belongs to those who innovate boldly. At Wealthsimple, every team member is expected to lean into new technologies, including AI, and tooling to rethink how we work, solve problems faster, and create even greater value. We're looking for people who are not just comfortable with change but energized by it. Our commitment is to build a company that evolves at the pace of the world around us, and we want you to help lead that future.

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.

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About Wealthsimple

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We're looking for talented people who want to move fast, ship often, and have a huge impact.

How we work

We believe that access to financial freedom is a fundamental human right. Our mission is to make sure everyone has the opportunity to exercise that right by making simple, sophisticated, and affordable financial products.

Backed by some of the biggest names in finance and tech, we're growing quickly and globally. We work collaboratively to build the best possible experience for our clients. You won't find meeting-packed days or red tape, and we don't over-engineer our product or processes. Everyone is a maker, and we take things from start to finish quickly.

We're committed to building an actively inclusive environment, where everyone can be themselves and know their voices will be heard. And we don't accept the status quo. If you want to fix or improve something — go for it! We go above and beyond and encourage each other to do the best work of our lives.

Our values

Wealthsimple believes access to financial freedom is a human right. Here's how we plan to bring it to everyone. Read our Culture Manual.

Benefits at Wealthsimple

If you read our Culture Manual, you know that we believe in taking care of each other. Here are some of the ways we do that:

  • Retirement savings matching plan

  • Top-tier health benefits & life insurance

  • Professional development budget

  • Fitness credit

  • Parental leave (6 months topped up to 100%)

  • Access to personal finance learning & advice

  • Daily catered lunches from local restaurants

  • Employee resource groups

  • Team trips, outings, and hackathons

Employee benefits

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Generous vacation

20 vacation days per year

Paid parental leave

6 months topped up to 100% of salary

Equity benefits

Company equity for full-time employees

Company retreats

Annual company retreat so you can meet everyone in person.

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