Senior Software Developer – Platform Engineering

Wealthsimple

Join Wealthsimple as a Senior Software Developer to build systems that enhance developer productivity. Work remotely to design, build, and improve production-grade distributed systems.

Posted 6/15/2026full-timeRemote • 🇨🇦 CanadaSenior💰 CA$151,200 - CA$189,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AirflowAWSCloudDistributed SystemsGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetes

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design and build production-grade distributed systems
Own technical architecture in your domain (Platform or Data)
Improve reliability, scalability, and performance of core systems
Work closely with internal users (engineers or data practitioners)
Participate in operational ownership (on-call where applicable)
Lead projects end-to-end from design to production

Requirements

What you’ll need

7+ years building production systems
Strong experience in distributed systems or data-intensive systems
Experience owning system design decisions
Operational experience (production support, incidents, debugging)
Experience building systems used by other engineers or data teams
Cloud infrastructure experience (AWS/GCP/Kubernetes) - Nice to Have
CI/CD or developer tooling experience (Platform track) - Nice to Have
dbt, Airflow, Snowflake, or similar tools (Data track) - Nice to Have
Observability, reliability engineering, or data quality systems - Nice to Have
Experience working across both domains (not required) - Nice to Have

Benefits

Comp & perks

Top-tier health benefits and life insurance
Long-term group savings with employer match, through Wealthsimple for Business
20 vacation days, 4 wellness days, and unlimited sick and mental health days per year
90 days away: work outside Canada for up to 90 days per year
Employee resource groups, including Rainbow (2SLGBTQ), Women of WS, and Black at WS

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Hard Skills & Tools

distributed systemsdata-intensive systemssystem designproduction supportincident managementdebuggingcloud infrastructureCI/CDdbtAirflow

Soft Skills

leadershipcollaborationcommunicationproject managementoperational ownership