Senior Software Developer, Reliability

A financial technology company providing investment and financial services to help bring financial freedom to Canadians.
Site Reliability
Senior Software Engineer
Remote
Finance

Description For Senior Software Developer, Reliability

Wealthsimple is seeking a Senior Software Developer specializing in Reliability to join their team in a remote capacity. This role is crucial as Wealthsimple handles clients' life savings and must maintain unwavering reliability in their financial services. The Reliability Engineering team plays a vital role in empowering service owners to deploy new features while ensuring system reliability.

As a Senior Software Developer in Reliability, you'll take ownership of creating and maintaining reliability tools that empower teams across Wealthsimple. Your work will directly impact the company's priority of delivering a reliable, error-free product experience to millions of Canadians. You'll be working with various technologies including Ruby, Java/Kotlin, NodeJS, AWS, and Kubernetes.

The role combines technical leadership, system architecture, and mentorship. You'll lead key reliability projects, develop highly performant systems, provide observability metrics, and foster a reliability-focused culture. Your expertise will help shape technical implementations and cultural narratives as the business continues to grow.

The ideal candidate brings extensive experience in building and maintaining large-scale systems, deep full-stack knowledge, and a strong reliability mindset. You should be passionate about mentorship, capable of clear communication across disciplines, and ready to stay current with industry trends in SRE and infrastructure.

Join Wealthsimple to help build the future of financial services while ensuring rock-solid reliability for millions of users trusting the platform with their financial future. This position offers the flexibility of remote work while being part of a mission to bring financial freedom to Canadians through technology.

Last updated 6 days ago

Responsibilities For Senior Software Developer, Reliability

  • Lead key Reliability projects including planning, scoping and stakeholder communication
  • Develop and improve code for highly performant systems and tooling
  • Provide high quality data and observability metrics
  • Coach and mentor users across different tech stacks
  • Foster and evolve Reliability culture through automation and incident management
  • Stay up to date with latest industry trends in SRE, operations, and Infrastructure

Requirements For Senior Software Developer, Reliability

Ruby
Java
Kotlin
Node.js
Kubernetes
  • Proven experience building, evolving, and maintaining large, reliable, and scalable systems
  • Deep experience across the stack with a Reliability mindset
  • Proven ability to establish and enforce backend development standards
  • Collaborative and open approach to communication
  • Passion for mentorship

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