Wealthsimple

Senior Software Developer, Delivery Platform

Wealthsimple • $120K — $145K *
US-AnywhereRemote in Canada
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of software development experience, particularly in platform engineering, DevOps, CI/CD, or site reliability engineering.
  • Proficient with Kubernetes and GitOps workflows, specifically ArgoCD; familiar with progressive delivery techniques.
  • Skilled in building and maintaining CI/CD systems with tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar.
  • Experience in reliability engineering and creating observable systems using Datadog or Prometheus.
  • Technical versatility in multiple programming languages such as TypeScript, Ruby, Python, or Kotlin.
  • Knowledge of AWS and Terraform for infrastructure automation and reliability.
  • Strong collaboration and mentorship skills, focused on making colleagues successful.

Responsibilities

  • Evolve progressive delivery processes with Argo Rollouts and GitOps methodologies.
  • Optimize CI/CD infrastructure to enhance speed and reliability for numerous services.
  • Design deployment safety mechanisms such as automated quality checks and health validations.
  • Develop monitoring and alerting dashboards for deployment observability with Datadog.
  • Lead initiatives to improve system reliability and resilience, including chaos testing.
  • Collaborate with teams to address deployment challenges and implement solutions.
  • Mentor and provide support to developers across the organization, enhancing their skills and knowledge.

Benefits

  • Top-tier health benefits and life insurance coverage.
  • Long-term group savings plan with employer match via Wealthsimple for Business.
  • 20 vacation days, 4 wellness days, and unlimited sick/mental health days.
  • Opportunity to work outside Canada for up to 90 days a year.
  • Inclusive employee resource groups supporting diversity and community.
  • Flexible hybrid work environment with a team of over 1,500 dedicated professionals.
Full Job Description
About the Delivery Platform Team

The Delivery Platform team owns the complete deployment lifecycle at Wealthsimple. From the moment code is committed to when it's running reliably in production. We build and maintain the CI/CD infrastructure, deployment systems, and observability tools that enable hundreds of engineers to ship secure, high-quality software to millions of users with confidence and speed.

Our platform encompasses GitHub Actions self-hosted runners for continuous integration, Kargo, ArgoCD and Argo Rollouts for progressive delivery with canaries and automated rollbacks, package publishing and artifact promotion, deployment visibility through Datadog and Backstage. We treat reliability as our north star and deployment velocity as our measure of success.

As a Senior Developer on our team, you won't just be maintaining pipelines; you'll be architecting the systems that make shipping code at Wealthsimple fast, safe, and transparent. You will support a diverse engineering organization that uses Ruby, Python, Kotlin, and TypeScript to build the future of finance. Your work will directly empower hundreds of developers to deploy with confidence many times per day.

In this role you'll have the opportunity to:
  • Evolve progressive delivery with Argo Rollouts and GitOps. Enhance our canary deployment strategies, improve automated health checks and rollback triggers, and build self-service deployment tools that give engineering teams the power to ship safely and independently. You'll work directly with Kubernetes, ArgoCD, and Argo Rollouts to make deployments invisible when they work and obvious when they don't.
  • Optimize CI/CD infrastructure at scale. Improve our CI workflows to optimize for speed and reliability, optimize build times across hundreds of services, enhance artifact management and package publishing workflows, and build tools that make continuous integration faster and more dependable.
  • Build deployment gates and guardrails that prevent production incidents. Design and implement automated quality checks including end-to-end testing, load testing, and progressive delivery validations that catch issues before they reach production. You'll be responsible for ensuring every deployment is safe and reversible.
  • Build world-class deployment observability and visibility. Create comprehensive deployment monitoring, dashboards, and alerting through Datadog and custom tooling. Integrate deployment metrics into Backstage to give every engineer real-time insights into their service's deployment health, success rates, and performance characteristics.
  • Drive Wealthsimple's 2026 reliability mission. Reliability is our top priority this year, and you'll be at the center of building systems that make it a reality. Implement chaos testing frameworks to validate system resilience, build automated rollback mechanisms, and create deployment confidence metrics that teams can trust.
  • Champion engineering excellence and mentorship. Partner with teams across Wealthsimple to understand their deployment pain points and build solutions that increase their velocity. Share your expertise through documentation, training sessions, and code reviews. Mentor mid-level engineers on the team and across the organization.


What you'll bring:
  • 7+ years of experience in software development as part of a team, with significant experience in platform engineering, DevOps, CI/CD, or site reliability engineering.
  • Deep expertise with modern deployment and orchestration technologies. Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, GitOps workflows (ArgoCD or similar), progressive delivery patterns, and managing CI/CD infrastructure at scale. You understand canary deployments, blue-green strategies, and automated rollback mechanisms.
  • Strong experience building and operating deployment pipelines. You've designed, built, and maintained CI/CD systems using tools like Buildkite, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or similar. You know how to optimize build times, manage artifacts, and ensure pipeline reliability.
  • Expertise in reliability engineering and observability. Experience building observable systems with monitoring platforms like Datadog, Prometheus, or similar. You understand SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and how to build systems that are measurable and resilient.
  • Technical versatility with multiple languages. Experience with TypeScript, Ruby, Python, Kotlin, or similar languages. You're comfortable writing tooling, automation, and infrastructure code across different technology stacks.
  • Infrastructure as code and cloud platforms. Experience with AWS, Terraform, or similar infrastructure automation tools. You know how to build and maintain infrastructure that's reproducible, version-controlled, and scalable.
  • Product mindset for internal platforms. You treat deployment infrastructure as a product, with internal developers as your customers. You're driven to understand their pain points, measure the impact of your work, and build elegant solutions that make their lives better.
  • A collaborative spirit and passion for mentorship. You believe in making your colleagues successful and enjoy coaching other developers. You're comfortable presenting technical concepts to diverse audiences and building consensus across teams.
  • Data-informed decision-making. You use metrics to identify opportunities, measure impact, and guide technical decisions. You're comfortable establishing baselines, setting targets, and tracking progress toward goals.


Why Wealthsimple?

🌸 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

We are a hybrid team with over 1,500 employees across North America. The people are one of the best parts of working here: you'll collaborate with incredibly talented, curious, and driven teammates who are deeply committed to doing great work.

About Wealthsimple

Wealthsimple is a financial services company that provides online investment management and trading services. The company's platform allows users to invest in a variety of financial products, including stocks, bonds, and exchange-traded funds (ETFs), and offers a range of tools and resources to help users manage their investments. Wealthsimple also offers a high-interest savings account and a tax preparation service. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.
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Founded
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