Wealthsimple is Canada’s leading financial innovator. The company offers a full suite of simple, sophisticated financial products across managed investing, do-it-yourself trading, cryptocurrency, tax filing, spending and saving. Wealthsimple currently serves more than 4 million Canadians and holds over $125 billion in assets under administration. The company was founded in 2014 by a team of financial experts and technology entrepreneurs, and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.
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About the Team
Join the team responsible for defining the gold standard of financial onboarding in Canada. We are not just building forms; we are transforming a classically painful experience, opening a bank account, into a truly magical and seamless journey. If you are an expert front-end developer who obsesses over meticulous polish and world-class user experience, this is your chance to lead our continued pursuit of excellence. You will be instrumental in two critical areas: first, architecting and scaling our foundational frontend SDKs that empower other teams to efficiently compose their unique onboarding flows; and second, directly developing core, complex components like Know Your Client (KYC), Identity Verification (IDV), and agreement signing. This role requires a visionary who can deliver significant advances in both cutting-edge UX and robust, extensible frontend architecture. While your focus will be purely on the front-end, comfort with occasionally adjusting adjacent backend code is a valuable asset in maintaining end-to-end efficiency.
Requirements:
Expert experience with Typescript, React, React Native, and familiarity with modern frontend state management, testing, and bundling tools.
Experience with native mobile development is a plus.
Experience building and operating scalable frontend components and services.
Experience with frontend performance profiling and optimization.
Nice to have experience with backend languages like Ruby / SQL / Java (Kotlin) and GraphQL, reflecting the occasional need to touch backend code to serve frontend work.
Within 1 month, you'll:
Learn about the foundations of Wealthsimple, and our current goals for the future that you will start to shape.
Meet other new Wealthsimplers in your onboarding group and key people from each department, to start to build relationships across the company.
Gather an understanding of our technology by pair-programming with your teammates and attending engineering onboarding sessions designed and presented by your peers.
Complete your first feature implementation and ship your first meaningful contributions to production.
Within 3 months, you'll:
Consistently deliver high-quality code with minimal need for unblocking, demonstrating strong ownership of the end-to-end feature lifecycle.
Buddy up for your first on-call rotation to help identify and resolve production issues and bugs clients have experienced.
Support over a million clients on their financial journey by shipping your first project or feature in a secure, and scalable way. 🚀
You are actively developing a deep understanding of our business objectives and key technical challenges, enabling you to proactively identify areas for improvement and propose future solutions.
Within 6 months, you'll:
Lead the planning, technical design, and execution of a major feature or initiative, ensuring alignment with our frontend architectural north star.
Effectively break down large technical work items, develop medium to long-term plans, and delegate tasks to maintain high team throughput.
Reliably ship new features to our clients, following our best practices such as shipping daily, writing automated tests and monitoring.
Collaborate with other developers on the team while mentoring and providing continuous feedback via code reviews.
🌸 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.
Technology & Innovation at Wealthsimple: We move quickly and build thoughtfully. That means we're always looking for better ways to work — whether that's new tools, AI, or rethinking how we approach a problem. We don't expect you to have all the answers, but we do expect curiosity and a willingness to evolve alongside the products we're building.
Inclusion Statement: We're building products for a diverse world, and we need a diverse team to do it well. We strongly encourage applications from everyone, regardless of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status.
Accessibility Statement: We're committed to an accessible hiring experience. If you need any accommodations throughout the interview process, please let us know — we'll work with you to make sure you have what you need. We also welcome any feedback on how we can better accommodate candidates with accessibility needs.
AI in Hiring: We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of our hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our team but don't replace human judgment – all final hiring decisions are made by people. If you have questions about how your data is used, reach out to us.