Staff Software Developer, Production Engineering

The role

You will provide senior technical leadership to improve reliability at scale. You will work across platform and product teams to design guardrails, build incident response tooling, and drive the adoption of scalable reliability practices.

What you will do

• Improve the platform to prevent incidents by designing guardrails and engineering standards
• Build tooling to reduce time to mitigation, including AI-assisted incident response tools
• Own the investigation and follow-through on load test findings
• Work across platform and product engineering teams as a technical influencer
• Participate in architecture and readiness reviews
• Coach service owners and drive adoption of scalable reliability practices
• Identify recurring failure patterns and design platform-level fixes
• Contribute to reliability syncs with product engineering

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with significant time in platform, infrastructure, or SRE work
• Demonstrated track record of improving reliability at scale
• Strong proficiency in backend systems and distributed architecture
• Experience with load testing and capacity planning
• Proven ability to work across engineering teams as a technical influencer
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, Helm, Argo and modern deployment tooling
• Strong written and verbal communication

Benefits

• Top-tier health benefits and life insurance
• Long-term group savings with employer match, through Wealthsimple for Business
• 20 vacation days
• 4 wellness days
• Unlimited sick and mental health days per year
• 90 days away: work outside Canada for up to 90 days per year

About the company

Wealthsimple is Canada’s leading financial innovator, offering financial products across managed investing, trading, cryptocurrency, tax filing, spending and saving. The company is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.