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Senior Software Developer - Database Solutions

Remote Canada
Ruby JavaScript Redis Kubernetes Terraform Docker DynamoDB PostgreSQL Oracle Python Microservices AWS Ansible
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Description
Your career is an investment that grows over time!

Wealthsimple is on a mission to help everyone achieve financial freedom by reimagining what it means to manage your money. Using smart technology, we take financial services that are often confusing, opaque and expensive and make them transparent and low-cost for everyone. We’re the largest fintech company in Canada, with over 4 million users who trust us with more than $50 billion in assets.

Our teams ship often and make an impact with groundbreaking ideas. We're looking for talented people who keep it simple and value collaboration and humility as we continue to create inclusive and high-performing teams where people can be inspired to do their best work.

About the Platform Engineering Team:
We aim to design, build and provide scalable, secure, and stable infrastructure, while also enabling our engineers to quickly and easily deploy new code. The Wealthsimple ecosystem is primarily Ruby on Rails and JavaScript micro services, with state backed by Aurora (PostgreSQL) and Redis. The infrastructure-specific stack you will work on is powered by AWS, built by Ansible, deployed with Terraform, run on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, powered by Docker and Consul and finally, orchestrated by Nomad and "coming soon" Kubernetes.

Data-Stores team is a part of the Platform Engineering team in Wealthsimple with the mandate of strengthening our data infrastructure through stewardship of all our storage systems, including: Oracle EBS, Aurora Postgres RDS, DynamoDB and Redis. The team set and standardize best practices, administer and build tools to improve the reliability, scalability, and usability of these systems.

What you will do:

  • Partner with stakeholders across different product domains, infrastructure, and leadership, driving data related technical problems at scale
  • Design, Administer, Maintain, monitor and conduct performance tuning efforts for data systems such as AWS Aurora Postgres, Redis/Elasticache, DynamoDB, Oracle, etc
  • Design and implement backup and recovery plans
  • Ensure Data stores scalability and reliability through proactive analysis and thorough capacity planning
  • Work in partnership with stakeholders to understand client integration requirements and business processes with our data stores
  • Ensure the reliability, security, and performance of integration solutions through rigorous testing and quality assurance
  • Create and maintain detailed technical documentation, including technical specifications, code documentation, and progress reports
  • Work with a large amount of autonomy to set the technical direction for scalable projects

Who you are:

  • 3+ years experience as a database solution architect. This may include, but is not limited to, prior roles in solutions architecture, software engineering, or software development
  • Experience with AWS Aurora Postgres, Redis, Enterprise Redis, AWS Elasticache and NoSQL databases like DynamoDB
  • Proficiency in Python, data transformation and data migration
  • An ability to understand how to organize and consolidate customers' data in various formats and from various source applications
  • Experience with database performance tuning and optimization
  • Ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions
  • Experience with design and implementation of high performance systems with reliable monitoring and logging
Why Wealthsimple?
🤑 Competitive salary with top-tier health benefits and life insurance
📈 Retirement savings matching plan using Wealthsimple Work
🌴 20 vacation days per year and unlimited sick and mental health days
📚 Up to $1,500 per year towards wellness and professional development budgets respectively 
🛫 90 days away program: Employees can work internationally in eligible countries for up to 90 days per calendar year 
🌎 A wide variety of peer and company-led Employee Resource Groups (ie. Rainbow, Women of Wealthsimple, Black @ WS)
💖 Company-wide wellness days off scheduled throughout the year

We’re a remote-first team, with over 1,000 employees coast to coast in North America. Be a part of our Canadian success story and help shape the financial future of millions — join us!

Read our Culture Manual and learn more about how we work.

DEI Statement
At Wealthsimple, we are building products for a diverse world and we need a diverse team to do that successfully. We strongly encourage applications from everyone regardless of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status. 

Accessibility Statement
Wealthsimple provides an accessible candidate experience. If you need any accommodations or adjustments throughout the interview process and beyond, please let us know, and we will work with you to provide the necessary support and make reasonable accommodations to facilitate your participation. We are continuously working to improve our accessibility practices and welcome any feedback or suggestions on how we can better accommodate candidates with accessibility needs.
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