Remote Senior Software Developer, Streaming Platform

Description:

• Wealthsimple is seeking a Senior Software Developer for their Streaming Platform team, which is part of the Platform Engineering team.
• The team is responsible for providing the platform, standards, and tools to leverage streaming technologies such as Flink, Temporal, Kafka, and Confluent.
• The role involves improving the recoverability of Flink jobs and infrastructure, leading to accurate financial metrics for clients.
• The developer will build a platform that enables timely release of data projects and create a reliable infrastructure for teams to build and deploy at scale.
• Immediate projects include strengthening reliability and reducing recovery time for Flink jobs, enabling real-time metrics for Kafka, and migrating the Temporal cluster to Kubernetes.
• Responsibilities include improving the reliability of Flink jobs, building tools for a great developer experience, ensuring scalability and reliability of the platform, partnering with cross-functional teams, keeping up with industry best practices, and mentoring team members.

Requirements:

• Candidates must have strong knowledge of building, maintaining, and scaling real-time data ingestion and processing frameworks such as Flink, Kafka, and Temporal.
• Previous end-to-end experience in designing, building, and supporting cloud infrastructure on AWS and Kubernetes is required.
• Strong knowledge of software and infrastructure development best practices is essential to improve the developer experience.
• The ability to adapt and deliver meaningful work in a fast-paced environment is necessary.
• Candidates should possess a collaborative and open communication style, with experience in delivering clear and concise messages to cross-discipline teams.

Benefits:

• Wealthsimple offers a competitive salary along with top-tier health benefits and life insurance.
• There is a retirement savings matching plan using Wealthsimple for Business.
• Employees receive 20 vacation days per year, plus unlimited sick and mental health days.
• Up to $1,500 per year is provided for wellness and professional development budgets.
• The company has a 90 days away program, allowing employees to work internationally in eligible countries for up to 90 days per calendar year.
• Wealthsimple promotes a variety of peer and company-led Employee Resource Groups.
• Company-wide wellness days off are scheduled throughout the year.
• The company operates as a remote-first team with over 1,000 employees across North America.