Senior Software Developer - People Intelligence

Build something people love

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 $169 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.

We're proud of what we've built — and we're just getting started. Read our Culture Manual and learn more about how we work.

About the team

People Intelligence sits within People and Communications. We build the data and products behind talent decisions at every level — from leaders, managers, and employees. Our partners in Total Rewards, HRBP, Talent Management, and People Operations depend on what we ship..The team is a growing team, and you will help set the engineering standard for how we build.

In this role, you'll have the opportunity to:

• Lead technical projects from first design through launch and iteration, across products such as performance cycles, compensation planning, talent reviews, total rewards statements, and self-service tools.

• Design scalable architectures that integrate with our internal systems (i.e. Workday, Ashby, etc.) and our people data platform, that holds up when the whole company is in a review or compensation cycle.

• Build with security in mind from the first commit, including role and reporting-line access, protection for compensation and performance data, and an audit trail on every change.

• Work directly with Total Rewards, HR business partners, Talent Management, and People Operations to understand how each program runs, transforming it into products that managers and employees want to use.

• AI is native to you, and speeds up how you design, build, and test, to help the team adopt the workflows that hold up.

• Raise the technical bar through design reviews, code review, documentation, and mentorship.

Skills you bring:

• 5+ years of professional software development, with a track record of building internal tools and production systems that employees and teams depend on every day.

• Full-stack experience building web applications, with depth in at least one of Ruby, Python, TypeScript, or Kotlin, and a modern frontend framework such as React.

• Experience designing systems that handle sensitive data, including authentication, fine-grained authorization, and auditability.

• Clear communication with non-technical partners, and the product judgment to simplify a complex process rather than rebuild.

• Experience taking a product from 0 to 1, including making architectural calls with incomplete information and revisiting them as you learn.

Nice-to-have's:

• Experience building HR or people products, such as performance management, compensation planning, talent management, or employee self-service. We value this domain depth highly.

• Experience integrating with an HRIS such as Workday, including its APIs and effective-dated data and other HR related systems (i.e. Ashby, Lever, Shareworks, Okta, etc.)

• Familiarity with how people programs run, including review and calibration cycles, compensation bands and merit planning, and job architecture.

• Experience in a regulated or privacy-sensitive environment.

Who you are:

• You are self-directed, and you find the next problem worth solving without waiting for a ticket.

• You are curious about how things work, and you ask why a process exists before you change it.

• You treat employee data with care and think about privacy and access as design constraints from the start.

• You would rather ship a simple version, learn from real users, and improve it than hold back a perfect one.

• You own outcomes, not just code, and you stay with a product after it launches.

• You make the people around you better through pairing, reviews, and clear writing.

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.

*Unlimited paid sick days, Wellness Days and the 90 day away program do not apply to certain roles.

ICYMI

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.