Senior Front End Software Developer (Trading)
Wealthsimple Inc.
As a Senior Front End Engineer on our trading and investing teams, you’ll own meaningful slices of the experiences at the heart of Canada’s first zero-commission brokerage - the surfaces over 4 million Canadians rely on, and invest with
This is a pipeline role across several frontend-focused teams, including Order Execution and Options Trading, and we’ll match you to the team where your experience and interests fit best
These are high-visibility, high-stakes surfaces: the order flow across equities, options, and crypto, and the trading experiences active clients use every day
A slow screen or a mishandled order is felt immediately by our clients, so the bar for reliability, performance, and craft is high
You’ll bring strong technical judgment, a bias toward action, and a deep sense of ownership, working closely with product managers, designers, and engineers to turn complex, high-stakes problems into simple, reliable trading experiences
Own complex, end-to-end frontend projects across the trading experience - from technical design through implementation, launch, and iteration
Build and improve the client-facing surfaces that power our order flow and trading products, with a focus on reliability, performance, and correctness
Work on high-stakes client journeys: order entry and execution, options trading, real-time market data, and portfolio experiences across equities, options, and crypto
Make thoughtful architectural decisions and help the team balance speed, quality, and scale — influence what we build, how we build it, and where we go next
Partner closely with Product and Design to clarify goals, surface trade-offs, and deliver outcomes, not just features
Build with the reliability and observability standards that trading journeys demand — clients notice the moment something is slow or wrong
Leverage AI-centric workflows to ship faster and safer — we invest heavily in AI tooling and expect senior engineers to push the frontier of how we use these tools
Raise the technical bar through design reviews, code reviews, documentation, pairing, and mentorship
Benefits
Retirement savings matching plan through Wealthsimple Work
Company equity for full-time employees
Access to Premium Client perks, including personal finance learning & advice and a boosted interest rate on deposits
Paid parental leave (6 months topped up to 100% of salary)
20 vacation days per year
90 Days Away program
Top-tier health benefits
Life & disability insurance
Generous sick and mental health days
Gender Affiliation benefits
Up to $5,000 per year for mental health supports
Employee resource plan including services like RMT, psychology, and physiotherapy
Up to $1,500 per year for professional development
Up to $1,500 per year for wellness and home office expenses
Employee resource groups
Social impact hours
Strong frontend fundamentals with React and TypeScript, and ideally React Native — you build performant, reliable client experiences and understand how they behave under real-world conditionsAn AI-first development workflow that doesn’t compromise on rigour — you’ve moved beyond AI as autocomplete into genuinely agentic workflows, and bring the judgment to know when the model is wrong, where the risks are, and what verification a change needs before it touches productionTechnical leadership and strong communication — you raise the bar through your code, reviews, and design docs, navigate ambiguity, and bring others along with a collaborative, low-ego approach5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a track record of shipping production-grade systems that real users depend onProduct judgment and a maker-owner mindset — you care about the client problem, simplify complexity, and want to own and grow a domain over time, not just ship the next ticketNative mobile experience (Swift/iOS or Kotlin/Android) is a strong plus, whether you’ve built native apps directly or directed and reviewed native workGraphQL and performance optimization experienceExperience building trading, brokerage, or other real-time, high-reliability financial surfacesRuby on Rails, Kotlin, or Java experience — helpful for working across the stack, but not a requirement; depth and willingness to ramp matter moreExperience in a fast-moving environment where engineers have broad ownership and meaningful influence over product decisionsPassionate about trading and investing, perhaps even an active investor or trader yourself, and you use that perspective to build experiences that feel intuitive to people managing their own money
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This is a pipeline role across several frontend-focused teams, including Order Execution and Options Trading, and we’ll match you to the team where your experience and interests fit best
These are high-visibility, high-stakes surfaces: the order flow across equities, options, and crypto, and the trading experiences active clients use every day
A slow screen or a mishandled order is felt immediately by our clients, so the bar for reliability, performance, and craft is high
You’ll bring strong technical judgment, a bias toward action, and a deep sense of ownership, working closely with product managers, designers, and engineers to turn complex, high-stakes problems into simple, reliable trading experiences
Own complex, end-to-end frontend projects across the trading experience - from technical design through implementation, launch, and iteration
Build and improve the client-facing surfaces that power our order flow and trading products, with a focus on reliability, performance, and correctness
Work on high-stakes client journeys: order entry and execution, options trading, real-time market data, and portfolio experiences across equities, options, and crypto
Make thoughtful architectural decisions and help the team balance speed, quality, and scale — influence what we build, how we build it, and where we go next
Partner closely with Product and Design to clarify goals, surface trade-offs, and deliver outcomes, not just features
Build with the reliability and observability standards that trading journeys demand — clients notice the moment something is slow or wrong
Leverage AI-centric workflows to ship faster and safer — we invest heavily in AI tooling and expect senior engineers to push the frontier of how we use these tools
Raise the technical bar through design reviews, code reviews, documentation, pairing, and mentorship
Benefits
Retirement savings matching plan through Wealthsimple Work
Company equity for full-time employees
Access to Premium Client perks, including personal finance learning & advice and a boosted interest rate on deposits
Paid parental leave (6 months topped up to 100% of salary)
20 vacation days per year
90 Days Away program
Top-tier health benefits
Life & disability insurance
Generous sick and mental health days
Gender Affiliation benefits
Up to $5,000 per year for mental health supports
Employee resource plan including services like RMT, psychology, and physiotherapy
Up to $1,500 per year for professional development
Up to $1,500 per year for wellness and home office expenses
Employee resource groups
Social impact hours
Strong frontend fundamentals with React and TypeScript, and ideally React Native — you build performant, reliable client experiences and understand how they behave under real-world conditionsAn AI-first development workflow that doesn’t compromise on rigour — you’ve moved beyond AI as autocomplete into genuinely agentic workflows, and bring the judgment to know when the model is wrong, where the risks are, and what verification a change needs before it touches productionTechnical leadership and strong communication — you raise the bar through your code, reviews, and design docs, navigate ambiguity, and bring others along with a collaborative, low-ego approach5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a track record of shipping production-grade systems that real users depend onProduct judgment and a maker-owner mindset — you care about the client problem, simplify complexity, and want to own and grow a domain over time, not just ship the next ticketNative mobile experience (Swift/iOS or Kotlin/Android) is a strong plus, whether you’ve built native apps directly or directed and reviewed native workGraphQL and performance optimization experienceExperience building trading, brokerage, or other real-time, high-reliability financial surfacesRuby on Rails, Kotlin, or Java experience — helpful for working across the stack, but not a requirement; depth and willingness to ramp matter moreExperience in a fast-moving environment where engineers have broad ownership and meaningful influence over product decisionsPassionate about trading and investing, perhaps even an active investor or trader yourself, and you use that perspective to build experiences that feel intuitive to people managing their own money
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