Toronto, Ontario, Canada · Hybrid
$151k–$189k/yr
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, cryptocurren…
Skills: Software engineering, Backend development, Card issuance, Payment rails, Authorization flows
Canada · Remote OK
$152k–$189k/yr
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, cryptocurren…
Skills: Kotlin, Java, System design, Backend engineering, Kafka
Canada · Remote OK
$152k–$189k/yr
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, cryptocurren…
Skills: Kubernetes, GitOps, ArgoCD, Argo Rollouts, CI/CD
Canada · Remote OK
$151k–$189k/yr
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, cryptocurren…
Skills: Product management, Product-led growth, Consumer product strategy, Viral loops, Network effects
Canada · Remote OK
$112k–$145k/yr
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, cryptocurren…
Skills: Canadian income tax, Sales tax compliance, T2 return preparation, Tax accounting, IFRS
Canada · Remote OK
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, cryptocurren…
Skills: Product management, Strategic planning, Data analysis, Cross-functional leadership, Technical architecture
Canada · Remote OK
$151k–$189k/yr
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, cryptocurren…
Skills: Blockchain, Stablecoins, DeFi, Smart contract development, EVM
Toronto, Ontario, Canada · Hybrid
$90k–$112k/yr
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, cryptocurren…
Skills: AML, CTF, Team leadership, Coaching, Transaction monitoring
Canada · Remote OK
$90k–$112k/yr
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, cryptocurren…
Skills: Workday Payroll, Workday Absence, Workday Time Tracking, Workday Core HCM, System configuration
Canada · Remote OK
$116k–$145k/yr
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, cryptocurren…
Skills: Process mapping, Process redesign, Workday, AI tools, Agentic workflows
Toronto, Ontario, Canada · Remote OK
$54k–$68k/yr
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, cryptocurren…
Skills: Securities lending, Operations, Trade settlement, Reconciliation, Excel
Toronto, Ontario, Canada · Hybrid
$151k–$189k/yr
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, cryptocurren…
Skills: Backend Engineering, System Design, Data Engineering, Distributed Compute, Postgres
Canada · Remote OK
$70k–$87k/yr
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, cryptocurren…
Skills: Sales Conduct Review, Financial Planning Oversight, Regulatory Compliance, KYC (Know Your Client), KYP (Know Your Product)
Canada · Remote OK
$90k–$112k/yr
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, cryptocurren…
Skills: IT Risk Management, Information Security, GRC, NIST CSF, ISO 27001
Toronto, Ontario, Canada · Hybrid
$151k–$189k/yr
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, cryptocurren…
Skills: Full-stack Development, Data Pipelines, AI-augmented Workflow Automation, Internal Tooling, Financial Domain Expertise
Toronto, Ontario, Canada · Hybrid
$70k–$87k/yr
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, cryptocurren…
Skills: Marketing automation, Braze, Iterable, HTML/CSS, SQL
Canada · Remote OK
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, cryptocurren…
Skills: Engineering Management, Observability Platform Design, OpenTelemetry, SLI/SLO Design, Event-Based Systems
Canada · Hybrid
$152k–$190k/yr
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, cryptocurren…
Skills: Demand Generation, B2B Marketing, Account Based Marketing, Paid Media Optimization, Lead Scoring
Canada · Remote OK
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, cryptocurren…
Skills: Observability Platform Design, OpenTelemetry, Kotlin, Ruby, High-Cardinality Data Systems
Toronto, Ontario, Canada · Hybrid
$151k–$189k/yr
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, cryptocurren…
Skills: Java, Kotlin, SQL, React, Double-entry Bookkeeping
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You will own the end-to-end development of card infrastructure, including issuance, authorization, and transaction processing. You will collaborate with product and design teams to build reliable, scalable backend systems while leveraging AI-driven workflows.
Candidates must have 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with a focus on backend systems in the financial or payments sector. Strong fundamentals in system architecture and a proven track record of building production-grade infrastructure are required.
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 $155 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.
As a Senior Software Developer on the Cards team, you'll own meaningful slices of the card stack end to end — from card issuance and authorization through transaction processing, disputes, rewards, and card lifecycle management. This is not a features-on-top-of-a-BaaS role. We're building card infrastructure in-house, and the person we hire will be able to say they built it.
You'll bring strong technical judgment, a bias toward action, and a deep sense of ownership. You'll work closely with product managers, designers, and engineers to turn complex, high-stakes problems into simple, reliable experiences for millions of Canadians.
Shape and own greenfield work in a space that's still early for Wealthsimple — our card program is still in its early years and there's significant greenfield building ahead; if you've built something from scratch before, that experience will go far here
Own complex, end-to-end projects across the card stack — from technical design through implementation, launch, and iteration
Build and improve the backend systems that power our card products, with a focus on reliability, performance, and correctness
Work on core card infrastructure: card issuance, tokenization, authorization flows, BIN management, transaction processing, card lifecycle management, and dispute infrastructure
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 card journeys demand — a declined tap or a poorly handled dispute is felt immediately by our members
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
Help create a team culture where people communicate clearly, learn quickly, and take ownership together
5+ years of professional software engineering experience and a track record of shipping production-grade systems that real users depend on
Experience building and owning backend systems in a payments, card, or financial services environment — ideally with direct exposure to card issuance, authorization, payment rails, or card lifecycle management
Strong backend engineering fundamentals — you understand how money moves, how systems fail, and how to build for correctness at scale
A maker-owner mindset: you're looking for a place to plant a flag, take ownership of a growing domain, and shape it over time — motivated by building the best card program in Canada, not just shipping the next ticket
Comfort with ambiguity and greenfield work — you've built something from 0→1 before and thrive in an environment where not everything is defined yet
An AI-first development workflow that doesn't compromise on rigour — you've moved beyond AI as autocomplete into genuinely agentic workflows, and bring the engineering judgment to know when the model is wrong
Product judgment: you care about the member problem, can simplify complexity, and know when to iterate versus when to invest for the long term
The ability to navigate ambiguity, define a path forward, and bring others along through clear written and verbal communication
Technical leadership and mentorship instincts — you raise the bar through your code, your reviews, your design documents, and the way you support your teammates
A collaborative, low-ego approach to engineering and a willingness to give and receive candid feedback
Experience working directly with card networks or card processors — on either side of the integration
Experience building card infrastructure in-house rather than on top of a BaaS platform
Ruby on Rails or experience in a comparable backend language — Ruby is helpful but not a requirement; depth and willingness to ramp matter more
React and/or React Native experience
Experience in a fast-moving environment where engineers have broad ownership and meaningful influence over product decisions
🌸 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.
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.
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Better than your bank. wsim.co/legal
Offices: 80 Spadina Ave, 4th Floor, Toronto, Ontario M5V 2J4, CA · 160 Victoria Street, London, England, GB · 20 Jay St, Brooklyn, New York 11201, US
All of your investing, made simple.
Better than your bank. wsim.co/legal
Offices: 80 Spadina Ave, 4th Floor, Toronto, Ontario M5V 2J4, CA · 160 Victoria Street, London, England, GB · 20 Jay St, Brooklyn, New York 11201, US
