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Base City: 

Remote-Canada - Remote

Salary: 

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Self-taught: 

Position Type: 

Full-time

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Other Experience: 

  • Has knowledge of and experience working with traditional tools/practices/patterns in data platform engineering, such as data warehousing, orchestration, transformation, BI, etc
  • Is a self starter who can independently identify problem spaces, prioritize them, break down into potential solutions, evaluate those solutions and then execute on them
  • Has experience practicing software engineering best practices such as test driven development, continuous integration/deployment, etc
  • Has exceptional communication skills, adept at liaising between technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Has the skills to dive into a multitude of code bases, across different languages and domains spanning front-end to back-end to infrastructure

Nice to have:

  • Proficiency with Python and SQL
  • Experience with managing and developing data warehouse/lakehouse tools and tech and such as Redshift, Snowflake, Trino, Iceberg, etc
  • Experience with data catalogue or metadata store tooling, such as DataHub, OpenMetadata, etc
  • Experience working with Airflow or Temporal or other orchestration tooling such as Dagster or Prefect
  • Experience with data transformation tooling such as DBT, Spark, etc
  • Experience working with BI tools such as Superset, Mode, Sisense, Tableau, etc
  • Familiarity with AWS or other cloud service providers, ideally AWS data tooling such as Redshift, S3, RDS, etc
  • Experience working with data in secure and regulated environments (SOC1/2, PCI-DSS, etc..)

About the Job: 

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 3 million users who trust us with more than $20 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 Team
The Order Generation team holds the reins of the algorithm and execution logic for several client-facing products, including Wealthsimple Invest, and Wealthsimple Private Credit. Our role is to be the bridge that connects the strategic goals of our clients with the operational nuances of a robo-advisory platform.


We orchestrate a seamless confluence of data streams and algorithmic decision-making that propels our trading platforms forward. In this role, you will be stepping into a dynamic ecosystem where feedback loops with key stakeholders are tight, collaboration is rich, and where your contributions are immediately and visibly impactful.

What they want you to do: 

  • Scope, design and build services, tools and infrastructure in our data platform across a variety of domains and tech stacks from our data warehouse, to orchestration, transformation, BI, data discovery or more
  • Become the technical leader and owner for a given domain within our data platform, helping set the vision and lead development efforts
  • Collaborate with data scientists, software developers, and other stakeholders to understand data needs and deliver solutions
  • Teach and learn from your teammates, and have opportunities to be a coach and mentor to others. We believe in the power of collective knowledge and the importance of fostering a culture of continuous learning and mutual success
  • Be an advocate and educator for best practices in data, for both the direction of our platform, and for the users of our platform

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