Senior Frontend Software Developer, Options
Wealthsimple, Canada

• Proven experience as a Frontend Software Developer.
• Experience with our key technologies: React and TypeScript.
• Deep care and focus on operational excellence.
• An inquisitive mindset: you have the desire to learn new skills, the ability to ask questions, and remain open to new ideas and perspectives.
• Proactive communication skills and a willingness to work directly with designers, product managers, and other collaborators to focus on quality, testing, system design and building iteratively.
• Experience in and a desire to mentor fellow developers through pairing, code review, and in-the-moment feedback.
• Experience with GraphQL (Apollo) and with optimizing performance is a nice to have!

• Learn about the foundations of Wealthsimple, and our current goals for the future that you will start to shape.
• Meet other new Wealthsimplers in your onboarding group and key people from each department, to start to build relationships across the company.
• Gather an understanding of our technology by pair-programming with your teammates and attending engineering onboarding sessions designed and presented by your peers.
• Have an assigned buddy within your team that will assist you in getting up-to-speed with our architecture and current projects.

• Learn Wealthsimple’s technical stack and apply our development patterns and best practices through your work.
• Buddy up for your first on-call rotation to help identify and resolve production issues and bugs clients have experienced.
• Contribute and support work in a new or existing product and share your work with the team.
• Learn how to query our data to measure the impact of your work.
• Support over a million clients on their financial journey by shipping your first project or feature in a secure, and scalable way.

• Reliably ship new features to our clients, following our best practices such as shipping daily, writing automated tests and monitoring.
• Contribute to or lead the technical design of a project, while understanding how it will shape our future architecture.
• Collaborate with other developers on the team while mentoring and providing continuous feedback via code reviews.
• Develop a big picture perspective and understand how our tools and frameworks come together. You’ll feel comfortable contributing to various codebases.

• Lead your first project: planning, scoping and regularly communicating progress to stakeholders to ensure the quality and timelines.
• Have provided leverage to our engineering teams by shipping new best practices and tools for all to benefit from.
• Participate in our hiring process and shape the growth of the Engineering team.
• Have worked closely with our product and design teams, contributing your own feedback and opinions on design and UX.

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