Posted at: 15 August
Senior Software Developer, Privacy Engineering
Company
CompanyWealthsimple
Wealthsimple is a Toronto-based fintech B2C platform offering automated investment management, financial advisory, and trading services, targeting individuals in Canada and beyond.
Remote Hiring Policy:
Wealthsimple is a remote-first company primarily hiring from Canada, with team members located across North America. Employees can also work internationally in eligible countries for up to 90 days per year.
Job Type
Job TypeFull-time
Allowed Applicant Locations
Allowed Applicant LocationsCanada, North America
Job Description
Senior Software Developer, Privacy Engineering
Remote
Data & Engineering – Security /
Remote
Your career is an investment that grows over time!
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 4 million users who trust us with more than $70 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 Privacy Engineering team is a specialized group focused on designing and implementing controls to enable secure access to sensitive data across our environment in a manner that is simplified, quick, reduces toil and decreases risk. The group develops and maintains the technical foundations to handle data responsibly, comply with privacy regulations, and build customer trust. This work spans access control mechanisms, data lifecycle management tools, data masking and anonymization and meeting data protection frameworks and regulations.
We understand that the lists below may seem overwhelming but don't worry, we don't expect you to be an expert in all of them. Instead, we value your unique combination of skills and experiences.
In this role, you will have the opportunity to
- Build and elevate the data governance tech stack in the org by integration to critical assets
- Design and implement technical controls for least privilege access to data
- Develop data masking and anonymization solutions to protect PII
- Help build alerting systems to detect and respond to unusual data access patterns
- Build and oversee automated tools for data lifecycle management and retention
- Partner with security, compliance, privacy and product teams to ensure privacy by design
- Enable responsible data use that balances innovation with privacy protection
What you'll bring
- Experience with some of our key technologies: Typescript, React, React Native, GraphQL, Python and Ruby on Rails
- Experience building in the cloud like AWS and with things like S3, Kafka, EKS, Redshift, Snowflake
- Understanding of data exposure risks and applying data security principals to decrease risk exposure
- Understanding of data classification, identification and discovery systems like data flow mapping and lineage tools
- Working with data protection frameworks and regulations
- A security led mindset where you seek to build and ship secure solutions
- Flexibility and creativity: you enjoy coming up with novel ways to solve problems and work through constraints
- Value open communication and working on an exceptionally transparent, debate-and-feedback-driven team
- Experience in and a desire to mentor fellow developers through pairing, code review, and in-the-moment feedback
- Experience with Access control systems and identity managementExperience with security tooling like DLP controls
Why Wealthsimple?
🤑 Competitive salary with top-tier health benefits and life insurance
📈 Retirement savings matching plan using Wealthsimple for Business
🌴 20 vacation days per year and unlimited sick and mental health days
📚 Up to $1,500 per year towards wellness and professional development budgets respectively
🛫 90 days away program: Employees can work internationally in eligible countries for up to 90 days per calendar year
🌎 A wide variety of peer and company-led Employee Resource Groups (ie. Rainbow, Women of Wealthsimple, Black @ WS)
💖 Company-wide wellness days off scheduled throughout the year
We’re a remote-first team, with over 1,000 employees coast to coast in North America. Be a part of our Canadian success story and help shape the financial future of millions — join us!
Technology & Innovation at Wealthsimple
We believe the future belongs to those who innovate boldly. At Wealthsimple, every team member is expected to lean into new technologies, including AI, and tooling to rethink how we work, solve problems faster, and create even greater value. We're looking for people who are not just comfortable with change but energized by it. Our commitment is to build a company that evolves at the pace of the world around us, and we want you to help lead that future.
DEI Statement
At Wealthsimple, we are building products for a diverse world and we need a diverse team to do that successfully. We strongly encourage applications from everyone regardless of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status.
Accessibility Statement
Wealthsimple provides an accessible candidate experience. If you need any accommodations or adjustments throughout the interview process and beyond, please let us know, and we will work with you to provide the necessary support and make reasonable accommodations to facilitate your participation. We are continuously working to improve our accessibility practices and welcome any feedback or suggestions on how we can better accommodate candidates with accessibility needs.
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