Software Developer Intern

• At Wealthsimple, we offer 4 to 8-month internships that are open to co-op and non-co-op students, and recent grads. During your internship, you will have the opportunity to contribute to projects that are changing the landscape of financial services for Canadians
• You will be on a team that supports your growth, provides mentorship, and connects you to the broader Wealthsimple community!
• Our engineering organization spans everything from product-focused pods to financial infrastructure, building the software that powers our entire suite of services
• We operate with a platform-as-a-product mindset, leveraging microservices and an agile, high-iteration approach. With rigorous automated testing and a deployment frequency of 100+ times a day, we move fast while staying secure
• We empower our high-performing teams with the autonomy they need to ship impactful work, collaborating closely across Product, Design, and Ops to ensure we’re building products our clients love
• Product Engineering:
• Drives the development of our core offerings across Investing, Banking, Tiers, and Marketing. This team builds intuitive and impactful features that empower millions to achieve their financial goals. If you’re passionate about crafting user-centric solutions and seeing your work make a real difference, this is your team
• Platform Engineering:
• Empowers developers by providing the platforms, tools, and infrastructure needed to build and maintain fast, reliable, secure, and scalable systems. Teams include Brokerage Execution, Data Delivery, Data Platform, Design System, and ML Platform — built with a platform-as-a-product mindset
• Financial Operating System (FOS):
• Offers the fundamental financial building blocks that power our products. Teams including Book of Record and Identity Trust manage core financial operations — building a real-time ledger for improved scalability and enabling product teams to innovate with confidence
• Our Tech Stack:
• Microservice architecture with 100+ services in production
• ~50% Ruby on Rails, ~50% Java/Kotlin; frontend in React/Angular
• Hosted on AWS (RDS, Aurora, SQS, SNS, S3, Kafka)
• Deploying code 100+ times a day with rigorous automated testing
• Best-in-class tooling for profiling, logging, tracing, and experimentation

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
• Employee resource plan including services like RMT, psychology, and physiotherapy
• Up to $5,000 per year for mental health supports
• Gender Affirmation benefits
• 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