Senior Software Developer, Bank & Brokerage Linking
Senior Software Developer · Senior · Full Time · Remote
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Role
What you'll do.
Wealthsimple is seeking a Senior Software Developer to build and maintain critical financial data connections, focusing on bank and brokerage integrations across Canada. The role involves developing sophisticated data acquisition systems, leveraging advanced scraping techniques, APIs, and emerging AI-assisted automation to enhance financial data retrieval and reliability.
Responsibilities
- Bank and Brokerage Integration: Build and maintain connections to Canadian financial institutions through advanced scraping, custom flows, and direct APIs
- Data Acquisition Tools: Develop scalable tools to enhance data acquisition reliability and ease of implementation
- AI-Assisted Automation: Implement AI-driven systems to reduce manual scraping work and improve team responsiveness to interface changes
- System Resilience: Design robust systems capable of quickly recovering from institutional interface modifications
- Cross-Team Collaboration: Work closely with product, security, infrastructure, and SRE teams to deliver accurate financial data to clients
- Internal Automation: Continuously improve internal processes to accelerate institution onboarding and maintenance
Qualifications
What we look for.
Technical
Programming Languages
Advanced proficiency in Node.js, with strong skills in asynchronous programming
Web Scraping
Extensive experience building and maintaining scraping systems using headless browsers
Authentication Expertise
Deep understanding of authentication flows, MFA challenges, cookies, sessions, and rate limiting
Education
Computer Science or Related Field
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent professional experience
Experience
Financial Data Integration
Proven experience with data acquisition platforms like Plaid, Flinks, or SnapTrade
Complex Data Parsing
Demonstrated ability to parse intricate financial data including balances, transactions, and holdings
Support and Debugging
Comfortable with on-call duties and investigating critical data pipeline issues
Skills
Required
Node.js
Strong skills in Node.js development and asynchronous programming
Web Scraping
Expertise in building robust web scraping systems
Financial Data Integration
Experience with financial connectivity platforms and data acquisition
Preferred
AI-Assisted Tools
Nice to haveExperience designing automated extraction and repair systems
Financial Systems
Nice to haveBackground in financial data models, reconciliation, or ledger systems
Scalability
Nice to haveExperience building high-variability, large-scale systems
Tech stack
Languages
Databases
Tools
Other
Compensation
Pay and benefits.
Base·CAD 151,200 – 189,000
Equity·Stock options
Benefits
Health Benefits
Top-tier health insurance and life insurance coverage
Retirement Savings
Long-term group savings with employer match through Wealthsimple for Business
Paid Time Off
20 vacation days, 4 wellness days, and unlimited sick and mental health days annually
Remote Work
Option to work outside Canada for up to 90 days per year
Employee Resource Groups
Inclusive workplace with groups supporting diversity and inclusion
Process
Interview steps.
- 01
Initial Screening
Review of application and resume by hiring team
- 02
Technical Interview
In-depth discussion of technical skills, experience with data acquisition, and problem-solving approach
- 03
Practical Assessment
Hands-on coding challenge related to web scraping and data integration
- 04
Team Fit Interview
Meeting with potential team members to assess cultural alignment and collaboration potential
- 05
Final Decision
Comprehensive review by hiring committee with human-led decision making
Full posting
Original listing.
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, cryptocurrency, tax filing, spending and saving. Wealthsimple currently serves more than 4 million Canadians and holds over $125 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.
About the Team
This team builds and maintains the connections that bring external financial data into Wealthsimple. These links power Transfers, Net Worth, Switch-your-Bank, and other core Wealthsimple experiences.
We’re looking for developers who enjoy the challenges of large-scale data acquisition. Developers that look forward to Open Banking in Canada. The work includes scraping, API integrations, resilient pipeline design, and the automation of these systems so we enhance reliability, and move faster with each new institution.
In this role, you'll have the opportunity to:
Build and maintain connections to banks and brokerages in Canada through scraping, custom flows, and direct APIs.
Develop tools that make data acquisition more reliable and easier to scale.
Use AI-assisted systems to reduce manual scraping work and help the team react faster to interface changes.
Design systems that recover quickly when institutions change their login flows or layouts.
Work with product, security, infrastructure, and SRE teams to deliver accurate balances, holdings, and transactions to clients.
Improve our internal automation so adding and repairing institutions becomes faster over time.
Our technologies:
Node.js and MongoDB services for scraping and acquisition
Headless browsers, proxy systems, and session-management tools
Ruby, Java/Kotlin, and Python across the broader platform
AWS Infra
Strong encryption and security practices for sensitive data
Early AI-assisted automation that helps generate, maintain, and repair extraction logic
What you bring:
Experience with data acquisition or financial connectivity platforms (e.g., Plaid-style APIs, Flinks-style screen scraping, SnapTrade-style brokerage linking).
Strong Node.js skills, including asynchronous programming.
Experience building or maintaining scraping systems using headless browsers.
Comfort working in environments where third-party interfaces change often.
Understanding of authentication flows, MFA challenges, cookies, sessions, and rate limits.
Experience parsing complex financial data such as balances, transactions, holdings, and corporate-action adjustments.
Interest in building automation that reduces manual scraping and repair work.
Clear, steady communication with technical and non-technical teams.
Not afraid of support work investigating and debugging broken integrations
Comfort with on-call duties for critical data pipelines.
Nice-to-have's:
Experience designing AI-assisted extraction tools or automated repair systems
Experience working on financial data models, reconciliation, or ledger-like systems
Experience building systems that operate at scale with high variability
Familiarity with institution-level onboarding and connectivity testing
Why Wealthsimple?
🌸 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.
ICYMI
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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