Software Developer, Security Engineering (IAM)

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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 $30 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 Identity and Access Management (IAM) team is a specialized group focused on streamlining identity and access across our environment such that it is simplified, quick, reduces toil and decreases risk. Broadly, the team develops and maintains technology and platforms related to internal identity governance, data governance and secrets management. We create, enable and automate a comprehensive set of solutions and tools that enable the right individuals to access the right resources at the right times for the right reasons.
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:

• Elevate the data & identity governance tech stack in the org
• Improve access requests via automation and seamless experience
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement controls and measures to streamline identity and access
• Create automated data driven decisions for access controls and attestations
• Reduce risk surface by defining applicable security policies and roles
• Build bespoke solutions to enable safe and efficient secrets management

Skills You Bring:

• Experience with some of our key technologies: Ruby on Rails, GraphQL, Typescript, React, React Native and Python
• Experience with Amazon Web Services and familiarity with things like RDS, Aurora, SQS, SNS, S3, Kafka, EKS, Redshift etc.
• Familiarity with authorizations methods like OAuth, OIDC, SAML etc.
• 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
• An inquisitive mindset: you have the desire to learn new skills, the ability to ask questions, and remain open to new ideas and perspectives
• 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

Nice to Have:

• Data security experience and understanding of data exposure risks
• Experience with Okta or other identity platforms
• Exposure to data tools and stores

Why Wealthsimple?🤑 Competitive Salary with top-tier health benefits and life insurance📈 Retirement savings matching plan using Wealthsimple Work🌴 20 vacation days per year and unlimited sick and mental health days📚 Up to $1500 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 1000 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!
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