Senior AI Software Developer
Wealthsimple
Software Engineering, Data Science
Remote
Posted on Dec 12, 2025
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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 $100 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 AI Product Foundations Team
The AI Product Foundations team is focused on enabling the delivery of innovative products built on top of foundational models.
In this role, you'll help develop the building blocks that enables teams to deliver reliable, observable, and cost-effective AI capabilities. You'll work at the intersection of engineering and product, bridging the gap between foundation ML/LLM work and bringing functional AI-powered features to life.
In this role you’ll have the opportunity to:
- Help establish the technical vision for our AI product infrastructure
- Develop frameworks that make LLM integration seamless and reliable; building APIs and SDKs that allow LLMs to interface with Wealthsimple data and functionality.
- Create tools that enhance how we evaluate and monitor AI performance
- Guide strategic decisions on internal development versus external solutions
- Build new AI-powered product capabilities from 0 → 1; collaborating directly with product teams to bring AI features to life
- Share your expertise in LLM application development across the organization
- Shape how millions of people interact with their finances through AI
What you’ll bring:
- A keen product sense and strong data intuition
- Experience developing production applications using foundational models
- Ability to design and implement reliable, observable systems with appropriate guardrails
- Strong technical skills in software engineering and system design
- Proficiency with Python, Javascript, Ruby, or other similar languages
- An adeptness at communicating technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Comfort navigating ambiguity in a rapidly evolving technical landscape
- You have a bias to action and favour experimentation over theorizing
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)
💖 Allocated number of Wellness Days that can be scheduled over the course of 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.