ABOUT COMMON WEALTH

Common Wealth is Canada’s fastest-growing group retirement provider, offering an award-winning digital platform that helps Canadians plan, save, and build reliable retirement income. We are driven by our mission to help all Canadians achieve financial security in retirement. In 2024, we doubled our client base and now serve employers and members nationwide.

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are looking for an experienced Senior Back End Engineer to join Common Wealth’s engineering team. You will play a key role in building and scaling the technology that powers our retirement platform to help us drive toward a future where every Canadian can achieve financial security in retirement. Experience in fintech is a strong plus.
In this role, the focus will be on Back End (with Java/Kotlin, PostgreSQL, AWS) to develop robust, scalable back-end systems, if you are comfortable and experienced as Full Stack (with React/TS Front End), even better! We value engineers who can move fluidly across the stack and collaborate closely with frontend, product, and design teams.

WHAT YOU WILL DO:

• Write, maintain and deliver code that deliver business objectives. You build product with a strong understanding of both customer and business needs. You will think critically about data modeling, service architecture, and long-term maintainability. You’ll balance short-term speed with thoughtful investment in areas that are core to the platform.
• Apply testing frameworks. all developers are responsible for the quality of the product, and to that end are responsible for writing their own unit and integration tests. You will help to continuously improve our test quality to maintain the stability of our platform.
• Embrace a DevOps philosophy. Our infrastructure is fully cloud-based and managed using infrastructure-as-code tools (CDK, CloudFormation). You are comfortable working with various AWS tools & offerings. Engineers are expected to understand how their code operates in production and to consider cost, scalability, monitoring, and security when building new infrastructure.
• Project delivery. Work within a talented cross-functional team, collaborating closely with product and design. You will help shape technical requirements, brainstorm solutions, break down deliverables into milestones, and drive timelines to completion.
• Technical Ownership: Provide technical guidance through code reviews and mentorship. You’ll help identify gaps, address issues proactively, and lead continuous improvements across the engineering team.