Common Wealth exists to make retirement security accessible to all Canadians. As Canada’s fastest-growing group retirement provider, we serve over 1,700 employers across the country and are helping tens of thousands of Canadians build long-term financial security. Our award-winning retirement technology and services platform makes it easy for employers of all sizes to offer competitive retirement perks, empowers members to build wealth with confidence, and equips advisors with tools to better serve their clients.

We work closely with a rapidly expanding network of advisors, for whom we strive to be a true partner in powering the growth of their business.

Junior Back End Engineer You will play a key role in contributing to 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. This role focuses on the back end - building robust, scalable systems with Java/Kotlin, PostgreSQL, and AWS. If you're also comfortable working full stack (React/TypeScript on the front end), even better.

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 . Engineers are expected to understand how their code runs in production and to consider cost, scalability, monitoring, and security - you'll learn our infrastructure‑as‑code setup and grow into building within it.





Project delivery. You will help shape technical requirements, brainstorm solutions, break down deliverables into milestones, and drive timelines to completion.

You may not have touched our exact frameworks or tooling and that's fine - we care more that you have a solid foundation and are able to learn fast than that you arrive knowing ours.

Foundation as back end engineer. You have previous experience through co‑op / internship or 1+ year full time experience and you’ve worked on production systems in Java Kotlin , using relational databases like PostgreSQL .

You think about solutions beyond a single layer — data modeling, backend logic, and how it all integrates with the frontend. You've had some hands‑on exposure to cloud infrastructure (AWS a plus), and bonus points if you're comfortable working across the stack with React and TypeScript.

Comfortable with AI‑assisted coding tools. You leverage AI tools as part of your normal workflow and understand their strengths and limitations. You review, test, and take ownership of AI‑generated output.

You stay on top of emerging tools that enhance your technical foundation.

Infrastructure on AWS: IaC with CDK, Docker, ECS, Fargate, RDS Aurora / PostgreSQL, S3, DynamoDB, CloudFront, Lambda@Edge, Cognito, GuardDuty In addition to a competitive salary of $80,000 - 100,000, you will receive health and dental benefits, life insurance, a Health Spending Account, a 5% employer match into one of our award‑winning group retirement plans, and four weeks of vacation. Our growing team combines deep expertise in the key disciplines necessary to help our customers achieve retirement success.

Join a mission‑driven company transforming retirement in Canada

Medical, dental and vision benefits

Health Spending Account

5% employer match into our group retirement plan

Home Office Stipend

Flex Holiday and Summer Friday Program

📌 Junior Engineering (Vancouver)
🏢 Common Wealth Retirement
📍 Vancouver