JOB DESCRIPTION

Location: Hybrid (Downtown, Toronto)

Duration: 12 months

Our client, a leading financial institution in Downtown Toronto, is looking for a  Lead Full Stack Developer to develop software solutions by studying information needs, conferring with stakeholders and users; studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes, and investigating problem areas. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work with one of the Top 5 Banks in Canada.

Typical Day in role:

• Determine operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development, and proposed solutions.
• Document and demonstrate solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments, and clear code.
• Create new services using the latest technologies, which will shape the future for the bank’s GAM Digital Team.
• Collaborate with other developers on the team to model and design new API interfaces
• Develop and support highly scalable, high-performance APIs and frontend digital experience.
• Mentor and inspire the team of developers to deliver their best performance
• Ensure high code quality through automated unit and functional testing
• Automate processes within the development pipeline; identify opportunities for efficiency gains and reducing time-to-market, and enabling continuous delivery
• Design and develop code structures to promote reusability across many applications
• Work within a talented team comprised of technical, product, and business team members to deliver exceptional products.
• Stay open-minded and look beyond your stack to solve complex problems
• Seek out knowledge about new technologies and how they can be used to solve current and foreseeable challenges
• Excellent communication, including the ability to distill technical details into human terms.

Must-Have Skills:

• +10 years of experience with Java 8+ and Spring Framework (Spring Boot)
• +4 years of experience with Node.js, Angular experience
• +3 years of proficient experience in SASS, Java & TypeScript languages
• +3 Strong experience in UI frameworks like Bootstrap
• +3 Web technologies such as HTML, HTTP & CSS
• +2 years experience developing distributed cloud applications (Pivotal Cloud Foundry, OpenShift, Azura, Docker)
• +3 years experience developing distributed cloud applications (Pivotal Cloud Foundry, OpenShift, Azura, Docker)
• +5 Relational Database and data modeling experience using SQL Server
• +5 Years of lead Experience leading distributed development teams
• Hands-on experience designing, developing, testing, and troubleshooting RESTful API and interface specifications (Swagger)
• Experience working with DevOps pipelines (Git, Maven, Jenkins), continuous integration/delivery, automated testing (unit, functional, performance)
• Experience working within professional software engineering practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source code management, build processes and testing.
• Understanding of agile mythologies and project management using JIRA
• UML and Design patterns

Nice-To-Have Skills:

• Capital Markets and Wealth Management industry experience
• Understanding of Web FE development frameworks and libraries such as Angular and React
• Experience working with Redis, Non-relational databases, and other Caching technologies
• Experience in TDD methodologies
• Working experience in one or more of:
•  Algorithm design and optimization
• Large-scale systems
• Parallel or distributed systems
• RDBMS and/or modern scale-out repositories (SQL Server Redis)
• Micro-service design and implementation (load balancing, discovery, resiliency)
• OCP, Azure, PCF, Apigee
• Experience with code merging and branching methodologies using Git and code release process.
• Experience supporting production-level software (SRE, Dynatrace).
• Ability to simplify complex problems and communicate them in plain language

Soft Skills Required:

• Leaders who help your development through coaching and managing opportunities
• Ability to make a difference and lasting impact
• Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team
• A world-class training program in financial services
• Flexible work/life balance options
• Opportunities to do challenging work

Education:

• B.S. degree in Computer Science or related technical field (e.g. EE, physics or mathematics), or equivalent practical experience.

Finance professional is committed to creating an inclusive environment where all team members and clients feel like they belong. We seek applicants with a wide range of abilities and we provide an accessible candidate experience. We advocate for you and welcome anyone regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, physical or mental disability, or age.