Senior Backend Developer

Software Backend Developer – Retail Credit Cloud Integration Team

We are seeking a Software Backend Developer to work with the Retail Credit Cloud Integration team. Our work involves writing Java Spring Boot microservices in an agile environment and deploying them to Open Shift Kubernetes using a fully automated CI/CD Dev Ops pipeline.

As a middleware team, we collaborate closely with architects, business analysts, and business representatives to simplify complex business processes and provide easy-to-use, reusable APIs for our business partners. We continually seek opportunities to improve how we work, and we value ideas and perspectives that help drive innovation.

• Design, code, and document services in small to large projects.
• Integrate different technologies at various levels, leveraging REST and JDBC integrations along with event/messaging technologies (JMS /MQ / Kafka).
• Use Artificial Intelligence in day‑to‑day SDLC work and AI‑centric product development.
• Write and maintain unit, system, and functional tests with Junit, Mockito, and Cucumber.
• Assist the QA team with integration testing, performance testing and penetration testing.
• Assist the Production Support team with troubleshooting issues.
• Analyze business and system needs, exploring alternative options to recommend efficient designs and technology solutions, taking into account component reusability, data sharing and security.
• Contribute to improving how we work as a team.

• 5+ years of experience in a software development role with a proven track record of delivering maintainable, quality solutions.
• Experience with modern Java development with the Spring framework.
• Knowledge of correlated technologies such as HTTP, REST, XML, JSON, JDBC, MS SQL, SQL, OAuth, MTLS and others.
• Experience with software development best practices such as TDD/BDD, Dev Ops, code reviews, design patterns, CI/CD, SRE.

• Experience building software for the financial services industry – banking, insurance or investments.
• Experience with build and deployment technologies (Jenkins, Urban Code Deploy, Maven)
• Knowledge of other correlated technologies such as Kafka, JMS, Graph
  
  QL, Ansible, Camunda, ELK Stack (Elastic Search / Logstash / Kibana).
• Experience with Cloud platforms and technologies (Open Shift, Kubernetes, S3 Object Storage).

• Agile Methodology
• Agile Requirements
• Amazon S3
• Apache Kafka
• IBM Web Sphere MQ
• IT Requirements
• Java (Programming Language)
• Kubernetes
• Maven
• Microservices Architecture
• Microsoft SQL Server
• Pivotal Cloud Foundry
• Red Hat Open Shift
• RESTful API Design
• Software Architectures
• Solution Architecture
• Spring Boot
• Spring Framework
• Spring JMS

• A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable.
• Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities.
• Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high‑performing team.
• Help drive change and be a technology leader.

Location:

Waterpark Place, 88 Queens Quay W, Toronto, Canada.

Employment Type:

Full time.

Pay Type:

Salaried.

Work hours:

37.5 per week. Platform:
Technology and Operations. Job Type: Regular.