Senior Project Manager - ICI (CB

Who we are.

, we’re on a mission to help transform small business dreams into vibrant communities. As a fast-paced fintech startup, we provide financial institutions with the tools to better understand and serve small businesses. Our values of Caring, Innovative, and Trustworthy guide everything we do, from our products to our culture.

We’re growing quickly, and our Engineering team builds much of the innovation at the heart of JUDI.AI. If you’re looking to apply your skills to impactful real-world problems while helping shape the future of small business lending, we’d love to meet you.

We are looking for a hands-on, forward thinking software developer. We offer a hybrid work policy based in the Vancouver area, working from our office in the downtown core. While you do not need to have a banking or fintech background, having an interest in banking and finance would be great. You are the kind of person who takes the time to listen, to build relationships and to get stuff done.

In this role you'll shape and implement the technical design of JUDI's platform — designing service APIs, building and refactoring production code across backend and frontend, reviewing architecture-impacting changes, and partnering with product teams to turn ambiguous requirements into practical technical designs.

Technical

• Design clear, consistent REST APIs and service contracts using OpenAPI-first thinking;
• Review API contracts, database schema changes, configuration, dependencies, and cross-service design decisions;
• Build and refactor production code across backend services, frontend applications, and shared platform workflows;
• Help evolve a service-based architecture with loose coupling, service autonomy, statelessness, composability, and clear data ownership;
• Partner with product teams to turn ambiguous requirements into practical technical designs;
• Work comfortably in a modern cloud-based infrastructure: identity, observability, CI/CD, deployments, secrets, networking, reliability, and operational debugging;
• Document design decisions, implementation guidance, migration plans, and engineering standards clearly enough for other teams to follow;
• Use AI coding agents, AI code review, log investigation tools, and prompt-driven workflows as part of daily engineering work.

• Strengthen test strategy around API behavior, integration points, regression safety, and maintainable test data;
• Own quality through rigorous, high-signal code review that surfaces architecture risks, hidden coupling, weak tests, security concerns, and unclear contracts.

• Strong API design judgment: REST semantics and resource modeling;
• Strong code design: readable abstractions, clear boundaries, testable services, safe refactoring, and pragmatic tradeoff decisions;
• Strong application security fundamentals: authentication, authorization, OAuth/OIDC/JWT flows, OWASP Top 10, secure secret handling, safe logging, CI risks, least privilege, and protection of sensitive customer data;
• AI fluency: comfortable using AI agents for implementation, review, debugging, documentation, test generation, codebase exploration, and AI skill creation while still applying senior engineering judgment;
• Ability to reason across distributed systems, service contracts, data ownership, authentication, deployment, and operational behavior;
• High ownership in code review: able to spot architecture risks, hidden coupling, weak tests, security concerns, and unclear contracts;
• Strong written communication for technical docs, PR explanations, decision records, and cross-team guidance.

• Third-party platform integrations such as Auth0, Docu Sign, Flinks, Yodlee, Equifax, Experian, or similar external services;
• Cloud infrastructure, containerized services, infrastructure as code, secrets management, observability, and production support;
• CI/CD best practices: automated testing, dependency scanning, security scanning, branch protection, release automation, and repeatable deployment workflows;
• Experience modernizing legacy services while keeping production behavior stable.

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