AI-Driven Microservices & API Architect

Insight Global; Toronto; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Insight Global seeks a senior software architect to design scalable enterprise applications using Java/Spring Boot microservices. You will lead service-to-service communication, API-first patterns, and cloud-native deployment, while ensuring security, observability, and performance.

You will mentor developers, align with architecture and product teams, and explore AI integration into APIs and workflows. Strong backend and front-end architecture experience, plus banking/financial domain

Qualifications

• Proven experience in Java/Spring Boot architecture and microservices design.
• Ability to design end-to-end solutions across front end, APIs, microservices and integrations.
• Experience with REST APIs, Kafka/event-driven architecture and API security.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable enterprise applications across back-end services, APIs, integrations, and front-end layers.
• Lead the design of Java/Spring Boot microservices and service-to-service communication.
• Define front-end architecture, application structure, integration patterns, and interaction with back-end APIs.
• Establish API-first design principles and reusable integration patterns.
• Design event-driven solutions using Kafka or similar messaging technologies.
• Make architectural decisions around scalability, resiliency, security, performance, and maintainability.
• Provide technical direction to developers and review solution designs.
• Work with architecture, engineering, product, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions.
• Identify where AI capabilities can be integrated into applications, APIs, and business workflows.
• Design solutions that support containerized and cloud-native deployment models.
• Incorporate authentication, authorization, API security, observability, logging, monitoring, and automated testing into application designs.
• Support CI/CD and modern software engineering practices.

Skills

Java / Spring Boot

Microservices design

API / REST design

Docker / Kubernetes

CI/CD

Cloud-native

Front-end architecture

AI / Generative AI integration

Security & observability

Technical leadership

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Cloud platforms

Job description

Insight Global seeks a senior software architect to design scalable enterprise applications using Java/Spring Boot microservices. You will lead service-to-service communication, API-first patterns, and cloud-native deployment, while ensuring security, observability, and performance.

You will mentor developers, align with architecture and product teams, and explore AI integration into APIs and workflows. Strong backend and front-end architecture experience, plus banking/financial domain