Automation & Integration Lead: AWS, Node.js/Python | Hybrid

Bally; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 95,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Bally is seeking a Senior Software Developer to own automation and integration initiatives in a hybrid Toronto role. You will shape architectural standards, partner with business teams, and deliver AWS-based automation services using Node.js and Python.

Responsibilities include designing scalable solutions, collaborating with DevOps, ensuring security and compliance, and mentoring engineers to raise technical quality across the portfolio.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering experience delivering production systems.
• Proven experience building automation, workflows, and system integrations end to end.
• Experience in Casino Gaming, Online Gaming, Sports Betting, or another regulated industry is preferred but not required.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, working directly with business and non-technical teams.
• Hands-on expertise in Node.js and/or Python, APIs, and event-driven architecture.
• AWS experience, including Lambda, Step Functions, EventBridge, SQS/SNS, S3, API Gateway, and IAM.
• System design skills with a focus on scalability, reliability, and failure handling.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, and third-party integrations.
• Excellent understanding of data, observability, security, privacy, and PII.
• Familiarity with workflow orchestration and AI/LLM-powered automation is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical direction of the automation portfolio, including architecture, standards, patterns, and technology choices.
• Partner with business teams to identify automation opportunities, map processes, and translate them into technical designs.
• Design and build AWS automation services and workflows using Node.js and/or Python, including event-driven pipelines, scheduled jobs, multi-step workflows, and system integrations.
• Create solution designs covering architecture, data flows, failure and retry strategies, and rollback plans.
• Partner with DevOps on deployment, infrastructure as code, environments, secrets, cost control, and production readiness.
• Champion engineering standards across code quality, testing, observability, error handling, and documentation.
• Build monitoring and alerting from day one and lead incident response and root cause analysis.
• Lead and mentor engineers, reviewing designs, removing blockers, and raising the technical bar.
• Ensure solutions meet security, privacy, audit, and compliance requirements, including PII handling and access control.
• Maintain runbooks and handover documentation.

Skills

Node.js

Python

AWS

APIs

Event-driven architecture

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Security & privacy

PII handling

Observability

Tools

AWS Lambda

Step Functions

EventBridge

S3

IAM

API Gateway

Job description

Bally is seeking a Senior Software Developer to own automation and integration initiatives in a hybrid Toronto role. You will shape architectural standards, partner with business teams, and deliver AWS-based automation services using Node.js and Python.

Responsibilities include designing scalable solutions, collaborating with DevOps, ensuring security and compliance, and mentoring engineers to raise technical quality across the portfolio.