Frontend Development Lead

Iris Software Inc.; Toronto; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Iris Software is seeking a Front End Development Tech Lead in Toronto, Canada, to lead scalable Angular frontends for multinational clients. The role includes end-to-end ownership from design through deployment, mentoring engineers, and driving best practices in code quality, testing, and observability.

Exposure to Ionic, REST APIs, microservices, and cloud services (AWS) is expected, with focus on security and enterprise integration.

Qualifications

• Lead frontend development for scalable Angular applications in a large enterprise context.
• Strong experience with Angular and RESTful APIs; familiarity with hybrid mobile tech (Ionic) is a plus.
• Cloud experience, preferably AWS, with serverless/Kubernetes exposure.
• Knowledge of security, API security, and authentication/authorization mechanisms.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of scalable frontend Angular applications.
• Take end-to-end technical ownership from design to deployment and production support.
• Mentor engineers while remaining an active hands-on contributor.
• Drive best practices across code quality, automated testing, CI/CD, monitoring, and security.

Skills

Angular

Ionic

REST APIs

Microservices

CI/CD

Security

Observability

Reliability

Distributed systems

Event-driven

Mentoring

Hands-on

Tools

AWS

Lambda

API Gateway

SQS/SNS

ECS/EKS

Kubernetes

Job description

Iris Software is hiring a Front End Development Tech Lead for multinational investment banking and financial services corporations. Our client is world-leading financial services companies, provides consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions with a broad range of financial services and products.

Title: Front End Development Tech Lead

Location: Toronto, Canada

• Lead the design and development of scalable frontend Angular. Exposure to Ionic would-be a plus
• Design secure, resilient REST APIs, microservices, and enterprise integrations.
• Take end-to-end technical ownership from solution design and development through deployment, production support, and continuous improvement.
• Lead and mentor engineers while remaining a hands-on technical contributor.
• Drive engineering best practices including code quality, automated testing, CI/CD, monitoring, observability, security, and reliability.
• Design and troubleshoot distributed systems, asynchronous processing, events, and messaging patterns.
• Lead technical problem-solving, root-cause analysis, and resolution of complex production issues.
• Collaborate with architecture, security, product, QA, and business stakeholders to deliver high-quality solutions.

Preferred / Nice to Have

• Experience with AWS or other public cloud platforms.
• Exposure to AWS services such as Lambda, API Gateway, SQS/SNS, ECS/EKS, or other managed services.
• Experience with event-driven architectures and messaging technologies.
• Financial services or other large enterprise application experience.
• Understanding of authentication, authorization, OAuth/OIDC, and API security.
• Exposure to Generative AI or AI-assisted software engineering is an asset, but not a core requirement.

Kind regards,

Sr. Talent Acquisition

Iris Software

US Office: 200 Metroplex Dr. Edison, NJ 08817

Email: [e-mail] | www.irissoftware.com