Junior Software Engineer-Global Payments Engineering

Hanzilla; Toronto; On-site; CAD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Dress code relaxed

Access to online courses

Competitive rewards package

Job summary

Scotiabank is seeking a Junior Software Engineer for Global Payments Engineering in Toronto. You will contribute to payments technology, build scalable software, and collaborate across teams to deliver customer value in a fast-paced environment.

This role emphasizes innovation, learning, and participation in production deployments with a strong focus on modern software practices, CI/CD, and cloud technologies.

Qualifications

• Desire for innovation and drive for problem solving, learning mindset and motivation to learn new tools.
• Technical understanding to lead technical discussions, challenge design and strategy.
• Basic understanding of relational and NoSQL databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB).
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs.
• Understanding of CI/CD and version control (Git).
• Interest in cloud platforms such as GCP and Azure.
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) and DevOps tools (Bitbucket, Git, Ansible, Jenkins).
• Familiar with languages, frameworks, and databases (Java/Spring, Node.js/Express.js, Python, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB).
• Leveraging Google based AI tools.

Responsibilities

• Be at the forefront of technology and enable your team to be a highly functioning technology power house that enables transformation.
• Collaborate to estimate and break down work to enable small and frequent releases to production.
• Triaging and problem-solving production incidents to restore services with root-cause analysis.
• Actively participate in knowledge exchange forums and engineering communities of practice.

Skills

RESTful APIs

CI/CD

Git

Cloud platforms (GCP/AWS/Azure)

Docker/Kubernetes

Java/Spring

Node.js/Express.js

Python

SQL/NoSQL databases

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Bitbucket

Git

Jenkins

Ansible

Job description

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Title: Junior Software Engineer-Global Payments Engineering

Requisition ID: 267400

Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high‑performing culture.

Scotiabank continues to be an industry leader forPaymentstechnology and innovation. We have a history of safely leveraging new tools to enable new experiences for our customers, focusing on ensuring we protect their interests and goals. The result of this leads to modernization programs which aim to offer enriched information and transparencies to support the rapidly evolving payments community.

The Role

We are looking for an enthusiastic individual to innovate and collaborate on the value‑driven goals in delivering customer value. You will engage in a fast‑paced and stimulating environment, with opportunities to build new relationships and learn how you can make an impact in the competitive, trillion‑dollar, Payments industry. You will be exposed to a wide range of businesses both internally and externally, then leveraging Scotiabank’s strong technology base, build and develop on strategic, forward‑looking infrastructure.

Is this role right for you?

Day‑to‑Day

• Be at the forefront of technology and enable your team to be a highly functioning technology power house that enables transformation.
• Advanced knowledge in multiple system/application areas of increasing complexity
• Working knowledge of an entire application/system; Engineers software solutions that meet the needs of stakeholders while focusing on continually reducing technical debt
• Can accomplish more complex goals independently
• Identifies and manages risks versus opportunities and articulates impact towards deliverables
• Actively participates in customer discovery and solution discovery sessions
• Participates in merging, integrating, versioning, and promoting code through environments and version control
• Triaging and problem-solving production incidents to restore services with follow up on root cause and restore efforts
• Collaborates to provide estimation and break down of work to enable small and frequent releases to production
• Proactively provide guidance and recommendation for the software design
• Actively participates in knowledge exchange forums (i.e.Engineering Communities of Practice, Industry Forums,Open SourceCommunities, Universities, etc.)
• Consistently demonstrates behaviours aligned with the organization's valued mindsets
• Embrace and initiate change for continuous improvement

Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role?

• Desire for innovation and drive for innovation through problem solving, leveraging resourcefulness as a key skill; have a learning mindset while intrinsically motivated to learning new tools and techniques
• Technical understanding – as a standard Software Engineer there will be expectations that you are able to lead technical discussions, challenge design and strategy
• Basic understanding of relational and NoSQL databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB).
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs
• Understanding of CI/CD and version control (Git)
• Interest in cloud platforms such as GCP and Azure.
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills.
• Eager to learn and grow in a collaborative environment.
• Use of analytics to enable day‑to‑day conversations and decision making
• Good to have experience and/or certifications with Google Cloud, AWS, Azure, or other cloud-based development stacks
• Good to have experience with containerization and orchestration(such as Docker,Kubernetes) and DevOps tools(such as Bitbucket, Git, Ansible, Jenkins)
• Familiar with languages, frameworks, and databases(such as Java/Spring, Node.js/Express.js, Python, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, DB2)
• Leveraging Google based AI tools

What's in it for you?

• Inclusive and collaborative working environment that encourages creativity, curiosity, and celebrates success
• You’ll work with and learn from diverse industry leaders, who have hailed from top technology companies around the world
• We hire you for your talent — not just a job — so you can grow with us. We’ll equip you for success not only in your role, but also in your career as a whole
• Dress codes don't apply here: being comfortable and performance does
• Access to thousands of online and in-person courses so you can hone your current skills, or learn new ones
• A competitive rewards package that includes a base salary, a performance bonus, company matching programs on pension and profit sharing, paid vacation, personal & sick days, medical, vision, and dental and much more

Location(s): Canada : Ontario : Toronto

Scotiabank is a leading bank in the Americas. Guided by our purpose: “for every future”, we help our customers, their families and their communities achieve success through a broad range of advice, products and services, including personal and commercial banking, wealth management and private banking, corporate and investment banking, and capital markets.

At Scotiabank, we value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to the Bank, and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. If you require accommodation (including, but not limited to, an accessible interview site, alternate format documents, ASL Interpreter, or Assistive Technology) during the recruitment and selection process, please let our Recruitment team know. If you require technical assistance, please click here .