RQ11719 - Software Developer - Senior

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

Job summary

Maarut is seeking a senior Java/Azure lead in Canada (Toronto area) to design, build, and maintain complex enterprise applications. You will drive UI, API, services, and data components, deploy cloud-based microservices, and ensure secure, scalable solutions.

Share technical direction, code reviews, and mentorship within cross-functional teams. This role emphasizes delivery, quality, and continuous modernization.

Qualifications

• Must have experience leading teams and managing development teams.
• Experience mentoring developers and providing technical guidance within multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience developing complex enterprise or public-facing applications.
• Experience implementing user interfaces, APIs, services, integrations, and database components.
• Experience developing and deploying applications in cloud-based environments.
• Experience with APIs, integration patterns, automated deployment, and configuration management.
• Experience developing automated tests for user interfaces, APIs, and databases.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, configure, test, and maintain Java application components.
• Build and maintain cloud-based microservices in Microsoft Azure, including interfaces, APIs, integrations, data-access components, and automated tests.
• Participate in solution design and technical planning.
• Review code and provide practical feedback to development team members.
• Diagnose and resolve defects, performance issues, security concerns, and integration failures.
• Support continuous integration and deployment activities.
• Prepare and maintain technical documentation.
• Estimate development work and contribute to sprint and release planning.
• Support test teams, business acceptance testing, deployment, and implementation.
• Identify technical risks, dependencies, and opportunities for improvement.

Skills

Team leadership

Java

Azure

API development

CI/CD pipelines

Testing automation

Security best practices

Code reviews

Performance optimization

Cloud architectures

Git

Azure DevOps

Maven/Gradle

Tools

Azure DevOps

Git

Maven/Gradle

Job description

• Develops, configures, integrates, tests, deploys, and maintains complex application components in accordance with approved architecture, technical designs, security requirements, and coding standards. Provides technical leadership and supports the quality, reliability, performance, and maintainability of the solution.
  

Requirements

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:

Must Haves:

• Must have experience leading teams and managing development teams.
  
• Demonstrated experience providing team and solution leadership, including guiding technical direction, coordinating development activities, and ensuring alignment with approved architecture and delivery objectives.
  
• Experience mentoring developers and providing technical guidance within multidisciplinary teams.
  
• Experience developing complex enterprise or public-facing applications.
  
• Experience implementing user interfaces, APIs, services, integrations, and database components.
  
• Experience developing and deploying applications in cloud-based environments.
  
• Experience with APIs, integration patterns, automated deployment, and configuration management.
  
• Experience developing automated tests for user interfaces, APIs, and databases.
  

Nice to have:

• Prior OPS or public sector exp.
  

Skill Set Requirements:

Experience:

• Experience developing and maintaining complex enterprise applications using Java.
  
• Experience translating technical specifications, user stories, and acceptance criteria into working software.
  
• Experience developing user interfaces, APIs, integration services, business logic, and database components.
  
• Experience building automated unit, integration, API, database, and user-interface tests.
  
• Experience developing and deploying cloud-based microservice architecture solutions in Microsoft Azure, including deployment pipelines, configuration management, and application monitoring.
  
• Experience reviewing code and enforcing development, security, documentation, and testing standards.
  
• Experience troubleshooting complex defects and resolving performance, reliability, and integration issues.
  
• Experience implementing secure coding practices and addressing identified vulnerabilities.
  
• Experience supporting deployments, production-readiness activities, and post-implementation stabilization.
  
• Demonstrated experience providing team and solution leadership, including guiding technical direction, coordinating development activities, and ensuring alignment with approved architecture and delivery objectives.
  
• Experience mentoring developers and providing technical guidance within multidisciplinary teams.
  

General Skills / Duties:

• Design, develop, configure, test, and maintain Java application components.
  
• Build and maintain cloud-based microservices in Microsoft Azure, including interfaces, APIs, integrations, data-access components, and automated tests.
  
• Participate in solution design and technical planning.
  
• Review code and provide practical feedback to development team members.
  
• Diagnose and resolve defects, performance issues, security concerns, and integration failures.
  
• Support continuous integration and deployment activities.
  
• Prepare and maintain technical documentation.
  
• Estimate development work and contribute to sprint and release planning.
  
• Support test teams, business acceptance testing, deployment, and implementation.
  
• Identify technical risks, dependencies, and opportunities for improvement.
  

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:

Software Development Experience:

• Experience developing complex enterprise or public-facing applications.
  
• Experience implementing user interfaces, APIs, services, integrations, and database components.
  
• Experience applying object-oriented, structured, and Agile development methodologies.
  

Cloud, Integration, and Deployment:

• Experience developing and deploying applications in cloud-based environments.
  
• Experience with APIs, integration patterns, automated deployment, and configuration management.
  
• Experience supporting application monitoring and operational readiness.
  

Testing, Security, and Quality:

• Experience developing automated tests for user interfaces, APIs, and databases.
  
• Experience applying secure coding and code-quality practices.
  
• Experience troubleshooting defects and improving application performance and maintainability.
  

Communication and Technical Leadership:

• Experience providing technical guidance and conducting code reviews.
  
• Strong analytical, documentation, and problem-solving skills.
  
• Ability to communicate technical issues and recommendations clearly.