Senior Developer (1 year Term Contract)

Scotiabank; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dynamic Senior Developer to enhance their API platform for wealth management. This role offers an exciting opportunity to work in a collaborative environment, leading technical decisions and developing scalable solutions using Java and cloud technologies. As part of a purpose-driven team, you will contribute to creating world-class digital experiences for clients, while enjoying a culture that values diversity, equity, and inclusion. If you're ready to make an impact and thrive in an evolving landscape, this position is perfect for you.

Benefits

Flexible vacation

Tuition assistance

Competitive rewards program

Community engagement opportunities

Free tea & coffee

Universal washrooms

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in web service development with Java 8+.
• Hands-on experience in Cloud MicroService and MicroApp development.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical decision-making for scrum teams and collaborate with architects.
• Design and develop microservices based on Cloud solutions.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Microservices

Cloud Solutions (Azure, GCP)

RESTful Services

SQL

Application Monitoring (Dynatrace, Splunk)

Domain-Driven Design

Continuous Integration

Tools

Azure

GCP

JAX-WS

JAX-RS

Swagger/OAS

Log4j

JSON

XML

SOAP

Job description

Title: Senior Developer (1 year Term Contract)

Requisition ID: 218780

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

The Global Wealth Engineering client technology team is transforming the digital experience for its clients. The team partners and works closely with the Scotia Digital team to bring world-class digital experiences for all Scotia Wealth Management channels. The team plays a key role to help investors manage their investments and reach their financial goals.

The Global Wealth Engineering Technology Team is looking for an energetic and results-oriented Senior Developer to join our team to help build our API platform for our wealth customers. We’re looking to fill our team with influencers, makers, creators, and leaders who are flexible, curious, adventurous, versatile, and responsive; and who are ready to roll up their sleeves in a collaborative and productive environment to get things done.

Is this role right for you?

• Lead technical decisioning for the scrum teams, collaborating with solutions architects and other technical leads.
• Develop coding standards and testing approaches.
• Guide your team through technical issues and challenges.
• Delegate work and assignments to team members.
• Collaborate with delivery lead to plan milestones, successfully execute software delivery, and escalate issues as needed.
• Design and develop microservices based on Cloud solutions, such as Microsoft Azure, Google GCP.
• Analyze highly complex business requirements; generate technical specifications to design or redesign complex software components and applications.
• Leverage industry best practices to design, test, implement and support a solution.
• Assure quality security and compliance requirements are met for supported area.
• Be flexible and thrive in an evolving environment.
• Working experience in performance analysis and tuning.
• Provides production support for applications maintained.

Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role? We’d love to work with you if you have:

Must Have Skills:

• Experience building scalable, enterprise-level technology stacks with Java but ideally with a broad set of tools.
• 5+ years web service development with Java 8+ (minimum 2 years) or above, JAX-WS, JAX-RS, Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring Data and Swagger/OAS (Open API Specification).
• 2+ years working with cloud-based microservices (Azure, PCF or GCP).
• 5+ years’ experience with Java Frameworks: Spring, JUnit, Log4j.
• 5+ years’ experience with JSON/RESTful, XML, and SOAP services.
• 5+ years database development stored procedures with SQL, AzureSQL, Sybase OR MS SQL.
• Hands-on experience in Cloud MicroService and MicroApp development.
• Experience in application monitoring software, including Dynatrace, Splunk or their equivalent tools.
• Practical experience designing and developing microservices using modern practices/techniques including Domain-Driven Design, event-driven architectures, reactive programming, and distributed caching.

Nice-To-Have Skills:

• Experience with Continuous Development or Continuous Integration is a plus.
• Knowledge of distributed system design patterns like distributed configuration, service discovery, routing, service-to-service calls, circuit breakers.
• Knowledge of Apache/Confluence Kafka, Kafka topics, brokers, stream processing, and event streaming platforms.
• Experience in batch process development/support using shell script in Unix/Linux.

What's in it for you?

• Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Allyship - We strive to create an inclusive culture where every employee is empowered to reach their fullest potential, respected for who they are, and are embraced through bias-free practices and inclusive values across Scotiabank.
• Accessibility and Workplace Accommodations - 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.
• Upskilling through online courses, cross-functional development opportunities, and tuition assistance.
• Competitive Rewards program including bonus, flexible vacation, personal, sick days and benefits will start on day one.
• Dynamic Ecosystem - Free tea & coffee, universal washrooms, and lots of space for team collaboration.
• Community Engagement - No matter where you choose to work from; we offer opportunities for community engagement & belonging with our various programs such as hackathons, contests, cooking with friends, Humans of Digital and much more!

Working location condition: Hybrid

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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 during the recruitment and selection process, please let our Recruitment team know.