Senior Java Lead, Money Movement Platform

Interac Corp.; Canada; Hybrid; CAD 145,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Vacation & Wellness days

Benefits coverage

RRSP program

Hybrid work model

Employee assistance program

Parental leave top-up

Charitable donation matching

Job summary

Interac Corp. is seeking an experienced technical leader to drive development of enterprise-scale Money Movement platforms. You will guide architecture, mentor engineers, and deliver secure, scalable payment solutions using Java, Spring Boot, Hibernate, and AWS.)

You will lead API design, service integration, and modernization initiatives within an Agile environment, ensuring high availability and observability across complex systems.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software development experience.
• 3+ years leading technical teams or major development initiatives.
• Proven experience delivering enterprise-scale applications in complex environments.
• Experience working within Agile development teams.
• Expert-level Java development.
• Strong Spring Boot and Spring Framework expertise.
• Strong Hibernate/JPA implementation experience.
• Experience developing RESTful APIs and microservices.
• Experience developing and consuming SOAP/Web Services.
• Knowledge of API versioning, security, and governance practices.
• Oracle Database, PostgreSQL, SQL optimization and performance tuning.
• Data modeling and schema design.
• AWS cloud services.
• CI/CD pipelines.
• Git-based source control.
• Maven/Gradle.
• Docker and containerized deployments.
• Strong stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to influence without formal authority.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to simplify complex technical concepts for business stakeholders.
• Proven mentoring and coaching capabilities.
• Strong ownership and accountability mindset.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for Java-based application development initiatives.
• Lead solution design discussions and ensure alignment with enterprise architecture standards.
• Define and promote software engineering best practices, coding standards, and design patterns.
• Conduct architecture reviews, code reviews, and technical design reviews.
• Mentor developers and foster a culture of engineering excellence and continuous improvement.
• Support technical decision-making and technology roadmap development.
• Design, develop, and maintain enterprise-grade applications using Java Spring Boot, Spring Framework, Hibernate/JPA, REST APIs, SOAP/Web Services.
• Develop reusable frameworks, shared components, and integration services.
• Build and maintain secure and scalable APIs for internal and external consumers.
• Design and implement high-performance database solutions and persistence layers.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex production and application issues.
• Design service-oriented and event-driven solutions.
• Develop API contracts and integration patterns.
• Implement secure authentication and authorization mechanisms.
• Collaborate with enterprise architects to define target-state architectures.
• Integrate with financial institutions, payment networks, and enterprise platforms.
• Participate in agile planning, estimation, and sprint execution.
• Ensure timely delivery of committed features and modernization initiatives.
• Drive automated testing, CI/CD, and deployment best practices.
• Support release planning and production deployments.
• Lead root cause analysis and remediation activities for critical incidents.
• Improve application observability, monitoring, and operational readiness.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Hibernate/JPA

REST APIs

SOAP/Web Services

AWS

CI/CD

Docker

Tools

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Maven/Gradle

Git

Job description

Interac Corp. is seeking an experienced technical leader to drive development of enterprise-scale Money Movement platforms. You will guide architecture, mentor engineers, and deliver secure, scalable payment solutions using Java, Spring Boot, Hibernate, and AWS.)

You will lead API design, service integration, and modernization initiatives within an Agile environment, ensuring high availability and observability across complex systems.