Senior Java & Spring Boot Architect for Edge & AI Platform

TMS; Toronto; On-site; CAD 140,000 - 190,000; Part time

Job summary

TMS is seeking a Staff/Principal Software Engineer to design and ship complex architectures from the ground up in a hands-on IC role located in Downtown Toronto, ON. The contract position requires strong coding and architectural influence, with focus on edge computing, AI/ML platforms, and AWS-based solutions.

The role emphasizes greenfield development, rapid prototyping, and collaboration with Data Science, Product, Engineering, and partner teams to deliver scalable backend services using Java

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience building production-grade distributed systems.
• Strong Java and Spring Boot expertise.
• Strong system design and architecture experience.
• Proven experience taking greenfield projects from 0 to 1.
• Hands-on implementation experience - strong coder.
• Experience building features supporting ML inference pipelines, data normalization, feature pipelines, model serving, or similar AI/data platforms.
• Strong AWS experience across compute, storage, networking, and IAM.
• Experience with edge computing/CDN execution environments such as Edge Workers, CDN Functions, Lambda@Edge, or equivalent.
• Experience with microservices and event-driven architectures.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and build end-to-end signal flows, including edge detection, ingestion APIs, processing, storage, and downstream routing.
• Architect edge-layer solutions across edge-worker runtimes and CDN-layer compute for token detection, header manipulation, and signal capture with minimal latency impact.
• Build backend services using Java Spring Boot, including APIs, validation/normalization pipelines, data persistence, and platform foundations.
• Define integration patterns for third-party vendors, including identity and trust providers.
• Implement JWT validation, public-key caching, and deterministic signal ingestion.
• Build platform capabilities supporting ML inference, including structured data access layers, feature pipelines, and model-registry integration.
• Make technology decisions around storage, transport reliability, observability, security, and governance on AWS.
• Drive rapid prototyping, demos, iterative architecture refinement, and production implementation.
• Work closely with Data Science, Product, Engineering, and partner teams.

Skills

Java Spring Boot

System design

Distributed systems

Greenfield projects

Hands-on coding

AWS

Edge computing

Microservices

Communication

AI/ML platforms

GitHub Copilot

LLM-powered workflows

Tools

Edge Workers

CDN Functions

Lambda@Edge

GitHub Copilot

LLM-powered workflows

Job description

TMS is seeking a Staff/Principal Software Engineer to design and ship complex architectures from the ground up in a hands-on IC role located in Downtown Toronto, ON. The contract position requires strong coding and architectural influence, with focus on edge computing, AI/ML platforms, and AWS-based solutions.

The role emphasizes greenfield development, rapid prototyping, and collaboration with Data Science, Product, Engineering, and partner teams to deliver scalable backend services using Java