Senior Java Spring Boot Engineer - Guidewire (Remote)

Apptoza Inc.; Toronto; Remote; CAD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Apptoza Inc. is seeking a Java Spring Boot with Guidewire capable SRE for a full-time role in Toronto with remote flexibility. You will automate toil, respond to incidents, define SLOs/SLAs, and ensure observability across systems.

You will work with developers to build reliable architectures and participate in post-incident reviews. The role emphasizes collaboration with engineers, testers, analysts, and stakeholders to improve system stability and scalability while maintaining high-quality

Qualifications

• Proficient in Java or an object-oriented language.
• Experience with REST APIs, HTTP, JSON, and API design principles.
• Familiarity with Spring Boot or modern backend frameworks.
• Experience writing automated unit tests and debugging.
• Working knowledge of Git and PR-based workflows.
• Ability to read technical docs and investigate unfamiliar code.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Willingness to collaborate with developers, testers, analysts and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Automation and toil reduction through code and tooling.
• Incident response, on-call rotations, troubleshooting and restoration.
• SLOs/SLAs and error budgets management.
• Monitoring, observability setup using Prometheus, Grafana, PagerDuty.
• Post-incident reviews and root-cause analysis.
• Capacity planning based on traffic and usage trends.
• Cross-team collaboration to design resilient architectures.

Skills

Java

REST APIs

Spring Boot

Automated testing

Git

Code reading

Communication

Collaborating with teams

Job description

Apptoza Inc. is seeking a Java Spring Boot with Guidewire capable SRE for a full-time role in Toronto with remote flexibility. You will automate toil, respond to incidents, define SLOs/SLAs, and ensure observability across systems.

You will work with developers to build reliable architectures and participate in post-incident reviews. The role emphasizes collaboration with engineers, testers, analysts, and stakeholders to improve system stability and scalability while maintaining high-quality