Senior Software Engineer

Equifax, Inc.; Toronto; On-site; CAD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Equifax, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer with hands-on development skills to join a globally distributed team. You will design, build, and operate high-scale Java applications, leveraging cloud platforms and microservices with CI/CD pipelines.

The role requires collaboration across teams to align with Data Fabric and internal toolsets. You will participate in roadmaps, drive architectural decisions, and mentor peers while triaging issues and delivering on critical priorities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of software engineering in Java for enterprise apps.
• 5+ years writing, debugging, and troubleshooting code.
• 2+ years cloud experience (GCP/AWS/Azure).
• 2+ years designing microservices with Java, SpringBoot, GCP SDKs, Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and operate high-scale applications across the full engineering stack.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve software.
• Apply modern software practices: serverless, microservices, CI/CD, IaC.
• Collaborate across teams to integrate with Data Fabric and CSA Toolset.
• Participate in technology roadmap and architecture discussions.
• Work in a globally distributed engineering team.
• Triange issues and debug/resolve impact on operations and quality.
• Manage sole project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
• Research and develop software to extend Equifax Solutions.
• Address scalability in data access and processing.

Skills

Java ecosystem

Cloud platforms

Microservices design

CI/CD pipelines

Data processing / big data

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Jenkins CI/CD

Kubernetes (GKE)

Terraform

Helm Charts

GCP SDKs

Job description

Synopsis of the Role

Equifax is seeking creative, high-energy and driven Senior Software Engineer with hands-on development skills to work on a variety of meaningful projects. Our software engineering positions provide you the opportunity to join a team of talented engineers working with leading-edge technology. You are ideal for this position if you are a forward-thinking, committed, and enthusiastic software engineer who is passionate about technology.

What you’ll do

• Design, develop, and operate high scale applications across the full engineering stack

• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve software.

• Apply modern software development practices (serverless computing, microservices architecture, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, etc.)

• Work across teams to integrate our systems with existing internal systems, Data Fabric, CSA Toolset.

• Participate in technology roadmap and architecture discussions to turn business requirements and vision into reality.

• Participate in a tight-knit, globally distributed engineering team.

• Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on network, or service operations and quality.

• Manage sole project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.

• Research, create, and develop software applications to extend and improve on Equifax Solutions

• Collaborate on scalability issues involving access to data and information.

• Actively participate in Sprint planning, Sprint Retrospectives, and other team activity

What experience you need

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, specializes heavily in the Java ecosystem for enterprise applications

• 5+ years experience writing, debugging, and troubleshooting code

• 2+ years experience with Cloud technology: GCP, AWS, or Azure

• 2+ years experience designing and developing microservices using Java, SpringBoot, GCP SDKs, GKE/Kubernetes

• 5+ years experience deploying and releasing software using Jenkins CI/CD pipelines, understand infrastructure-as-code concepts, Helm Charts, and Terraform constructs

What could set you apart

• Self-starter that identifies/responds to priority shifts with minimal supervision.

• Experience in using Copilot, hands-on Agentic AI

• Experience designing and developing big data processing solutions using Dataflow/Apache Beam, Bigtable, BigQuery, PubSub, GCS, Composer/Airflow

This is an existing position.