Senior Software Engineer (1880)

Direct IT Recruiting Inc.; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 123,984 - 137,760; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Contract duration 5 months

Job summary

Direct IT Recruiting Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Developer for a hybrid 5-month contract in Toronto. The role involves analyzing, designing, developing, and supporting software solutions that drive business objectives.

You will lead technical delivery, ensure secure and scalable code, and collaborate across agile teams to translate requirements into concrete designs and delivery plans.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software development experience, including senior/lead capacity.
• Strong understanding of software engineering concepts, design patterns, secure coding, testing strategies, and modern delivery practices.
• Hands‑on experience with cloud-native and DevSecOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, Git-based workflows, automated testing, and release automation.
• Proficiency using AI-assisted coding tools to improve productivity and code quality.
• Experience with cloud and container technologies such as Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, and infrastructure as code.
• Ability to communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders and work independently in an agile team environment.
• Experience with cloud-deployed enterprise applications, microservices, event-driven architecture, APIs, and data platform integrations.
• Experience with tools and platforms such as GitHub, Jenkins, Jira, Confluence, SonarQube, Terraform, Azure, Snowflake, Oracle, SQL Server, React, or Angular.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and support high-quality software solutions using modern technology and enterprise standards.
• Translate business requirements into technical designs, plans, acceptance criteria, and delivery estimates.
• Develop secure, scalable, maintainable code across APIs, integrations, automation, batch processing, and data workloads.
• Collaborate with architects, platform teams, security partners, and business stakeholders to validate designs.
• Lead or contribute to implementation, testing, release, and production support activities.
• Maintain currency in technology trends and continuously improve engineering practices.
• Ensure design quality, testability, release readiness, and operability of deliverables.
• Guide estimates and approaches when working with developers and product owners.
• Work independently while collaborating with cross-functional teams in an Agile environment.
• Interact with business partners to clarify requirements, explain options, and provide knowledge transfer as needed.

Skills

Python

C#

APIs

React

GitHub Copilot

Jenkins

Jira

Confluence

SonarQube

Terraform

Azure

Snowflake

SQL

Angular

Agile

Education

Computer Science or Engineering degree or equivalent

Tools

GitHub

Jenkins

Jira

Confluence

SonarQube

Terraform

Ansible

Azure

Snowflake

Oracle

SQL Server

React

Angular

Job description

NOTE: HYBRID work model, 3-days on-site in Toronto/week

Type: 5-month contract (possibility of extension)

Rate: $90-100/hr, 8 hours/day, 40 hours/week

SKILLS: 7+ years Developer, Python, C#, Write APIs, React, GitHub Copilot, Jenkins, Jira, Confluence, SonarQube, Terraform, Azure, Snowflake, SQL, Angular, Agile

DESCRIPTION:

As a Senior Software Developer, you will analyze, design, develop, support, and enhance software solutions that help the organization meet its business objectives. You will contribute strong technical and business knowledge to complex delivery initiatives, provide hands‑on engineering leadership, and help build secure, scalable, maintainable, and well‑supported systems.

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and support high-quality software solutions that make appropriate use of modern technology and enterprise standards.
• Translate business requirements into practical technical designs, implementation plans, acceptance criteria, and delivery estimates.
• Develop secure, scalable, maintainable code across application services, APIs, integrations, automation, batch processing, and data-oriented workloads.
• Collaborate with architects, platform teams, security partners, infrastructure teams, and business stakeholders to validate designs and delivery approaches.
• Lead or contribute to implementation, testing, release, operational readiness, and production support activities.
• Maintain currency in technology trends and continuously improve personal and team engineering practices through research, education, experimentation, and knowledge sharing.
• Accountable for the design, development quality, testability, release readiness, operational readiness, and supportability of assigned deliverables.
• Responsible for guiding estimates and implementation approaches when working with developers, product owners, and delivery partners.
• Expected to work independently while collaborating effectively with cross‑functional teams and providing leadership within agile delivery environments.
• Interacts directly with business partners to clarify requirements, explain solution options, support adoption, and provide training or knowledge transfer where required.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Computer Science or Engineering degree, or equivalent education and professional experience.
• 7+ years of professional software development experience, including experience in a senior developer, lead developer, or technical lead capacity.
• Strong understanding of software engineering concepts, design patterns, software architecture, secure coding, testing strategies, and modern software delivery practices.
• Hands‑on experience with cloud‑native and DevSecOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, Git-based delivery workflows, automated testing, code quality tooling, and release automation.
• Proficiency using AI‑assisted coding tools to improve developer productivity, accelerate prototyping, support code generation, assist with testing, and review outputs critically for quality, security, maintainability, and compliance.
• Experience with cloud and container technologies such as Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, application registrations, secrets management, and infrastructure as code.
• Ability to communicate effectively with technical professionals and non-technical business partners, including presenting solution options and explaining trade‑offs clearly.
• Ability to work independently, prioritize work, meet deadlines, support production issues, and contribute to a collaborative agile team environment.
• Experience with cloud‑deployed enterprise applications, microservices, event‑driven architecture, APIs, workflow orchestration, or data platform integrations.
• Experience with tools and platforms such as GitHub, Jenkins, Jira, Confluence, SonarQube, Terraform, Ansible, Azure, Snowflake, Oracle, SQL Server, React, or Angular.

NOTE: As part of our hiring process, we use AI‑based systems to support initial applicant screening.