Senior Software Engineer - Fintech Platform

Propel Holdings; Toronto; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Growth opportunities

Excellent culture

Competitive salary

Comprehensive vacation package

Group health and dental benefits

RRSP program

Parental support

Diverse and inclusive workplace

Job summary

Propel Holdings, a Toronto-based fintech, seeks a seasoned software developer to build and modernize core lending and customer workflow systems. You will design, implement, test, and maintain changes across business-critical platforms while solving production issues and ensuring data integrity.

You will collaborate with product, QA, support, and DevOps to ship features, review code, and improve software quality in a fast-paced, AI-enabled environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Finance, Economics, Analytics, Business, Math, Statistics, or a related field.
• 5-7 years of hands-on experience as a software developer (Java + Spring Boot + Hibernate/JPA + REST)
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills, especially around API behavior, service integrations, and database-backed applications.
• Comfort working with SQL and diagnosing data-related issues in live business workflows.
• Ability to work through ambiguity, understand legacy code, and make safe incremental improvements.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively with cross-functional partners.
• Experience using generative AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot) is an asset.
• Ability to integrate or adopt AI tools in day-to-day tasks.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, test, and maintain application changes across business-critical platforms and core lending and customer workflow systems.
• Write efficient, clean, and maintainable code.
• Investigate and resolve production issues, including defects involving application behavior, internal service calls, database records, and data consistency.
• Partner with product, QA, support, and DevOps to ship features, validate fixes, and support releases safely.
• Continuously improving the quality of software through reviews and refactoring.
• Actively participate in meetings, offer insights and feedback while considering diverse perspectives
• Collaborate with cross functional teams in a respectful and constructive manner
• Take ownership of end-to-end projects and drive it to completion in a timely manner
• Take accountability for the quality of your work and actions. Address challenges proactively and honestly
• Demonstrate high standards of honesty and transparency in all interactions and actions
• Adhere to ethical guidelines and ensure the security, privacy, and compliance of our software solutions

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Hibernate/JPA

REST APIs

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Propel Holdings, a Toronto-based fintech, seeks a seasoned software developer to build and modernize core lending and customer workflow systems. You will design, implement, test, and maintain changes across business-critical platforms while solving production issues and ensuring data integrity.

You will collaborate with product, QA, support, and DevOps to ship features, review code, and improve software quality in a fast-paced, AI-enabled environment.