Senior Systems Developer

Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan Trust Fund Company; Toronto; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

As a Senior Systems Developer in the Investment Solutions Group at a leading healthcare pension plan, you will enhance trading and risk management systems. Your role involves full lifecycle project development, collaboration in Agile Scrum teams, and innovation in financial technologies, focusing on delivering effective solutions for portfolio management.

Benefits

Company-paid extended health and dental benefits

Flexible learning and development initiatives

Wellness programs including yoga and meditation

Defined benefit pension plan

Parental leave top-up

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in back-end or full stack development.
• Experienced in financial risk management or investment management.
• Proficient in cloud platforms, T-SQL, and modern development tools.

Responsibilities

• Participate in Agile Scrum practices and design meetings.
• Build, launch, and support major features while resolving production issues.
• Support development teams and automate deployment processes.

Skills

Back-end development

Full stack development

Communication skills

Problem-solving

Tools

T-SQL

AWS

Azure

GCP (Google Cloud Platform)

Git

CI / CD

Python

Anaconda

Job description

high-performance, people-focused culture

Our commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion is fundamental to our work environment and business success, helping employees feel valued and empowered to be their authentic selves.

We offer learning and development initiatives, including workshops, Speaker Series events, and access to LinkedIn Learning, supporting employees’ career growth.

Membership in HOOPP’s world-class defined benefit pension plan, which can serve as an important part of your retirement security.

Competitive, 100% company-paid extended health and dental benefits for permanent employees, including coverage supporting our team's diversity and mental health (e.g., gender affirmation, fertility and drug treatment, psychological support benefits of $2,500 per year, parental leave top-up, and a health spending account).

Optional post-retirement health and dental benefits subsidized at 50%.

Wellness programs such as yoga classes, meditation workshops, nutritional consultations, and seminars.

The opportunity to make a difference by helping to provide a financially secure retirement for Ontario healthcare workers.

Job Summary :

The Investment Solutions Group (ISG) delivers advanced technological solutions to HOOPP traders, portfolio managers, and cross-functional teams including Risk Management and Finance.

As a Senior Systems Developer in the ISG Risk division, you will work on projects across the entire trade, portfolio, and financial risk management lifecycle, including sourcing and mapping market and position data, financial engineering, modeling securities, designing and implementing risk models, tech architecture, and analytical processes.

What you will do :

• Participate actively in Agile Scrum practices such as daily standups, backlog refinement, planning, and retrospectives.
• Contribute during design and planning meetings, issue retrospectives, code reviews, and team retrospectives; write wiki articles.
• Create a safe, supportive, and participatory environment that fosters mutual respect.
• Set up your development environment, review code, databases, and configurations.
• Learn our technical stack and systems by applying changes, including pricing engines and risk calculation systems, using automated build and deployment pipelines.
• Collaborate with analysts to review specifications and design solutions.
• Build, launch, and support major features, including planning, dependency resolution, education, and migration.
• Resolve complex production issues across systems and technologies.
• Support other development teams through collaboration and education on platform best practices.
• Quickly learn, evaluate, and apply new concepts and technologies.
• Participate in the off-hours on-call rotation, which is designed to be light.

Who you are :

• 5+ years experience in back-end or full-stack development.
• 5+ years experience in capital markets, investment management, or financial risk management.
• Familiarity with investment management artifacts and concepts (e.g., market data, security master, pricing, and risk models).
• Proven knowledge of software development design patterns and distributed systems.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills with end-to-end ownership capabilities.
• Technical experience in T-SQL with DBA fundamentals.
• Proficiency with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Skilled in modern development tools and practices, such as git, CI/CD, and unit testing.
• Experience with DevOps Infrastructure as Code is an asset.
• Prior experience with Python or Anaconda is an asset.
• Experience in financial risk systems is a plus.