Senior Team Lead, Software Engineering & Architecture

Questrade Financial Group; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 130,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & wellbeing

Paid time off

Hybrid work model

Competitive compensation

Career development

Community involvement

Inclusive culture

Job summary

Questrade Financial Group seeks a Team Lead, Software Engineering to architect and coordinate cross-domain integration layers, unifying customer journeys across legacy and modern systems.

You will mentor engineers, drive architectural decisions around identity propagation and resilience, and partner with UX/Product to embed feasibility early in discovery. This hybrid role requires leadership in a fast-paced financial tech environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in a technical field.
• Demonstrated leadership or pod lead responsibilities.
• Experience designing and scaling orchestration layers across heterogeneous systems.
• Strong background in identity standards and security (OAuth2, OIDC, JWTs, SSO).
• Experience implementing resilience patterns across complex systems.

Responsibilities

• Drive cross-domain orchestration by architecting resilient integration layers (GraphQL Federation, API Gateways) across legacy cores and microservices.
• Unify customer journeys to ensure money transfer workflows are smooth and performant.
• Champion technical stewardship, owning SSO, cross-app session management, and identity propagation.
• Implement resilience patterns to prevent failure propagation across platforms.
• Lead and mentor Pod engineers and collaborate with UX and Product during discovery.

Skills

Technical leadership

GraphQL Federation

API Gateways

OAuth2

OIDC

JWTs

SSO

Resilience patterns

Mentoring engineers

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Job description

Questrade Financial Group seeks a Team Lead, Software Engineering to architect and coordinate cross-domain integration layers, unifying customer journeys across legacy and modern systems.

You will mentor engineers, drive architectural decisions around identity propagation and resilience, and partner with UX/Product to embed feasibility early in discovery. This hybrid role requires leadership in a fast-paced financial tech environment.