Software Developer Specialist - Security Product

Intact; Toronto; On-site; CAD 118,700 - 145,100; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus target up to 15%

Employee Share Purchase Plan

Pension plan with guaranteed income

Possibility to purchase extra days off

Job summary

Intact is seeking talented individuals to join our security team in Toronto, Ontario. The role involves designing and building next-generation security products to enhance secure software development. It includes responsibilities like developing automation platforms and ensuring compliance evaluation while collaborating closely with product teams.

The ideal candidate holds a degree in Software Engineering or a related field, with over 7 years of relevant experience in building production software. We offer a hybrid work model with flexible arrangements.

Qualifications

• 7+ years building production software and platforms with a focus on automation.
• Proven experience owning end‑to‑end product development.
• Expertise in backend languages and frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build reusable services and APIs.
• Implement features across backend and frontend components.
• Develop self‑service security products.

Skills

Software Engineering

System Design

Java

Python

Go

Node.js

Angular

SQL

NoSQL

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD Pipelines

Application Security

Communication Skills

Education

Degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related field

Tools

Grafana

Power BI

AWS

Azure

GCP

REST

GraphQL

Job description

Compensation

Salary range: 118,700 – 145,100 CAD per year (35‑hour workweek). Annual bonus target up to 15% of base salary, with potential payout up to double the target. Employee Share Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers a 50% match of net shares. Pension plan provides guaranteed income for life via a defined benefit plan.

About the role

Join our security team to design and build next‑generation security products that reshape how secure software is developed and deployed. You will craft automation platforms, intelligent services, and self‑service experiences that embed security into modern engineering workflows with minimal friction. This role focuses on secure software engineering and product development to deliver forward‑looking solutions from practical remediation guidance to proactive posture insights that scale across Intact’s application and infrastructure landscape.

What you'll do

• Architect and build reusable services, APIs, and libraries that operationalize application security best practices at scale.
• Implement features and enhancements across backend and/or frontend components.
• Write clean, maintainable code.
• Create automation that orchestrates compliance evaluation.
• Develop self‑service security products that streamline SSDLC and accelerate secure delivery.
• Implement AI‑assisted capabilities for contextual vulnerability triage and proactive guardrails.
• Automate posture analytics and executive‑ready dashboards (Grafana, Power BI) to surface trends, coverage, and risk signals.
• Work closely with product, architect, and design to ensure functionality meets user needs.
• Drive adoption through demos, guidance, and workshops.

What you bring to the table

• Degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• 7+ years building production software and platforms with a focus on automation, integrations, and product reliability.
• Proven experience owning end‑to‑end product from technical design and prototyping through implementation, testing, rollout, and maintenance.
• Strong system design skills to design scalable, resilient, and observable services. Familiarity with design patterns and trade‑offs.
• Expertise in at least one backend language (Java, Python, Go, or Node.js/TypeScript) and related frameworks (Spring Boot/MVC, Express.js, NestJS).
• Good frontend experience building SPAs (preferably Angular; React or Next.js also acceptable), including component architecture, state management, and secure UX patterns.
• Clean coding, automated testing (unit/integration/e2e), code reviews, and continuous improvement.
• Experience building secure APIs and integrations (REST/GraphQL), including authorization, input validation, and error handling.
• Comfort with data modeling and persistence (SQL/NoSQL), performance tuning, and migration strategies.
• Knowledge of logging, metrics, tracing, health checks, performance profiling, and SLOs.
• Experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines for application delivery, including adding security steps and quality gates.
• Ability to decompose complex problems, define clear acceptance criteria, and deliver iteratively with measurable outcomes.
• Guide peers, drive design reviews, and influence architecture.
• Familiarity with cloud‑native application design (AWS/Azure/GCP), containerization (Docker), and basic orchestration concepts (Kubernetes) with security considerations.
• Exposure to AI/LLM product development, prompt engineering, model integration, evaluation/validation, and data privacy considerations.
• Working knowledge of application security fundamentals and standards (e.g., OWASP Top 10, secure coding practices, supply chain security).
• Experience integrating or operating SAST/DAST, dependency, and cloud security tools, capable of integrating vendor products into developer workflows.
• Excellent communication skills, able to translate security and engineering concepts for diverse audiences.
• Nice to have: ServiceNow AVR exposure. Certifications (e.g., CISSP, CEH) are optional.
• No Canadian work experience required; must be eligible to work in Canada.
• For candidates located in Quebec, bilingualism is required to interact regularly with English‑speaking colleagues across the country.

Equal Opportunity Employer

We are an equal‑opportunity employer. At Intact, our values of respect are founded on seeing diversity as a strength.

We encourage applications from individuals who are members of equity‑deserving groups, including but not limited to women, Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, Black people, and members of the 2SLGBTQI+ community.

We have policies to ensure equal access and participation for people with disabilities, including providing workplace adjustments (accommodations). A copy of applicable policies is available on request.

If we can provide a specific adjustment to make the recruitment process more accessible for you, please let us know when we reach out about a job opportunity. We’ll work with you to meet your needs.

Please note that Intact does not provide sponsorship or other support for immigration‑related matters. Candidates must be eligible to work in Canada from the anticipated start date and throughout their employment and are solely responsible for maintaining their work eligibility.

Work Model

Hybrid work model available with flexible arrangements. Possibility to purchase up to five extra days off per year.