Software Engineer - Specialist

Equifax; Toronto; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Equifax as a Software Engineer to work on cutting-edge technology in a dynamic environment. You will leverage your extensive experience in cloud-native solutions to build scalable applications that solve complex business challenges. In this role, you will lead and mentor teams while driving technical excellence, contributing to the growth and success of the organization.

Benefits

Comprehensive compensation packages

Healthcare benefits

Paid time off

Online learning platform for career growth

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience.
• Experience with Cloud technology: GCP, AWS, or Azure.
• Strong communication and leadership qualities.

Responsibilities

• Develop cloud-native solutions using Java and SpringBoot.
• Lead technical teams and mentor junior engineers.
• Build relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

Skills

Cloud technology

Software development

Microservices

Java

SpringBoot

Agile methodologies

Problem solving

Communication skills

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Jenkins CI/CD

Terraform

Git

JUnit

Selenium

Apache Beam

Maven

Gradle

Job description

Equifax is where you can power your possible. If you want to achieve your true potential, chart new paths, develop new skills, collaborate with bright minds, and make a meaningful impact, we want to hear from you.

Synopsis of the role

Equifax is seeking creative, high-energy and driven software engineers with hands-on development skills to work on a variety of meaningful projects. Our software engineering positions provide you the opportunity to join a team of talented engineers working with leading-edge technology. You are ideal for this position if you are a forward-thinking, committed, and enthusiastic software engineer who is passionate about technology.

What you'll do

Demonstrate a deep understanding of cloud native, distributed micro service based architectures

Deliver solutions for complex business problems through software standard SDLC

Build strong relationships with both internal and external stakeholders including product, business and sales partners

Demonstrate excellent communication skills with the ability to both simplify complex problems and also dive deeper if needed

Build and manage strong technical teams that deliver complex software solutions that scale

Provide deep troubleshooting skills with the ability to lead and solve production and customer issues under pressure

Leverage strong experience in full stack software development and public cloud like GCP and AWS

Mentor, coach and develop junior and senior software, quality and reliability engineers

Lead with a data / metrics driven mindset with a maniacal focus towards optimizing and creating efficient solutions

Ensure compliance with EFX secure software development guidelines and best practices and responsible for meeting and maintaining QE, DevSec, and FinOps KPIs

Define, maintain and report SLA, SLO, SLIs meeting EFX engineering standards in partnership with the product, engineering and architecture teams

Collaborate with architects, SRE leads and other technical leadership on strategic technical direction, guidelines, and best practices

Drive up-to-date technical documentation including support, end user documentation and run book

Responsible for implementation architecture decision making associated with Product features / stories, refactoring work, and EOSL decisions

Create and deliver technical presentations to internal and external technical and non-technical stakeholders communicating with clarity and precision, and present complex information in a concise format that is audience appropriate

What experience you need

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

7+ years of software engineering experience

7+ years experience with Cloud technology : GCP, AWS, or Azure

7+ years experience designing and developing cloud-native solutions

7+ years experience designing and developing microservices using Java, SpringBoot, GCP SDKs, GKE / Kubernetes

7+ years experience deploying and releasing software using Jenkins CI / CD pipelines, understand infrastructure-as-code concepts, Helm Charts, and Terraform constructs

What could set you apart

Self-starter that identifies / responds to priority shifts with minimal supervision.

Strong communication and presentation skills

Strong leadership qualities

Demonstrated problem solving skills and the ability to resolve conflicts

Experience creating and maintaining product and software roadmaps

Experience overseeing yearly as well as product / project budgets

Working in a highly regulated environment

Experience designing and developing big data processing solutions using Dataflow / Apache Beam, Bigtable, BigQuery, PubSub, GCS, Composer / Airflow, and others

Experience with backend technologies such as JAVA / J2EE, SpringBoot, SOA and Microservices

Source code control management systems (e.g. SVN / Git, Github) and build tools like Maven & Gradle.

Agile environments (e.g. Scrum, XP)

Relational databases and Non relational databases

Atlassian tooling (e.g. JIRA, Confluence, and Github)

Developing with modern JDK (v1.17+)

Automated Testing : JUnit, Selenium, LoadRunner, SoapUI

We offer comprehensive compensation and healthcare packages, paid time off, and organizational growth potential through our online learning platform with guided career tracks.

Are you ready to power your possible? Apply today, and get started on a path toward an exciting new career at Equifax, where you can make a difference!

Who is Equifax?

At Equifax, we believe knowledge drives progress. As a global data, analytics and technology company, we play an essential role in the global economy by helping employers, employees, financial institutions and government agencies make critical decisions with greater confidence.

We work to help create seamless and positive experiences during life's pivotal moments : applying for jobs or a mortgage, financing an education or buying a car. Our impact is real and to accomplish our goals we focus on nurturing our people for career advancement and their learning and development, supporting our next generation of leaders, maintaining an inclusive and diverse work environment, and regularly engaging and recognizing our employees. Regardless of location or role, the individual and collective work of our employees makes a difference and we are looking for talented team players to join us as we help people live their financial best.

Equifax is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.