Sr. Software Developer – Java AWS

Ward Technology Talent; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Ward Technology Talent seeks a Sr. Software Developer – Java AWS for a remote contract role servicing Toronto, ON.

You will contribute to solution design, development and testing of cloud-native applications, focusing on RESTful services, API security, and scalable multi-tier architectures with AWS. Ideal candidates have strong Java 11+/17+ experience, AWS expertise, and exposure to Spark/PySpark, SQL/NoSQL, and CI/CD pipelines.

Qualifications

• Proficient in Java 11+ and building RESTful APIs.
• Experience implementing API authentication and authorization (OAuth2, SAML).
• Proficient with SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Proficient in Python and Spark/PySpark.
• Experience with JSON, YAML, Parquet.
• Hands-on AWS cloud experience including serverless and container workloads.

Responsibilities

• Participate in solution development including design, development and testing.
• Work with architect to build cloud-native solutions following standards.
• Develop CI/CD pipeline jobs.
• Create and execute scripted tests for unit and integration tests.
• Adhere to standards, methodologies and QA processes.
• Deliver defined technical solutions as part of a development team.
• Produce technical documentation: architecture, design, tests, runbooks.

Skills

Java

REST APIs

OAuth2 / SAML

SQL / NoSQL

Python / Spark

JSON / YAML / Parquet

AWS Cloud services

AWS Serverless (Lambda)

AWS CloudFormation

AWS CDK (Python)

Apache Airflow

Tools

AWS (VPC/ECS/S3)

AWS RDS / Aurora / DynamoDB / ElastiCache

AWS CDK

CloudFormation

Job description

Sr. Software Developer – Java AWS

Contract | REMOTE - Toronto, ON | September 2, 2026

Responsibilities

• Participate, as part of the development team, in solution development related activities including solution design, development, and testing
• Work with Application Architect and Technical Lead to develop a cloud-native solution in conformance with Client code development standards and Client Blueprint Architecture
• Participate in the development of CI/CD pipeline jobs
• Develop and execute scripted test plans, scenarios, and test cases for unit and integration testing
• Adhere to Client’s system development standards, methodologies, quality assurance principles and processes.
• Deliver, as part of a development team, the defined technical solution.
• Author and/or provide input to technical documentation including, but not limited to, a Logical/Physical Solution Architecture, Technical Design Document, Test Strategy, test plans and test cases, Operational Playbook and Runbooks.
• Provide oral briefings on an ongoing basis to appraise Client’s Technical Lead as to the project status, challenges, risks and performance.

Required Experience

• Experience with Java 11,17+
• Extensive experience implementing restful web services APIs.
• Experience with API authentication and authorization methods, SAML, OATH2
• Experience with SQL and no-SQL databases
• Experience with Python, Spark, PySpark
• Experience with JSON, YAML, Parquet
• Extensive experience in software development that includes design, development, testing and implementation of complex multi-tier systems using industry-standard tools and development best practices.
• Experience with AWS VPC, ECS, S3
• Experience with AWS RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, ElastiCache
• Experience with AWS Server-less compute, lambda, step-functions
• Experience with AWS CloudFormation
• Experience with AWS CDK, specifically with Python
• Exposure to Apache Airflow

• 202-626 King St. W.
  Toronto, ON, M5V 1M7
  Canada

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