Team Lead, Software Engineering

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

What’s in it for you as an employee of QFG?

• Health & wellbeing resources and programs
• Paid vacation, personal, and sick days for work-life balance
• Competitive compensation and benefits packages
• Work-life balance in a hybrid environment with at least 3 days in office
• Career growth and development opportunities
• Opportunities to contribute to community causes
• Work with diverse team members in an inclusive and collaborative environment

This job posting is for an existing vacancy and the location can be Toronto, ON (5700 Yonge St/70 York St) OR Calgary, AB (Our Brand-New Office)

We’re looking for our next Team Lead, Software Engineering . Could It Be You?

The Team Lead architecturally orchestrates integration layers and unifies customer journeys across complex and legacy systems. This leadership role focuses on technical stewardship in areas like identity propagation, implementing resilience engineering patterns, and managing technical debt. The Team Lead also mentors engineers and partners cross-functionally to ensure structural soundness and feasibility during feature discovery..

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• Drive cross-domain orchestration by architecting resilient integration layers (e.g., GraphQL Federation, API Gateways) that aggregate legacy banking cores and microservices.
• Unify customer journeys, ensuring core workflows like money transfers deliver smooth, performant experiences across savings, brokerage, and lending products.
• Champion technical stewardship, owning single sign-on (SSO), cross-app session management, and identity propagation (KYC/AML) to balance security and usability.
• Implement resilience engineering patterns (circuit breakers, retries, bulkhead isolation) to prevent failure propagation across heterogeneous platforms.
• Lead and mentor Pod engineers, fostering a holistic engineering mindset regarding how system latency and data flows impact the broader user dashboard.
• Partner cross-functionally with UX Research and Product Management to embed technical feasibility into feature designs during early discovery.
• Make high-judgment calls on technical debt, distinguishing speed-buying workarounds from technical rot while navigating legacy middleware and APIs.
• Lead root-cause analysis for multi-system outages, focusing incident command on structural fixes rather than immediate workarounds.

So are YOU our next Team Lead, Software Engineering ? You are if you…

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 7+ years of software development experience with demonstrated technical leadership or Pod lead responsibilities.
• Proven experience designing and scaling orchestration layers (GraphQL Federation, API Gateways) across heterogeneous systems.
• Strong background in distributed transaction management, eventual consistency, and identity standards (OAuth2, OIDC, JWTs, SSO).
• Practical experience implementing resilience patterns (circuit breakers, retries, bulkhead isolation) across complex system boundaries.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers, influence technical roadmaps, and partner cross-functionally with UX and Product

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience navigating financial regulatory requirements (PII, SOC 2, AML/KYC) while maintaining user experience standards.
• Incident command experience leading root-cause analysis across complex, multi-system outages.
• Strong track record of high-judgment calls on technical debt and legacy system modernization

Compensation Information:

• Base salary range: $130,000- $175,000
• The final compensation package will be commensurate with the successful candidate's experience, skills, and geographic location (Canada). It includes a comprehensive benefits plan and a competitive incentive (bonus) program for Full-Time Permanent roles.