Transparency Pricing & Risk Developer

TD; Canada; On-site; CAD 126,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

A major financial institution in Toronto is seeking a Senior Level Engineer for its Transparency team. This position involves developing cross-asset automated pricing and risk systems, requiring significant experience in Core Java and Python. Candidates should have a strong grasp of multi-threaded programming, event-driven messaging systems, and familiarity with Bloomberg APIs. This is a critical role that directly impacts trading activities and works globally. The team values collaboration, innovation, and professional growth.

Benefits

Health and well-being benefits

Savings and retirement programs

Career development opportunities

Qualifications

• 8+ years' experience as a software engineer delivering FO pricing/trading/risk solutions.
• Strong understanding and experience with multi-threaded programming.
• Experience with implementing automated unit + regression testing into CI/CD development pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Work on the development of cross-asset automated pricing and risk systems.
• Collaborate with sales/trading/quant teams on pricing/risk model requirements.
• Lead technical design and solutions focused on efficiency and reliability.

Skills

Core Java

Python

Multi-threaded programming

Event-driven messaging systems

Tools

Bloomberg APIs

JavaScript

React

Job description

Work Location

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Hours

37.5

Line of Business

Technology Solutions

Pay Details

$126,800 - $164,100 CAD

This role is eligible for a discretionary variable compensation award that considers business and individual performance.

TD is committed to providing fair and equitable compensation opportunities to all colleagues. Growth opportunities and skill development are defining features of the colleague experience at TD. Our compensation policies and practices have been designed to allow colleagues to progress through the salary range over time as they progress in their role. The base pay actually offered may vary based upon the candidate's skills and experience, job‑related knowledge, geographic location, and other specific business and organizational needs.

As a candidate, you are encouraged to ask compensation related questions and have an open dialogue with your recruiter who can provide you more specific details for this role.

Job Description

Corporate Profile

TD Bank Group Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with more than 85,000 employees in offices around the world, The Toronto‑Dominion Bank and its subsidiaries are collectively known as TD Bank Group (TD). TD offers a full range of financial products and services more than 25 million customers worldwide through three key business lines:

• Canadian Retail including TD Canada Trust, Business Banking, TD Auto Finance (Canada), TD Wealth (Canada), TD Direct Investing and TD Insurance
• U.S. Retail including TD Bank, America's Most Convenient Bank, TD Auto Finance (U.S.), TD Wealth (U.S.) and TD's investment in TD Ameritrade
• Wholesale Banking including TD Securities

TD Securities offers a wide range of capital markets products and services to corporate, government, and institutional clients who choose us for our innovation, execution, and experience.

With more than 6,500 professionals operating out of 40 cities across the globe, we help clients meet their needs today and prepare for tomorrow. Our services include underwriting and distributing new issues, providing trusted advice and industry‑leading insight, extending access to global markets, and delivering integrated transaction banking solutions.

We are growth‑oriented, people‑focused, and community‑minded. As a team, we work to deliver value for our clients every day.

Business Context

The Transparency team is a Front Office development team responsible for the development of cross‑asset automated pricing and risk systems, primarily focused on FICC derivatives. The Transparency team works directly with global sales/trading/quant teams on the development of applications incorporating pricing and risk models used for electronic trading. These applications are used globally by Front Office sales and traders and are critical to TD's trading activities. This is a global team with engineers in Toronto, London, New York and Singapore.

We use the following technology stack:

• Java 17+/Scala/Python 3+
• React and AngularJS
• Solace messaging
• Hazelcast distributed computing
• ZeroMQ for remote socket communication
• Google Protocol Buffers/JSON/SBE for serialization
• Graphite and Grafana for metrics
• RHEL Linux 8+

Senior Level Engineer – Job Description

The Transparency Team is looking for a Senior Level Engineer to join our core pricing/risk services development team. The ideal candidate has the following skills:

Technical Skills

• 8+ years' experience as a software engineer delivering FO pricing/trading/risk solutions.
• Ability to work with sales/trading/quant teams on implementing pricing/risk model requirements.
• Ability to work with eTrading/infrastructure teams on distribution of pricing/risk model outputs.
• 8+ years' of strong Core Java knowledge, JDK 11+
• 4+ years' of strong Python knowledge and enterprise level development experience.
• Ability to develop high performance event‑driven messaging systems.
• Experience with implementing automated unit + regression testing into CI/CD development pipelines.
• Strong understanding and experience with multi‑threaded programming.

Highly Desirable

• Strong knowledge of Interest Rate Swap products (FRA/IRS/XCCY)
• Experience working with Bloomberg APIs (i.e. BPIPE, SAPI, DAPI)
• Experience with Java performance testing.
• JavaScript + React experience.

Business Skills

• A strong leader on technical design and solutions and to provides technical expertise with a focus on efficiency, reliability, scalability, and security; includes planning, evaluating, recommending, designing, operationalizing, and supporting solutions in compliance with enterprise and industry standards.
• Ability to plan, evaluate, recommend, design, operationalize, and support solutions in compliance with enterprise and industry standards.
• Ability to lead and help team members on technical implementations.
• Ability to work on multiple initiatives at the same time.
• Familiar with Agile, and SDLC processes.

Additional Information

• Inspire a positive work environment and help champion quality, innovation, teamwork and service to the business.
• Learn voraciously, stretch your thinking, share your knowledge and educate others.
• Communicate and collaborate with both technical and non‑technical professionals.
• Cultivate winning relationships by building trust with business and technology partners.
• Share our commitment to productivity, effectiveness and operational efficiency.

Our Total Rewards Package

Our Total Rewards package reflects the investments we make in our colleagues to help them and their families achieve their financial, physical, and mental well‑being goals. Total Rewards at TD includes a base salary, variable compensation, and several other key plans such as health and well‑being benefits, savings and retirement programs, paid time off, banking benefits and discounts, career development, and reward and recognition programs. Learn more.

Training & Onboarding

We will provide training and onboarding sessions to ensure that you've got everything you need to succeed in your new role.

Interview Process

We'll reach out to candidates of interest to schedule an interview. We do our best to communicate outcomes to all applicants by email or phone call.

Accommodation

Your accessibility is important to us. Please let us know if you'd like accommodations (including accessible meeting rooms, captioning for virtual interviews, etc.) to help us remove barriers so that you can participate throughout the interview process.

Language Requirement (Quebec only)

Sans Objet