Unified Customer Experience - Senior Software Engineer

Questrade Financial Group; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 100,000 - 144,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health resources

Paid vacation & sick days

Competitive compensation

Hybrid with in-office days

Career growth

Community involvement

Diverse & inclusive team

Job summary

Questrade Financial Group in Toronto targets a Senior Software Engineer to design and deliver high‑performance features across React Native, ReactJS, NodeJS and APIs. This platform‑flexible role lets you choose frontend, backend, or full‑stack focus, with collaboration to shape the focus during interviews.

You’ll set engineering standards, mentor developers, and drive scalable, resilient architectures while owning health for key components and exploring AI tooling to boost productivity.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience building, shipping, and operating production software at scale.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.
• Expertise in at least one stack (front-end or back-end) across the full tech spectrum.
• Experience with RESTful APIs and microservices architectures.
• Strong cloud-native experience (GCP) with CI/CD; Kubernetes exposure is a plus.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives across developers.
• Excellent communication skills with cross-functional audiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical design and delivery of complex features across front-end and back-end or both.
• Break down large problems into deliverable increments aligned with product partners.
• Set and enforce coding quality, testing, security, observability, and operational standards.
• Own performance and scalability across your area under production load.
• Mentor junior developers and provide constructive code reviews.
• Collaborate with Product, UX, EA, and Security for scalable designs.
• Lead incident response and post-incident improvements.
• Manage health of key components and address technical debt.
• Explore and adopt AI tools to boost developer productivity.
• Contribute to technical hiring through assessments and interviews.

Skills

Front-end track

Back-end track

RESTful APIs

Cloud-native (GCP)

CI/CD

Kubernetes exposure

Tech leadership

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field

Tools

React Native

ReactJS

Node.js

TypeScript

Kafka

Pub/Sub

GCP

Kubernetes

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.

We're looking for our next Senior Software Engineer. Could It Be You?

The Senior Software Engineer leads the technical design and delivery of complex, high-performance features across Questrade's products, spanning front-end applications (React Native, ReactJS) and back-end services (NodeJS, APIs, distributed systems). This role is intentionally platform-flexible: candidates may lean toward front-end, back-end, or full-stack work, with the specific focus determined collaboratively during the interview process based on the candidate's strongest expertise and the team's current needs. The Senior Software Engineer sets engineering standards, mentors developers, partners cross-functionally to ensure scalable and resilient architectures, and owns service or application health for key domain components.

Need more details? Keep reading…

In this role, responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Lead technical design and delivery of complex features and services — front-end, back-end, or both — documenting architectural trade-offs.

• Break down large, ambiguous problems into deliverable increments and sequence them with product partners.

• Set and enforce engineering standards for code quality, testing, security, observability, and operational readiness across the stack.

• Own performance and scalability across your area — profiling, identifying bottlenecks, and optimizing under production load (for example, high-frequency, real-time data streaming in trading features).

• Mentor and coach intermediate and junior developers, delivering constructive code reviews and guiding technical growth regardless of specialization.

• Partner with Product, UX, Enterprise Architecture, and Security to ensure scalable, resilient, and compliant designs across platforms.

• Lead incident response for significant outages in your area of ownership, driving blameless post-incident reviews to closure with structural fixes.

• Own health for key domain components — performance, reliability, and technical debt — on the front end, back end, or both.

• Champion the exploration and adoption of AI tools to improve developer productivity and platform features.

• Contribute to technical hiring by conducting technical assessments and candidate interviews, including helping calibrate a candidate's front-end/back-end fit.

So are YOU our next Senior Software Engineer ? You are if you…

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

• 6+ years of experience building, shipping, and operating production software at scale.

• Deep, hands-on expertise in at least one of the following tracks, with working familiarity across the stack:

• Front-end track: Expert-level JavaScript/TypeScript with React Native (mobile) and/or ReactJS (web); strong grasp of state management, component architecture, and cross-platform performance (memory profiling, bundle size, render optimization).

• Back-end track: Deep expertise in Node.js/TypeScript; proven experience designing distributed systems, APIs, and data models under production load.

• Proven experience with RESTful APIs and service-oriented or microservices architectures, from either the consuming or the building side.

• Strong cloud-native experience (GCP preferred), including CI/CD at scale; containerization/Kubernetes exposure is a plus.

• Demonstrated experience leading technical initiatives across multiple developers without formal authority.

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate technical trade-offs to both engineering and cross-functional audiences.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with real-time data streaming technologies (WebSockets, Kafka, Pub/Sub) or low-latency, high-frequency financial/trading systems.

• For back-end-leaning candidates: front-end or mobile framework exposure (ReactJS, React Native, iOS/Android) is a strong asset.

• Angular experience is a nice-to-have.

• Domain experience in financial services, brokerage, trading, or regulated environments.

• SRE practices, capacity planning, or cloud cost optimization (FinOps).

• Experience building AI/ML-enabled features or data-intensive platforms.

• Active technical thought leadership (open-source contributions, technical publications, conference speaking).

Compensation Information:

• Base salary range: $100,000- $144,000

• 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.