Intermediate Software Developer
$90,000–$115,000 year
Hybrid · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Job Summary
Design, implement, test, and maintain application changes across business-critical platform and core lending and customer workflow systems. Write efficient, clean, and maintainable code. Investigate and resolve production issues involving application behavior, internal service calls, database records, and data consistency. Partner with product, QA, support, and DevOps to ship features, validate fixes, and support releases safely. Continuously improve software quality through reviews and refactoring. Take ownership of end-to-end projects and drive them to completion with accountability for quality, honesty, and privacy compliance. Collaborate with cross-functional teams in a respectful, constructive manner and contribute insights in meetings. Proficiency in Java + Spring Boot + Hibernate/JPA + REST; strong SQL skills; experience with AI tools is asset; familiarity with cloud (AWS) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and modern DevOps practices; exposure to full-stack development and enterprise financial applications. “Nice to have” capabilities include CI/CD pipelines, web security, and React/Angular front-end experience.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Finance, Economics, Analytics, Business, Math, Statistics, or a related field
- 5-7 years of hands-on experience as a software developer (Java + Spring Boot + Hibernate/JPA + REST)
- Strong debugging and problem-solving skills around API behavior, service integrations, and database-backed applications
- Comfort working with SQL and diagnosing data-related issues in live business workflows
- Ability to work through ambiguity, understand legacy code, and make safe incremental improvements
- Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively with cross-functional partners
- Experience using generative AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot) is an asset
- Knowledge of AWS, Docker, Kubernetes (Nice to Have)
- Experience/Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and workflows (Nice to Have)
- Exposure to web security (Nice to Have)
- Hands-on experience building full-stack applications (React/Angular or similar front end technologies)
- Experience working on enterprise level financial applications
- Salary range provided by posting
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