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Senior Software Engineer

The engineer will design and develop sophisticated software solutions while mentoring junior team members and driving technical requirements. They are responsible for maintaining product quality, performing advanced refactoring, and contributing to system design sessions.

  • Hybrid
  • Toronto, ON
  • Posted Jul 30, 2026
  • 1 position

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Job summary

\n What you'll do: * 6+ years of software development experience, preferably with Project Lead experience. * Takes personal responsibility for quality and maintainability of the product and actively identifies areas for improvement * Identifies problems/risks of own work and others. * Understanding of OWASP * Possesses empathy with the user of the software they are producing and uses that empathy to guide decision-making * Identifies viable alternative solutions and presents them * SDLC processes are followed, including adopting agile-based processes/meetings, peer code-reviews, and technical preparations required for scheduled releases. * Partners with product and analytics and drive requirements that take into account all parties' needs * On-boards and mentors less experienced team members * Develops sophisticated software with minimum supervision * Makes complex contributions to technical documentation/knowledge base and team/engineering presentations * Strong ability to mentor and guide junior developers. * May have role in supervising others or leading small to moderate projects * Fixes complex bugs and demonstrates advanced debugging skills * Produces quality API documentation and ensures practices are followed * Contributes to system design sessions in their area of specialty * Expanded Code review responsibilities * Performs advanced refactoring * Gives constructive feedback to team members * Learn industry jargon and business concepts to better understand the challenges our technology is designed to solve. * Raises roadblocks and updates estimations as needed * Ability to communicate complicated concepts to junior staff. What we're looking for: * Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent years’ experience * Minimum of 6 years’ professional experience in Java development. Experience working in OS X and Linux environments, Spring, AWS, Microservices, SQL, NoSQL, GIT. Experience working in a scrum and DevOps environment. Good understanding of agile application development lifecycle. * Experience Designing and building JSON or REST services, experience working with 3rd party APIs, AWS APIs, Docker or other containers, large-scale or distributed web applications, Test Driven Development and functional testing. * Extensive understanding of various design patterns and OOP paradigm * Extensive experience in RESTful and security of API design * Intermediate level in at least 1 OOP language * Intermediate knowledge in react native and react * Intermediate knowledge in Javascript * Intermediate knowledge in nodejs * Extensive knowledge how NPM package & webpack lifecycle works * Experience in IOS/Android development \n

What you’ll do

The engineer will design and develop sophisticated software solutions while mentoring junior team members and driving technical requirements. They are responsible for maintaining product quality, performing advanced refactoring, and contributing to system design sessions.

Requirements

Candidates must have at least 6 years of professional Java development experience and a bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field. Proficiency in AWS, microservices, RESTful API design, and modern web technologies like React and Node.js is required.

Listed skills

  • SQLPreferred
  • DockerPreferred
  • ReactPreferred
  • JavaScriptPreferred
  • AgilePreferred
  • Amazon Web ServicesPreferred
  • JavaPreferred
  • GitPreferred

Other relevant skills

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  • Java
  • Spring
  • AWS
  • Microservices
  • SQL
  • NoSQL
  • Git
  • React
  • React Native
  • Javascript
  • Nodejs
  • Restful APIs
  • Docker
  • Test Driven Development
  • Agile
  • DevOps
  • Empathy
  • npm (Node Package Manager)
  • Constructive Feedback
  • Android Development
  • Git (Version Control System)
  • Pinterest
  • Java (Programming Language)
  • JavaScript (Programming Language)
  • Application Programming Interface (API)
  • Agile Methodology
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Apple IOS
  • Mac OS
  • Application Development
  • Software Development
  • Automation
  • Business Concepts
  • Decision Making
  • Code Review
  • Communication
  • Computer Science
  • Debugging
  • Software Design Patterns
  • Linux
  • Functional Testing
  • Innovation
  • Invoicing
  • JSON
  • Node.js (Javascript Library)
  • Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
  • Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
  • Presentations
  • Scrum (Software Development)
  • Systems Development Life Cycle

Job areas

  • Software
  • Technology
  • Engineering
  • Software Engineer
  • Software Developer / Engineer
  • Software Developers

Additional details

Minimum education
Bachelor’s degree
Minimum experience
5+ years
Posting language
English
Working hours
40 hours per week