Senior Software Engineer and Lead – Backend

Company Overview

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Department Overview

Building a World-Class, Diverse and Inclusive Technology Team

We can’t afford to be boring. Neither can you. The scale and scope of what TD does may surprise you. The rapid pace of change makes it a business imperative for us to be smart and open-minded in the way we think about technology. TD’s technology and business teams become more intertwined as new opportunities present themselves. This new era in banking does not equal boring. Not at TD, anyway.

TD Applications & Systems Development covers technical planning, integration, systems analysis, design, development, unit and component systems testing, support-maintenance, and more. Meaningful, effective relationship-building is part of what these highly-skilled experts do best as they work together with technology project managers, delivery partners, business and systems analysts, testing and quality assurance teams, sponsors and so many other stakeholders to clarify requirements.

There’s room to grow in all of it.

Job Description

About This Role

We are looking for someone to lead the creation of a comprehensive end-to-end detailed solution with overall accountability for the technical design and delivery of the System Design Specification (SDS). You’ll be exposed to stretch assignments as you take on large-scale, complex and/or enterprise-wide projects.

Data as a Service team is an enterprise-wide data management and data provider platform at TD. We are accountable for developing RESTful APIs, Front-end applications and Batch processes that supports delivery of data for various TD platforms.

As a Senior full stack software developer and Lead of this team, you will play a critical role in development efforts to support overall goal of the business. You will work with our team of talented software engineers to design and build the next generation of applications in the FinTech ecosystem (TD Wealth, Insurance, Personal and Business Banking) in a hybrid environment encompassing on-prem and cloud hosted applications.

Responsibilities for this position include:

• Work as a Senior Software Developer Lead to design, develop, and deliver complex requirements to accomplish business goals.
• This is a hands-on senior development lead role to build quality, well thought out RESTful APIs using JAVA Springboot, and transform service-oriented applications into Microservice based solution that are scalable and reusable by multiple calling systems.
• Participate in Agile development projects and bring technical guidance and leadership to the team.
• Align with DevOps principles and work to improve automation capabilities and development practices.
• Lead the creation of a comprehensive end-to-end detailed solution with overall accountability for the technical design and delivery of the System.
• Take business, Enterprise Architecture, system performance and development standards requirements, then develop functional, technical and user interface designs for an application and/or system.
• Collaborate with other team members thru knowledge sharing, and continuously expanding best practices and challenge the status quo and propose newer and better practice to adopt.
• Conduct code reviews to address quality, standards compliance, reusability and ease of maintenance, Operational Readiness Reviews, and support gating and review signoffs for solution design.
• Provide technical support to promptly resolve escalated incidents/outages.
• Aim for defect-free programming, create, and maintain quality code, provide support during testing cycles and post-production deployment, engage in peer code reviews.

Requirements

What can you bring to TD? Share your credentials, but your relevant experience and knowledge can be just as likely to get our attention. It helps if you have:

• Prefer 8+ years of experience in software design & development, including a clear understanding of data structures, algorithms, software design and object-oriented programming concepts.
• Strong hands-on development and design experience in building RESTful APIs using: Java, Spring Framework, Spring boot, Hibernate, JBoss.
• Experience with relational and non-relational database (e.g. Oracle, Cassandra, Redis).
• Familiarity with Big Data solutions is plus ( Apache Hadoop, Kafka and Apache Spark).
• Experience in using Maven and Jenkins with thorough understanding of Git, repository management, Docker and related CI/CD workflows.
• Experience with Cloud deployments is plus.
• You have shown that you can work effectively with product owners, Scrum master, Solution designers and other engineering teams.
• You love the challenges and are confident in your ability to bring clarity and direction to ambiguous problem space.
• You work well in fast paced environment while deeply investing in long term quality and efficiency.
• B.S or higher degree in Computer Science (or equivalent work experience).

Additional Information

Remote work option is available

Join in on what others in TD Technology Solutions are doing:

• Inspire a positive work environment and help champion quality, innovation, teamwork and service to the business.
• Learn voraciously and stretch your thinking.

Inclusiveness

At TD, we are committed to fostering an inclusive, accessible environment, where all employees and customers feel valued, respected and supported. We are dedicated to building a workforce that reflects the diversity of our customers and communities in which we live and serve. If you require an accommodation for the recruitment/interview process

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Inclusiveness

At TD, we are committed to fostering an inclusive, accessible environment, where all employees and customers feel valued, respected and supported. We are dedicated to building a workforce that reflects the diversity of our customers and communities in which we live and serve. If you require an accommodation for the recruitment/interview process (including alternate formats of materials, or accessible meeting rooms or other accommodation), please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.

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