Sr. Full Stack Developer – 6 month contract

Job Title: Sr Full Stack Developer

Job ID:89020

Location:Toronto, Ontario – Hybrid

Overview

Our enterprise investment industry client is expanding their Toronto IT team. You will be working in a cross-functional team, using agile methodologies to build on-prem and cloud native applications for the financial services industry. We are looking for true team players who can work beyond their specialty to help the team deliver. Every team member is responsible for the quality of the product and should be willing to work on any tasks needed, be it front-end, back end, test automation, deployment automation, etc. The successful candidate will use their experience and talent to help drive the delivery of the system, introduce new tech and guide the evolution of our applications.

What you will be doing:

• Participate and contribute on all team activities such as Sprint Planning, Sprint Execution, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective
• Deliver modules (front-end & backend) to provide new features for Document Services Team
• Develop front and back end code using React, Java, Kotlin, Spring, NodeJS and Hibernate
• Be comfortable using relational databases and have PL/SQL basics
• Have core understanding of AWS. Specifically, cloud formation, cloud watch, networking, s3, lambdas, running containers on ECS and policies/roles.
• Perform code reviews and ensure the quality of the team’s work
• Testing: Design and implement unit, integration, systems, performance and load testing
• Manage AWS resources in a safe and cost-effective manner.

What you must have:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent
• Experience working on Agile teams
• 5+ years of software engineering experience. Specifically building and architecting web applications and backend services.
• 5+ years of experience with Java/Kotlin/Spring/Hibernate/NodeJS
• 5+ years of experience with React / Redux
• 3+ years of experience working and deploying services to AWS.
• Comfortable with Python
• Experience with Docker
• Experience with AWS services such as S3, ECS, Fargate, API Gateway, IAM, CFN
• Experience with relational databases (ideally PostgreSQL)
• Experience with NoSql databases (ideally Elastic Search) would be an asset
• Working knowledge of Kotlin is a plus
• Solid understanding and demonstrated proficiency with core software development processes – debugging, code tuning, code management and branching, coding styles and refactoring.
• Must be self-motivated and driven, with strong analytical, problem solving, and communication skills.

Key Skills Required:

• Java / Kotlin
• SQL (PostgreSQL)
• Strong AWS services understanding
• React / JavaScript / TypeScript

Salary/Rate Range: $70.00 – $75.00/ hour

Term:6 months contract