Java Engineer, TD Securities

TD•Toronto, ON

2d•Onsite

About The Position

TD Securities is a leading North American investment bank and financial services provider. The Global FICC Technology group aims to drive business growth for our partners in the Front-Office, Operations and beyond by delivering innovative new products, expanding trading tool capabilities, and modernizing critical platforms. The Realtime, Electronic & Automation team builds and operates digital and real-time platforms for trading and client connectivity across Precious Metals, Base Metals, and FX Options businesses. This team sits at the intersection of trading, real-time systems, automation, and market connectivity, delivering technology that enables automated trading workflows, accelerates new business ideas, and integrates seamlessly with internal and external market infrastructure. Engineers own their systems front-to-back, from low-latency services and real-time data flows to user interfaces. The team operates as a small, high-performing engineering unit with a strong culture of ownership and accountability, where engineers are trusted to lead meaningful workstreams end-to-end: shaping problem statements, designing architecture, producing high-quality code, and delivering production systems that support live trading activity. This is an environment for engineers who want to take responsibility, make decisions, and see the real-world impact of their work.

Requirements

3+ years of professional, hands-on software development experience building and supporting production systems.
Strong working knowledge of Java, with experience developing backend services using modern Java versions and frameworks such as Spring Boot.
Experience contributing to distributed and/or event-driven systems in a production environment.
Exposure to low-latency or real-time systems, ideally within financial services, trading platforms, or similarly performance-sensitive domains.
Familiarity with electronic trading concepts such as order lifecycles, market data, FIX connectivity, or trading workflows (deep expertise not required).
Experience working with messaging or streaming technologies (e.g. Kafka, Aeron, Solace, or similar).
Ability to take ownership of technical deliverables within a project, contributing across design, implementation, testing, deployment, and production support with support from senior engineers.
Solid understanding of core software engineering best practices, including clean code, basic system design principles, performance considerations, observability, and operational reliability.
Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams, including other engineers, product owners, or business stakeholders.
Good written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly explain technical concepts and participate constructively in team discussions.
Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a collaborative, multi-stakeholder environment and a willingness to learn from feedback and mentorship.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, and maintain robust, scalable backend services and APIs using Java (versions 17 and 21) with Spring Boot, contributing to critical platforms such as Metals Orderbook, Auctionbook, STP, and other real-time services.
Build high-performance, secure, and maintainable server-side solutions, integrating with relational databases (Azure SQL Server) and NoSQL databases (MongoDB), and ensuring reliable integration with front-end applications.
Work closely with business stakeholders in the Commodities Metals domain within Capital Markets to understand requirements and translate them into effective technical solutions, with guidance from senior engineers where appropriate.
Contribute to solutions deployed across both on-premises and Azure cloud environments, applying best practices for hybrid infrastructure and modern cloud-native development.
Take ownership of backend components within projects, ensuring high code quality, maintainability, and alignment with established architectural patterns and standards.
Diagnose and resolve production issues, participating in root cause analysis and implementing fixes that improve system stability, performance, and reliability.
Actively adopt and contribute to modern DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines (TeamCity, Maven, GitHub), automated testing, and deployment processes to improve development efficiency and code quality.
Ensure backend components are developed with extensibility, security, and compliance in mind, following enterprise standards and industry best practices.
Contribute to the ongoing evolution of the backend architecture by evaluating new technologies, frameworks, and approaches, and sharing recommendations with the team.
Participate actively in code reviews, technical discussions, and design sessions, providing constructive feedback and learning from peers and senior engineers.
Continuously develop expertise in the Java ecosystem and related technologies, demonstrating a strong passion for engineering excellence and a desire to grow into broader technical and leadership responsibilities.