Senior C# Engineer, TD Securities

TD•Toronto, ON

5d•CA$126,800 - CA$164,100•Onsite

About The Position

We are looking for a Senior Engineer to join the Equity Derivatives Technology Team and embrace a broad range of tasks associated with developing application and systems solutions to address business challenges. Successful applicants will design and develop technological solutions for key stakeholders, primarily Trading, across the Equity Derivatives Technology platform. The role involves solutioning and development supporting Trading across multiple asset classes, including market and reference data enrichment for these assets. Responsibilities also include delivering non-functional enhancements (e.g., performance and stability improvements) to the technology stack, incorporating new products, enhancing existing risk system capabilities, and contributing to the evolution of our future state architecture. A strong focus is placed on engineering excellence, including writing high-quality, well-tested code, maintaining and improving code coverage, and developing automated unit, integration, and regression tests as part of the continuous delivery pipeline. The team employs an agile development methodology and work is prioritized by our stakeholders on an ongoing "just in time" basis. A strong emphasis is placed on software engineering skills. Collaboration is critical to success in this role. Candidates must demonstrate strong communication skills, a collaborative mindset, and the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams. Candidates are also expected to comply with the bank's in-office requirements. Meaningful work is fueled by meaningful performance and career development conversations with your manager.

Requirements

Undergraduate Degree or Technical Certificate.
7+ years of solid hands-on C# programming experience on the Microsoft stack.
C++ knowledge is helpful (our model wrappers are in C++)
Experience with Node.js for scripting and services
Working with Capital markets FO domain (preferably equity derivatives) is strongly preferred.
Web knowledge is beneficial (our UI is Angular but web app experience in general is appreciated
DBs: Oracle / Mongo
Middleware exposure is useful e.g. MQ / Redis Cache / Kafka.
DevOps knowledge/experience is useful.
Azure or Google cloud knowledge/experience is also useful since we anticipate more cloud based work in the future.
Experience in Equity Derivative technology teams and equity derivatives knowledge is a big plus.
Readiness and motivation (as senior or lead developer and valued subject matter expert) to address and resolve highly complex and multifaceted development-related issues, often independently.
Strength in coaching and advising clients, partners and project teams.
Commitment to and belief in the quality of your deliverables.
Strong verbal, written, presentation & communication skills.
Proactive, organized, excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
Works well independently, as well as, within a team.
Financial experience is a strong asset.

Nice To Haves

Experience in Equity Derivative technology teams and equity derivatives knowledge is a big plus.

Responsibilities

Transform business requirements and research into winning delivery solutions that meet performance goals.
Full stack development from UI (web technologies) to app services.
Perform systems administration: monitor, configure, back-up, authenticate, tune.
Aim for defect-free programming, create and maintain quality code, provide support during testing cycles and post-production deployment, engage in peer code reviews.
Contribute to project plans, estimations and status updates.
Identify issues, develop and maintain processes that address and resolve them, (and be sure to communicate/alert stakeholders as needed).
Primarily focus on day-to-day activities.
Make enhancements and troubleshoot.
Configure and develop custom components with technology partners (analysts, developers, designers etc.) to meet requirements and goals.
Ensure applications are free of common coding vulnerabilities (and follow standard security practices).
Proactively put forward ideas that speak to project objectives (e.g. development, testing solutions, and tools).
Complete unit and integration testing per standards and design specs.
Take part in scope assessment, risk and cost analysis.
Respect TD's technology delivery practices and standards, project management disciplines.
Stay on top of state-of-health monitoring and monthly SLA targets.
Apply and share technical expertise during incident management life cycle (e.g. analyzes reports and outages, perform impact assessments, facilitate stakeholder communication).
Demonstrate high level of proactivity and strong ownership.
Play technical leadership role and guide other team members.
Communicate effectively both inside and outside the team to achieve results and build strong relationships.
Develop a good understanding of Market Risk management processes in the Banking business.