Senior Software Engineer

Scotiabank • Toronto, ON

13d • Onsite

About The Position

You will be a member of the AI Engineering and Labs team focused on designing and implementing innovative, intelligent software solutions across the Bank’s business lines. Your role will be an integral part of the organization’s AI strategy dedicated to creating value for the Bank and its customers. You will work closely with teams of data scientists, data engineers, product managers, and other software engineers to understand global business partner challenges and processes in order to turn those insights into working software solutions.

Requirements

• A university degree in a relevant STEM discipline (Electrical/Computer/Software Engineering, Computer Sciences, Mathematics).
• Significant experience in software engineering, system design, and integration.
• Experience developing large applications (Python and microservice architecture are strongly preferred).
• Experience working with databases and key-value data stores (e.g., PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB).
• Experience using a message broker-like service (e.g., RabbitMQ, Kafka, bonus points for GCP Pub/Sub).
• Concrete understanding of HTTP, REST API design and familiarity with other common networking standards and protocols.
• Experience with Python, particularly FastApi, Gemini (or any LLM Provider) API development, Asyncio/multiprocess management tooling is strongly preferred.
• Experience with Docker/Docker Compose, Kubernetes, GCP are a very strong plus.
• Experience writing/maintaining Helm Charts (preferable) and working with other IT Automation software (e.g., Ansible, Terraform) is a very strong plus.
• Experience with building/using CI/CD pipelines (e.g., ArgoWF/ArgoCD) is a plus.
• Modern JavaScript skills, and experience working with NodeJS, Express, React/Redux and toolsets (Webpack, Babel, Jest) are a plus.
• Experience using Linux and proficiency with DevOps and tooling.
• Consistent use of version control (e.g., git).

Responsibilities

• Taking ownership of your work, with great attention to detail, and pride in delivering scalable, robust, and polished products to the end users.
• Gathering and refining business requirements and transforming them into concise technical specifications.
• Performing independent research, and designing efficient solutions which meet specifications, and adhere to the industry's best practices and organizational policies.
• Being an excellent verbal and written communicator who likes to share ideas with the team and who makes it a practice to document designs, deliverables, as well as any other pertinent information such as operational and support runbooks and processes.
• Being a voracious learner who likes to take on new challenges, while simultaneously taking pride in continuous improvement of existing software products, with the goal of providing an outstanding service for our customers.
• Deriving insights out of data and applying them to address business opportunities.

Benefits

• Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Allyship
• Accessibility and Workplace Accommodations
• Upskilling through online courses, cross-functional development opportunities, and tuition assistance.
• Competitive Rewards program including bonus, flexible vacation, personal, sick days and benefits will start on day one.
• Free tea & coffee, universal washrooms, and lots of space for team collaboration.
• Opportunities for community engagement & belonging with our various programs.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree