Software Engineer II

TD•Toronto, ON

5d•Onsite

About The Position

The successful candidate will be involved in planning, analysis, design, coding, consulting & implementation on a variety of projects. Provide hands-on support and technical guidance to other developers. Contribute on architecture design decisions, as well as development tools and best practices for the team. Perform analysis, design, programming, and testing, based on SDLC methodology while adhering to bank technology standards. Technologically flexible with a strong desire and capability to learn new technologies. Competent to analyze, resolve issues/tasks independently. May be responsible for completion of an entire life cycle of application development. Work closely with Project Manager and provide input on project timelines. Work closely with Business System Analyst to translate business requirements into technical solutions. Apply analytical skills for problem solving and resolution. Conduct and participate in code reviews. Coach and mentor other team members as appropriate. Participate in knowledge transfer with the team. Evaluate new technologies to ensure currency and relevance of the solutions. Develop and document a detailed solution design within SDS, impart your subject matter expertise throughout life cycle. Participate in complex applications and systems development, programming. Produce top-notch functional, technical and user interface designs. Take business, Enterprise Architecture, system performance and development standards requirements, then develop functional, technical and user interface designs for an application and/or system. Review technical deliverables for quality throughout detailed design and development phase, identify gaps or redesign as needed. Define metrics and performance goals with technology partners and peers. Respect TD's technology delivery practices and standards, project management disciplines, business technology architecture, and risk and production capacity – this includes thorough project requirements, documentation, scope estimates and costs. Deliver effective and efficient solutions by meeting milestones and ensuring project deliverables are on time, within budget, and adhere to the corporate quality and security standards. Identify ways to minimize cost, play a role in introducing strategic solutions to support cost effectiveness and enhance stakeholder experience. Conduct code reviews to address quality, standards compliance, reusability and ease of maintenance, Operational Readiness Reviews, and support gating and review sign-offs for solution design. Provide technical support to promptly resolve escalated incidents/outages.

Requirements

University or Post-Graduate Degree.
Strong academic background (e.g., computer science, engineering).
At least 5 years’ experience with substantial project work in software development.
Able to adapt Agile processes and changing business needs.
Strong knowledge in Spring related frameworks and Java 8.
Know when to use DevOps and CI/CD to maximize your own productivity or for your squad’s productivity.
Solid experience, knowledge and skills in your own discipline.
Advanced knowledge of specific domain or range of engineering frameworks, technology, tools, processes and procedures, as well as organization issues.
Advanced knowledge of the business, its standards, applications, systems, networks, innovation, design activities, best practices.
Ability to work independently under minimal guidance.
Subject matter expertise and ability to share with less experienced colleagues.
Capacity and confidence to solve complex problems and take a new perspective on existing solutions.
Design – Domain-driven design, microservices design patterns
Languages & Frameworks – Spring Boot / Spring MVC / Restful API / Java 8 and above, PL/SQL
Database – MS SQL/ Oracle/ MySQL/ PostgreSQL/ NoSQL
Message: MQ
Other Tools & Scripts – Maven/Gradle, Confluence, Swagger
Hands-on Experience in DevOps and CI/CD

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of Collateral Management and Margining would be an added advantage.

Responsibilities

Planning, analysis, design, coding, consulting & implementation on a variety of projects.
Provide hands-on support and technical guidance to other developers.
Contribute on architecture design decisions, as well as development tools and best practices for the team.
Perform analysis, design, programming, and testing, based on SDLC methodology while adhering to bank technology standards.
Analyze, resolve issues/tasks independently.
May be responsible for completion of an entire life cycle of application development.
Work closely with Project Manager and provide input on project timelines.
Work closely with Business System Analyst to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
Apply analytical skills for problem solving and resolution.
Conduct and participate in code reviews.
Coach and mentor other team members as appropriate.
Participate in knowledge transfer with the team.
Evaluate new technologies to ensure currency and relevance of the solutions.
Develop and document a detailed solution design within SDS, impart subject matter expertise throughout life cycle.
Participate in complex applications and systems development, programming.
Produce top-notch functional, technical and user interface designs.
Take business, Enterprise Architecture, system performance and development standards requirements, then develop functional, technical and user interface designs for an application and/or system.
Review technical deliverables for quality throughout detailed design and development phase, identify gaps or redesign as needed.
Define metrics and performance goals with technology partners and peers.
Respect TD's technology delivery practices and standards, project management disciplines, business technology architecture, and risk and production capacity.
Deliver effective and efficient solutions by meeting milestones and ensuring project deliverables are on time, within budget, and adhere to the corporate quality and security standards.
Identify ways to minimize cost, play a role in introducing strategic solutions to support cost effectiveness and enhance stakeholder experience.
Conduct code reviews to address quality, standards compliance, reusability and ease of maintenance, Operational Readiness Reviews, and support gating and review sign-offs for solution design.
Provide technical support to promptly resolve escalated incidents/outages.