Software Engineer II

TD•Toronto, ON

2d•CA$81,600 - CA$115,200•Onsite

About The Position

TD is seeking a Software Engineer II to join their Technology Solutions team in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. This role involves developing new solutions, features, and performing unit/component testing for application development initiatives. The engineer will support business activities through enhancements and break/fix implementations, potentially including peer code reviews. Collaboration with technology partners is key to ensure custom components meet application requirements and performance goals. The role requires analyzing technical requirements, recommending engineering solutions, and estimating coding efforts. The engineer will also work with stakeholders to ensure engineering solutions align with technical direction, performance, time-to-market, and innovation goals. Monitoring product lifecycles, documenting system components, and participating in quality management reviews are also part of the responsibilities. The role involves creating and maintaining quality code, ensuring defect-free programming, and providing post-production support. Technical expertise during incident management, including impact assessment and communication, is expected. The engineer will assist in developing and maintaining processes for issue prevention and participate in problem determination and resolution. Additionally, the role involves adhering to enterprise frameworks, managing programs and policies, and collaborating with stakeholders to proactively prevent defects. Continuous improvement, automation, and cost minimization are encouraged. The engineer will conduct code reviews, monitor service and productivity, and implement process improvements. Leading remediation plans for performance, risk, or governance issues, managing relationships with business lines and control functions, and escalating non-standard, high-risk activities are also required. Staying updated on emerging issues, trends, and regulatory requirements is essential. Maintaining a culture of risk management and control is a core aspect of the role. Teamwork, supporting a positive work environment, knowledge transfer, and staying current with industry trends are expected. The engineer will participate in personal development activities, keep others informed of project status, mentor team members, and provide guidance. Leading and motivating relationships with business partners and stakeholders to develop productive working relationships is important. Contributing to a fair, positive, and equitable environment that supports a diverse workforce and acting as a brand ambassador are also key aspects of the role. The position requires advanced knowledge of specific domains or a range of engineering frameworks, technology, tools, processes, and procedures, as well as organizational issues. The engineer will perform complex to difficult technical tasks independently, possess advanced knowledge of technology, tools, various programming languages, processes, and procedures, and develop program specifications. They will adapt, integrate, code, test, and debug programs, and execute these tasks. The role involves using existing procedures to solve routine problems with limited exceptions and generally reporting to a Practice Lead.

Requirements

Undergraduate degree, Postgraduate degree or Technical Certificate
Strong academic background (e.g., computer science, engineering)
3-5 years relevant experience
Advanced knowledge of specific domain or range of engineering frameworks, technology, tools, processes and procedures, as well as organization issues
Performs complex to difficult technical tasks independently
Advanced knowledge of technology, tools, various programming languages, processes, and procedures
Develops program specifications; adapts, integrates, codes, tests and debugs programs; and is responsible for executing
Uses existing procedures to solve routine problems; makes limited exceptions
Generally reports to a Practice lead

Responsibilities

Develop new solutions as required for engineering programs and projects within assigned area.
Develop new features and perform unit / component test for new application development initiatives aligned to business needs and in accordance with technology architecture standards.
Support business enquiries and business activities through execution of small enhancements and break / fix implementations (e.g. source code changes).
May also be responsible for peer code review.
Work with technology partners to ensure the configuration and custom components meet application requirements and performance goals.
Analyze the technical requirements to recommend pragmatic and sound engineering specific solutions for own area, may be involved in coding/story estimates.
Work with other stakeholders, internal technology partners to ensure engineering solutions meet technical direction, requirements, performance, time-to-market and innovation goals.
Monitor product lifecycles, ensuring specifications and functionality support business objectives and engineering decisions, undertaking re-development where required.
Document and verify system components, applications, system infrastructure, security, integration, operability and engineering related architecture designs associated with a program or project.
Participate in quality management reviews, in particular reviews of the designs, prototypes and other requirements work products to ensure they fulfill the requirements.
Create and maintain quality code, ensure defect free programming consistent with standards; provide code maintenance and support during testing cycles and post-production deployment and participate in reviewing peer coding.
Provide technical expertise during Incident management, analyze incident reports and outages, perform impact assessment for incidents and facilitate internal and external communication throughout incident resolution.
Participate in identifying and recommending development / testing solutions / tools in support of project / application objectives.
Assist in the development / maintenance of comprehensive processes for prevention of issues and participate in problem determination and timely resolution of incidents applying appropriate quality measures.
Adhere to enterprise frameworks or methodologies that relate to software engineering activities.
Ensure respective programs/ policies/practices are well managed, meets business needs, complies with internal and external requirements, and aligns with business priorities.
Collaboratively engage with relevant stakeholders at all levels, both internal and external, to shift from finding defects to proactively preventing defects.
Actively seek and support continuous improvement and automation opportunities within the engineering practice.
Conduct meaningful analysis at the functional or enterprise level using results to draw conclusions, make recommendations, assess the effectiveness of programs/ policies/ practices.
Identify opportunities to minimize cost, provide recommendations and/or deliver corresponding strategic solutions to support cost effectiveness and to enhance stakeholder experience.
Conduct code reviews to ensure adherence to quality, standards compliance, reusability and ease of maintenance, Operational Readiness Reviews, and supporting gating and review sign-offs for solution design.
Monitor service, productivity and assess efficiency levels within own function and implement continuous process / performance improvements where opportunities exists.
Lead / facilitate and/or implement actions / remediation plans to address performance / risk /governance issues.
Actively manage relationships within and across various business lines, corporate and/or control functions and ensure alignment with enterprise and/or regulatory requirements.
Protect the interests of the organization – identify and manage risks, and escalate non-standard, high risk activities as necessary.
Keep abreast of emerging issues, trends, and evolving regulatory requirements and assess potential impacts.
Maintain a culture of risk management and control, supported by effective processes in alignment with risk appetite.
Participate fully as a member of the team, support a positive work environment that promotes service to the business, quality, innovation and teamwork and ensure timely communication of issues/ points of interest.
Provide thought leadership and/or industry knowledge for quality engineering best practices and participate in knowledge transfer within the team and business unit.
Keep current on emerging trends/ developments and grow knowledge of the business, related tools and techniques.
Participate in personal performance management and development activities, including cross training within own team.
Keep others informed and up-to-date about the status / progress of projects and / or all relevant or useful information related to day-to-day activities.
Actively mentors and enables team members by sharing knowledge and leveraging engineering best practices.
Supports the team by providing guidance and proactively identifying and resolving issues.
Lead, motivate and develop relationships with internal and external business partners / stakeholders to develop productive working relationships.
Contribute to a fair, positive and equitable environment that supports a diverse workforce.
Act as a brand ambassador for your business area/function and the bank, both internally and/or externally.