Software Engineer

Scotiabank • Toronto, ON

14d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Automotive Lending Technologies team supports the enhancement, development, and maintenance of corporate applications and banking systems within Canadian Banking. Automotive Lending systems are Critical Information Assets of the bank and support the Automotive Lending business line. As a member of a full stack team, duties performed will include implementation and operational support. The applicant should possess excellent problem-solving skills, who can technically troubleshoot issues/problems independently and provide solutions. The applicant must possess the ability to work with technology focused peers, Business Clients, and Operations Teams on multiple projects concurrently. For this role the candidate should ideally have worked on agile and waterfall projects in the past and be capable of thriving in a fast paced, challenging work environment and demonstrate initiative and eagerness to learn. The role is accountable for driving software engineering excellence, ensuring application stability, managing software currency and vulnerability remediation, and leading modernization initiatives aligned to business and risk objectives. This position plays a critical role as a technical “fixer” and escalation point, ensuring timely resolution of complex issues while maintaining compliance with enterprise standards.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related discipline.
• At least 5 years of technical working experience in systems analysis, design, development, unit testing, and debugging.
• Working experience in the use of Bit Bucket, GIT, Gradle, Jira, Confluence or a similar tool(s) for building Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.
• Technical working experience in an agile environment.
• Must have technical working experience with C#, .NET Core / .NET Framework, ASP.NET, REST API, and some of the following: Messaging/Data Streaming such as RMQ and Kafka, HTML; CSS; jQuery, Bootstrap, React, TypeScript, Windows shell scripting
• Technical knowledge of XML, XSD, JSON, JWE
• Technical working knowledge of WebServices, XML/SOAP/REST, VS Code, Visual Studio; Swagger, PostMan, OpenSSL
• Experience in Node.js development, with hands-on experience across both backend and frontend applications.
• Solid understanding of software development best practices, including secure coding, quality assurance, and integration methodologies.
• Proficiency with both SQL databases.

Nice To Haves

• Ideally, you have 2-3 years of working experience in the banking/financial services industry.
• Technical knowledge of Microsoft Azure Cloud or Google Cloud is an asset.
• Technical knowledge of Splunk, Dynatrace.

Responsibilities

• Documentation, and support for existing applications and systems.
• Provide recommendations on best practices and enhancements that are in line with the bank’s technology road map.
• Work with project team to refine technical requirements and provide technical design and guidance based on industry best practices.
• Perform coding, unit testing, debugging, documenting and implementing of applications and scripts.
• Participate in estimation and planning of development efforts required for various projects and enhancements.
• Maintain, support and enhance existing applications.
• Participate in regular code reviews for release activities.
• Lead the implementation efforts for implementations of code to production.
• Participate in production issue analysis and perform root cause analysis for production issues and implementation issues.
• Assist the product owners and business analysts in discovering the current system behavior and provide recommendations on improving the current system.
• Drive modernization initiatives (Cloud, microservices, API Enablement, automation) and lead migration activities, particularly request and building new cloud infrastructure to lift and shift technologies to new infrastructure.

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level