Software Engineer with Python, Scala and Spark

Scotiabank • Toronto, ON

32d • Remote

About The Position

Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture. In this exciting role, you’ll apply your analytical skills to design and develop applications that deliver excellence, effectiveness, and value to our business partners and customers.

Requirements

• 4+ years’ experience developing, deploying, and maintaining large scale applications with complex integration in production.
• 3 years of Experience with Python & Scala.
• 3 years of Experience with data engineering, real time streaming with Spark, Batch processing.
• 3 years experience with relational and non relational databases.
• 3 years’ experience reading, writing, and running SQL scripts.
• Experience with Databricks, Kubernetes, Azure and GCP.
• Experience working in an Agile environment, with experience and understanding of Test-Driven Development methodology.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering or relevant experience.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Work as a contributing member of a team.
• Values quality, while still managing expectations and deliverables.
• Open to ideas and gives and receives feedback well.
• Wants to understand financial market.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with some automated deployment.
• Understanding of networking protocols.
• Understanding of security principles.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with end users, and business teams to understand business needs, conduct gap analysis and requirements assessments as needed
• Partner with Architecture on the design and integration
• Deliver and enhance new and current solutions and applications
• Be involved in the full life cycle of a project, responsible for producing actionable and complete specifications, writing production quality code, and implementation
• Design, deliver and implement a database schema
• Design test sets and automate where possible, including functional and non functional testing, regression testing as well as performance testing
• Write deployment scripts and leverage tools such as the Accelerator pipeline to promote code.
• Support the solution in production
• Improve the end user experience by finding scalable solutions and addressing complex ad hoc queries.
• Effectively communicate with technical and non-technical audiences
• Able to work with and refactor legacy code (as needed).
• Coach and train end users (as needed).
• Participate and run SCRUM Meetings (as needed).
• You are passionate about developing applications that are reusable, efficient, and scalable, working in an innovated cross functional team environment.

Benefits

• Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Allyship
• Accessibility and Workplace Accommodations
• Remote-friendly work environment
• 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.
• Community Engagement

What This Job Offers

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