Software Engineer

Requisition ID: 243290

Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.

The Team

Contributes to the overall success of the Core Banking Engineering globally ensuring specific individual goals, plans, initiatives are executed / delivered in support of the team’s business strategies and objectives. Ensures all activities conducted are in compliance with governing regulations, internal policies and procedures.

Is this role right for you? In this role, you will:

• Ensure software reliability, observability and operational efficiency
• You dream in code and spend your free time tinkering with new technologies or building apps on the side
• Interested in the impact that financial services technology can have on people’s everyday lives
• Leading , mentoring, teaching and sharing your knowledge.
• Work on continuous integration and deployment.

Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role? – We’d love to work with you if you have:

• 6+ years of software development experience in conceptualization, design, engineering, and debugging, with at least 4 years in a hands-on role.
• You have strong experience designing and developing cloud-based APIs, with a strong understanding of scalability, security, and performance in distributed systems.
• You have hands-on work experience using Spring Boot (Microservices) with a solid background in Java/J2EE and Web Services (REST & SOAP).
• You have hands-on experience with DevOps best practices and tooling, including CI/CD, Helm, Harness, Jenkins, Kubernetes and Docker.
• You have experience integrating with third-party SaaS providers, libraries and SDKs.
• You have experience with cloud development concepts such as Docker, Kubernetes, and development experience using GCP.
• Working knowledge using Angular 2+, JavaScript, JUnit, JSON, HTML, XSL, XML is an asset.
• You have knowledge in secure coding, authentication, authorization and compliance.
• Core banking experience, especially in understanding financial systems, transaction flows, and regulatory compliance within enterprise environments.
• You’ve supported production applications, ensuring stability through incident resolution, root cause analysis, and proactive issue prevention.
• Passion about exploring emerging technologies such as AI/ML and can creatively apply them to solve business and technology challenges.
• Valuable inputs and suggestions to enhance our engineering practices.
• An Outcome-focused approach to work and problem-solving.
• University of College degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related tech field.

What's in it for you?

• We have an inclusive and collaborative working environment that encourages creativity and curiosity and celebrates success
• We provide you with the tools and technology needed to create meaningful customer experiences
• You'll get to work with and learn from diverse industry leaders, who have hailed from top technology companies around the world
• We hire you for your talent — not just a job — so you can grow with us. We’ll equip you for success not only in your role, but also in your career as a whole
• Dress codes don't apply here: being comfortable does
• Access to thousands of online and in-person courses so you can hone your current skills, or learn new ones
• A competitive rewards package that includes a base salary, a performance bonus, company matching programs on pension and profit sharing, paid vacation, personal & sick days, medical, vision, and dental and much more!

Location(s): Canada : Ontario : Toronto

Scotiabank is a leading bank in the Americas. Guided by our purpose: "for every future", we help our customers, their families and their communities achieve success through a broad range of advice, products and services, including personal and commercial banking, wealth management and private banking, corporate and investment banking, and capital markets.

At Scotiabank, we value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to the Bank, and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. If you require accommodation (including, but not limited to, an accessible interview site, alternate format documents, ASL Interpreter, or Assistive Technology) during the recruitment and selection process, please let our Recruitment team know. If you require technical assistance, please click here. Candidates must apply directly online to be considered for this role. We thank all applicants for their interest in a career at Scotiabank; however, only those candidates who are selected for an interview will be contacted.