Java developer

Location Address : 2201 Eglinton Ave East Ecosystem 3 (2201EE-Ecosystem 3)

Hybrid : 3 days / week in-office (with potential increase to 4 days in future)

Anchor days : Monday, Wednesday and Thursday

Contract Duration : 03 / 02 / 2026 to 11 / 29 / 2026

Possibility of extension : Yes, based on performance and business needs

Schedule Hours : 9am-5pm Monday-Friday;standard 37.5 hrs / week

Project : The Retail Lending Technologies team supports the enhancement, development, and maintenance of corporate applications and banking systems within Canadian Banking. Retail Lending systems are Critical Information Assets of the bank that support Automotive Lending, Branch Direct Lending and Credit Insurance products and Business Lines. 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.

Responsibilities :

• 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.
• Provide system analysis, object-oriented design / programming, technical 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.

Must have skills :

1) At least 10 years of technical working experience in systems analysis, design, development, unit testing, and debugging.

2) 10+ years of experience as Java developer

3) Must have technical working experience with Core Java (Version 8 or higher) / Java Servlet / JDBC / JavaScript;Spring Boot (Spring MVC, Spring Security and Spring Data Repositories),

4) Recent hands on experience with HTML;CSS;jQuery, Bootstrap, AngularJS, UNIX shell scripting;Web Services and Restful APIs, Microservices, SQL & relational databases

5) 5+ years of recent experience with the use of Bit Bucket, GIT, Gradle, Jira, Confluence or a similar tool(s) for building Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI / CD) pipelines.

6) Technical working experience in an agile environment.

Nice to have :

1) 2-3 years of working experience in the banking / financial services industry.

2) Technical working knowledge of WebServices, XML / SOAP / REST, IBM Websphere Application Server (WAS);Eclipse Integrated Development Environment (IDE);IBM Rational Application Developer (RAD);SoapUI;WinSCP (Windows Secure Copy);PuTTY SCP (PSCP);Secure Shell (SSH)

3) Technical knowledge of Microsoft Azure Cloud or Google Cloud is an asset.

4) Technical knowledge of Splunk, Dynatrace, or Stackdriver is an asset.

Education :

Best VS. Average Candidate :

Best candidate will be an experienced Java developer with recent experience with banking and FI industry. In addition to all the must have and nice to have skill set mention, previous experience with GCP is highly preferred.