Senior Systems Developer

Why you’ll love working here :

high-performance, people-focused culture

our commitment that equity, diversity, and inclusion are fundamental to our work environment and business success, which helps employees feel valued and empowered to be their authentic selves

membership in HOOPP’s world class defined benefit pension plan, which can serve as an important part of your retirement security

competitive, 100% company-paid extended health and dental benefits for permanent employees, including coverage supporting our team's diversity and mental health gender affirmation, fertility and drug treatment, psychological support benefits of $2,500 per year, and newly extended maternity / parental leave top of 26 weeks)

optional post-retirement health and dental benefits subsidized at 50%

yoga classes, meditation workshops, nutritional consultations, and wellness seminars

access to an annual wellness reimbursement program for health and wellness-related expenses for permanent and temporary employees

the opportunity to make a difference and help take care of those who care for us, by providing a financially secure retirement for Ontario healthcare workers

Job Summary

Are you a bold, quick-thinking and driven individual seeking the growth and challenge that comes from working with collaborative teams for a dynamic company?

Are you intrinsically passionate as a change agent, influencer of growth and have the desire to move the needle?

If you feel satisfaction at seeing your team’s ideas and dreams become reality and answered yes to any of these questions, we want to hear from you!

The IT Investment Solutions Group at HOOPP (Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan) is looking for an experienced individual to fill a permanent, fulltime Sr.

Systems Developer role to holistically supporting HOOPP Investment activities.

The group’s principles are focused on delivering true customer value in a dynamic and fast-paced environment. They value challenging the status quo, innovative solutions, team collaboration and practicality.

What you will do :

Work closely with your product owner(s) and business users to understand business problems, and design cost effective solutions

Participate in design sessions, code reviews, and support the community of developers on the team

Develop standards, patterns, and practices to improve the craft of software development in the department

Negotiate system architecture with other development teams for projects spanning many systems

Actively participate in Agile Scrum practices such as providing input to the team product roadmap, daily standups, backlog refinement, planning and sprint retrospectives

Contribute during design and planning meetings, write wiki articles and participate in issue and team retrospectives

Provide technical coaching and mentorship in conjunction with team development lead

Create a safe, supportive and participatory environment that produces ongoing mutual respect

Ask powerful questions, create awareness and guide individuals and groups in exploring options and deciding what to do

Design, build, and support new features and participate in issue resolution across our entire software stack

Prioritize technical improvements to create sustainable software

Participate in the application support rotation schedule. Our application support hours straddle 9 to 5. No calls in the middle of the night!

Diagnose production issues spanning multiple systems and technologies and work with associated team to resolve those issues

Quickly learn, evaluate, and apply new concepts and technologies

Who you are :

10+ years of experience as a full stack developer

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering or equivalent

Ability to support teammates through mentoring and coaching.

Using an agile methodology and Azure DevOps for tracking work.

Proficiency with JAVA and .net .

2+ years of front-end development experience with Angular 7+, React or skilled with HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Typescript

Extensive knowledge of frameworks / technologies such as Spring Framework (Boot, Cloud), Hibernate / JPA, MQ Message (RabbitMQ / Kafka), Redis, RESTful and JUnit / TestNG

Knowledge of SQL

Experience with system design monolith vs microservice)

Able to design and complete complex software enhancements proficiently with a high level of quality.

Has experience in code reviews and business / technical discussions.

You’re obsessed with learning about software development and new tech stack.

2+ years of experience with Cloud (AWS,GCP,Azure).

2+ years of experience with data pipelines using Snowflake and cloud technologies.