Senior Java Software Engineer

Description

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We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Java Software Engineer to join our team and develop, maintain, and enhance robust solutions involving API and backend components. This is a hands-on role, focused on delivering high-quality solutions to design, develop, enhance and maintain APIs and microservices using Java and Spring Boot. The ideal candidate has deep technical expertise, a collaborative spirit, and experience working with Azure/multi-cloud environments.

Customer

• Design, develop, and maintain end-to-end solutions across backend (Java/Spring Boot) and RESTful APIs.
• Architect and deliver scalable applications and services, ensuring performance, security, and maintainability.
• Collaborate with technology partners and business stakeholders to ensure solutions meet requirements, technical direction, and business goals.
• Develop new features, perform unit/component testing, and provide technical leadership in implementing and integrating backend and API solutions.
• Analyze requirements and propose pragmatic solutions, using sound engineering judgment and aligning to best practices and architecture standards.
• Ensure Azure cloud deployment, EDP pipeline usage, and automation tooling are seamlessly integrated into the development process.
• Provide technical support during incident management, assist with troubleshooting, debugging, and root cause analysis across the stack.
• Document and verify system components, design technical specifications, and maintain detailed documentation for APIs, infrastructure, and business logic.
• Support innovation by quickly prototyping (POC) new technologies and frameworks when required.

Shareholder

• Adhere to enterprise frameworks and software engineering methodologies.
• Ensure compliance with internal and external policies, standards, and quality requirements.
• Participate in identifying and recommending automation, testing, and deployment solutions that drive efficiency and reusability.
• Actively seek opportunities for continuous improvement within engineering practices.
• Conduct meaningful technical analysis, provide actionable recommendations, and support effective decision-making.
• Participate in code reviews to ensure maintainability, security, and operational readiness of delivered solutions.
• Monitor service and productivity levels, implement performance improvements where opportunities exist.
• Manage resource requirements and assignment, ensuring project milestones are met and monitoring to keep projects on schedule and within budget
• Protect the interests of the organization – identify and manage risks, and escalate non-standard, high risk transactions / activities as necessary
• Maintain a culture of risk management and control, supported by effective processes in alignment with risk appetite

Employee/Team

• Actively mentor and coach junior developers, share knowledge, and support a culture of growth and learning.
• Foster a positive, collaborative, and innovative work environment that values diversity, equity, and inclusion.
• Keep current on emerging trends, technologies, and best practices, and encourage continuous learning across the team.
• Participate in personal development and cross-training, supporting performance management and team building.
• Demonstrate strong communication and documentation skills, and support knowledge transfer within and across teams.

Breadth & Depth

• Advanced knowledge and hands-on experience with backend frameworks (Spring Boot), languages (Java), and cloud (Microsoft Azure, EDP pipelines).
• Familiarity with front-end frameworks (Angular, React) and integration with backend APIs.
• Proficiency with build and automation tools (Maven), containerization (Docker), caching (REDIS), and Linux environments.
• Demonstrated experience developing, maintaining, and enhancing RESTful APIs.
• Ability to quickly proof-of-concept (POC) new technologies and approaches.
• Experience designing and programming relational databases.
• Familiarity with OpenAI APIs and prompt flow is an asset.

Qualifications and Experience

• 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience.
• Strong proficiency in Java
• Advanced skills developing with Spring Boot
• Strong understanding of API design principles including REST, idempotency, error handling, pagination, versioning
• Ability to design, implement and maintain RESTful APIs that integrate across multiple systems
• Solid understanding of API security best practices including OAuth2, JWT
• Experience addressing performance and scalability in high volume systems
• Hands-on experience deploying solutions to cloud environments including Microsoft Azure
• Experience deploying to JBoss environments
• Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, automated builds and deployment practices
• Experience with REDIS, relational database programming
• Extensive experience using GitHub and Bitbucket
• Experience with Maven, Linux and Git
• Experience with MQ and a solid understanding of messaging concepts including queues, topics, persistence
• Experience with SQL including writing complex queries, joins, and subqueries
• Experience with SQL query optimization and performance tuning
• Experience with observability and monitoring tools (Datadog, Dynatrace, Splunk)
• Strong problem-solving, analytical, and troubleshooting abilities.
• Strong mentoring, collaboration, and documentation skills.

Who We Are:

TD is one of the world's leading global financial institutions and is the fifth largest bank in North America by branches/stores. Every day, we strive to make every interaction, product, and experience remarkably human and refreshingly simple for over 27 million households and businesses in Canada, the United States and around the world. More than 95,000 TD colleagues bring their skills, talent, and creativity to foster deeper relationships, ensure disciplined execution, and build a simpler, faster banking experience. TD is deeply committed to being a leader in client experience, that is why we believe that all colleagues, no matter where they work, are client facing. Together, we are reimagining what banking can be for our clients, colleagues and communities.

Our Total Rewards Package
Our Total Rewards package reflects the investments we make in our colleagues to help them and their families achieve their financial, physical, and mental well-being goals. Total Rewards at TD includes a base salary, variable compensation, and several other key plans such as health and well-being benefits, savings and retirement programs, paid time off, banking benefits and discounts, career development, and reward and recognition programs.

Additional Information:
We’re delighted that you’re considering building a career with TD. Through regular development conversations, training programs, and a competitive benefits plan, we’re committed to providing the support our colleagues need to thrive both at work and at home.

Please be advised that this job opportunity is subject to provincial regulation for employment purposes. It is imperative to acknowledge that each province or territory within the jurisdiction of Canada may have its own set of regulations, requirements.

Colleague Development

If you’re interested in a specific career path or are looking to build certain skills, we want to help you succeed. You’ll have regular career, development, and performance conversations with your manager, as well as access to an online learning platform and a variety of mentoring programs to help you unlock future opportunities.

If you’re passionate about helping clients and building deep, lasting relationships, TD offers diverse career paths where you can grow your expertise and make a meaningful impact.

We're committed to your success and foster a respectful workplace where diverse perspectives are valued, everyone has fair opportunities to grow, and you can unlock your full potential to achieve your career goals. Here at TD, we hire and develop the best.

Training & Onboarding
We will provide training and onboarding sessions to ensure that you’ve got everything you need to succeed in your new role.

Interview Process
We’ll reach out to candidates of interest to schedule an interview. We do our best to communicate outcomes to all applicants by email or phone call.

Accommodation
Your accessibility is important to us. Please let us know if you’d like accommodations (including accessible meeting rooms, captioning for virtual interviews, etc.) to help us remove barriers so that you can participate throughout the interview process.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Language Requirement (Quebec only):

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