Job Description

We're building a relationship-oriented bank for the modern world. We need talented, passionate professionals who are dedicated to doing what's right for our clients.

At CIBC, we embrace your strengths and your ambitions, so you are empowered at work. Our team members have what they need to make a meaningful impact and are truly valued for who they are and what they contribute.

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What you'll be doing

You'll be a key part of an innovative, "first to market" technology culture, contributing to CIBC's digital transformation. As a Java Developer within CIBC's Remote Banking and Shared Services department, you will be part of a development team where you will build, implement, and maintain high performance and easily extendable solutions that enhance CIBC's core API Framework. You will contribute to the planning and strategy for the technical design, and development of the framework, and will perform research for the bank on new and emerging Cloud technologies and platforms.

How you'll succeed

Design and development - Act as a SME on the analysis and documentation of requirements, estimations for assigned work packages, and work with other teams for end-to-end implementation of program specific solutions. Participate in the design and development of cost-effective and innovative solutions to meet business objectives while also maintaining existing applications.

Programming Ability - Perform application programming and debugging activities: develop specifications, code, test, debug, and document solutions in order to ensure successful implementation and maintenance of programs. Use source code versioning, develop high coverage unit tests, and make use of build tools from both IDE's and the command line.

Leadership skills - Be able to work independently: take ownsership of tasks that have been assigned to you and independently follow them through to completion in a timely manner. Lead code-review sessions and ensure overall code quality aligns with business and project requirements. Monitor production and user acceptance testing to troubleshoot application issues.

Who you are

You can demonstrate industry experience. 1+ years professional experience using Object Oriented Analysis / Design, OO Design Patterns, and writing enterprise web application backends with Java. You have used a Java build tool such as Maven or Gradle, and are familiar with a source code versioning tool such as Git. You have professional experience with a Java framework such as Spring Boot.

You are formally educated. You have a degree in Computer Science or related discipline, such as Mathematics or Computer Engineering.

You know computer science fundamentals. You can demonstrate understanding of fundamental data structures and algorithms, recursion, time and space complexity, and other topics found in a university computer science curriculum.

You are excited to learn. You are willing to learn about network protocols such as HTTP/2 and TLS, the Java virtual machine (and how to extract maximum performance from it), certificates and public / private key encryption, concurrency and Java multithreading. It would be considered an asset if you have experience with Linux, Bash programming, Docker, Kubernetes, Microservice Architecture, FaaS, OAuth2, JSON Web Tokens, Istio, API Gateways, GitHub, and JIRA.

You embrace and advocate change. You'll continuously evolve your thinking and the way you work in order to deliver your best.

Your influence makes a difference. You know that relationships and networks are essential to success. You inspire outcomes by sharing your expertise.

You're motivated by collective success. You know that teamwork can transform a good idea into a great one. You know that an inclusive team that enjoys working together can bring a vision to life.

Values matter to you. You bring your real self to work and you live our values - trust, teamwork, and accountability.

What CIBC offers

At CIBC, your goals are a priority. We start with your strengths and ambitions as an employee and strive to create opportunities to tap into your potential. We aspire to give you a career, rather than just a paycheck.

We work to recognize you in meaningful, personalized ways including a competitive salary, incentive pay, banking benefits, a health benefits program, defined benefit pension plan, an employee share purchase plan and MomentMakers, our social, points-based recognition program

Our spaces and technological toolkit will make it simple to bring together great minds to create innovative solutions that make a difference for our clients

We cultivate a culture where you can express your ambition through initiatives like Purpose Day; a paid day off dedicated for you to use to invest in your growth and development

What you need to know

CIBC is committed to creating an inclusive environment where all team members and clients feel like they belong. We seek applicants with a wide range of abilities and we provide an accessible candidate experience. If you need accommodation, please contact

You need to be legally eligible to work at the location(s) specified above and, where applicable, must have a valid work or study permit.

Job Location Toronto-40 Dundas St W., 6th

Employment Type Regular

Weekly Hours 37.5

Skills

Application Development, Computer Programming, Concurrency, Data Structures, Debugging, Enterprise Web Applications, Java, Java Virtual Machine (JVM), JSON, Object-Oriented Design (OOD), Object-Oriented Programming (OOP), Software Code Quality, Unit Testing