Job Description

Story Behind the Need:

• Business group: Canadian Digital Banking Engineering - Digital Payments - Provide microservices to mobile and web; deal with day-to-day payments, EMTs, bill payments, wallet provisioning
• Project: Open Banking Project - connecting with other banks to process day to day banking
• Candidate Value Proposition: Not only will this candidate gain experience at a big 5 bank, but they will be working daily with some of the most disruptive and emerging technologies, making a real impact on the bank and its deliverables. The ideal candidate will be part of a collaborative software engineering team working on NodeJS, Express & JavaScript, Microservices, Kafka, NoSQL, Docker, OpenShift, Kubernetes.

Typical Day in Role:

• Quickly analyze the available data and find the root cause of the problem during production issues.
• Suggest improvements to supported applications and systems as needed
• Suggest improvements to supported applications and systems as needed
• Translate ideas into technical and business realities, and map technology to business problems.
• Understanding of software quality assurance principles
• Candidate will be passionate about driving teams towards high performance and deep pride in quality craftsmanship that delights users

Bulk of role:

• Attend daily standups, work on assigned tickets, following a 2 week Sprint
• Involved in design and technical discussions

Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:

• 6+ years of experience in software development and supporting complex large-scale customer-facing platforms
• 6+ years of experience as a Nodejs developer with a preference, for web-based information technology principles, and system integration methodologies and standards.
• 6+ years of experience in building public and internal REST APIs
• Strong experience with APM tools: Dynatrace, Splunk- demonstrated in 2 recent projects
• Strong experience using Jira, Confluence, Jenkins, Bitbucket, Launch Darkly - demonstrated in 2 recent projects

Nice-To-Have Skills:

• FI / Digital banking experience is preferred but not required
• Well-rounded knowledge of Agile principles and the flexibility to adapt your experience to new and evolving environments
• Knowledge of a variety of frameworks (server-side, browser-side, desktop, etc.) as well as a high aptitude for diving in and picking up new things

Soft Skills Required:

• Excellent English verbal and written communication skills are essential
• Excellent communication skills including the ability to distill technical details into simple terms; ability to influence decision-making across stakeholders
• Excellent organizational skills and ability to manage multiple complex initiatives
• Natural Problem Solver
• The role requires leadership skills, hands-on technical experience, and a can-do approach towards environment automation/management and continuous improvement for efficiency and cost-effectiveness
• Must be reliable, proactive, results-oriented, customer-focused, and attentive to details.
• Must be flexible to adapt to a dynamic environment, and make quick and sound decisions under pressure
• Strong organizational skills, excellent problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills

Education:

• Bachelor or equivalent in computer science or related field is preferred

Best VS. Average Candidate:

• Ideal candidate has at least 6 yrs of experience on NodeJs and can work independently

Candidate Review & Selection:

• 1 round - 1 hour MS Teams video interview - HM + other team members
• 30 minutes - verbal interview probing on technical skills
• 30 minutes Codility test

Job Details

9851

Contract

6 months

Toronto