Job Description

Senior FULL STACK Developer LEAD - AWS
Location: Toronto, downtown, hybrid
Salary: Market rate++
Looking for a Senior Full Stack Development Lead with AWS based backend experience who has hands-on experience in the development, enhancement and/or maintenance of applications in the cloud. You will translate IT requirements in the design, development, and integration of components to create fully automated and integrated solutions on the cloud.
Responsibilities

• Understand and translate business requirements in system design on client engagements.
• Translate technical concepts for non-technical audiences.
• Design, build, deploy, and maintain responsive financial web applications interfaced with an AWS cloud native backend with a focus on quality and security.
• Utilize modern architectural approaches such as microservices, serverless, and containerization.
• Provide accurate estimates for analysis, design, development, and testing phases.
• Lead, guide, and mentor junior developers to foster team growth.
• Ensure strict compliance with business, data, technical requirements, as well as coding standards and policies throughout client projects.
• Ability to troubleshoot and resolve application issues on the AWS leveraging tools such as AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, API Gateway, CloudWatch, and CloudTrail.
• Utilize agile approach for development and delivery.
• Design and develop automated unit-tests.
• Lead collaboration with other development teams.
• Lead technical design, development and integration activities.
• Ability to adapt to dynamic changing work environment and apply good judgment with the goal of delivering results.
• Ensure compliance with business, data, technical requirements and coding standards and policies in client engagements.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Minimum 8 years of experience in system design and full-stack application development, with a proven track record on complex projects.
• At least 5 years of hands-on experience in full-stack application development, with expertise in:

• Front-end: Proficiency in Angular, React, or similar frameworks, and Python for building dynamic, responsive user interfaces (i.e. Radix, Storybook).
• Back-end: Strong experience with AWS technologies for developing scalable, high-performance services using Lambda, ECS Fargate RDS, DynamoDB, Aurora.
• Strong knowledge of relational databases (Oracle, MSSQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL databases.
• Understanding how to deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications on AWS using services like Amazon ECS or Amazon EKS.
• Familiarity with DevOps principles and practices, such as Infrastructure as Code (IaC), using tools like AWS CDK and CloudFormation.
• Excellent debugging and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work independently on complex tasks.
• Strong knowledge of microservices, event-driven programming, REST-oriented API design, and Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) principles.
• Experience developing automated unit tests for applications.
• Working knowledge of Agile software development methodologies and tools (e.g., Jira).
• Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively within a team environment.
• Good overall business knowledge in financial industries (i.e., one or more in retail banking, commercial banking, capital markets, wealth management, insurance, pension fund, and fintech).
• Preferably with certification as either AWS Certified Developer or AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate.
• Strong communication, diagnostic and problem-solving skills.
• Goal oriented, able to work through ambiguity, with little oversight.
• Ability to work independently and excel in a team environment.

Skills Required