Job Description

Company Overview

Our Values
At TD we\'re guided by our purpose is to enrich the lives of our customers, communities and colleagues, and share a set of values that shape our culture and guide our behavior. In exchange for how our colleagues show up to help TD succeed, we are committed to delivering a colleague experience grounded in Impact, Growth and a Culture of Care. No matter where you work across TD, we empower you to make an impact at work and in your community, explore and grow your career and be part of our caring and inclusive culture.

Making Your Well-being a Priority
A caring and supportive culture that promotes colleague well-being is core to who we are. At TD, we focus on total well-being with extensive programs to help colleagues assess, manage, and improve their well-being across four core pillars - physical, financial, social and mental/emotional. In addition, we champion a safe, inclusive and supportive work environment to help colleagues feel a sense of belonging, and supported in their personal and professional growth. Through our focus on total well-being, we know that we can help our colleagues thrive, contribute to our culture of care, and support better business outcomes \xe2\x80\xa6 because when colleagues feel their best, they\'re more likely to do their best.

Our Total Rewards Package
Our Total Rewards package reflects the investment we make in our colleagues to help them, and their families achieve their 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 including medical, dental, vision & mental health coverage, savings and retirement programs, paid time off, banking benefits and discounts, career development, and reward and recognition programs.

How We Work
At TD, we believe in-person connections fuel collaboration and collective creativity. Our workplace experience empowers colleagues to do great work side-by-side at TD locations, while offering flexibility to work remotely where it makes sense for the work and team. Our teams work in one of three workplace models: hybrid, onsite and primarily remote. Wherever our colleagues are working, they\'ll always have access to the TD community and experience our culture of care.

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. Every day, we deliver legendary customer experiences to 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 the Bank, those we serve, and the economies we support. We are guided by our vision to Be the Better Bank and our purpose to enrich the lives of our customers, communities and colleagues. TD is a customer obsessed organization, and we are deeply committed to being a leader in customer experience, that is why we believe that all colleagues, no matter where they work, are customer facing. As we build our business and deliver on our strategy, we are innovating to enhance the customer experience and build capabilities to shape the future of banking. Whether you\'ve got years of banking experience or are just starting your career in financial services, we can help you realize your potential. Through regular leadership and development conversations to mentorship and training programs, we\'re here to support you towards your goals. As an organization, we keep growing - and so will you.

Department Overview

Building a World-Class, Diverse and Inclusive Technology Team at TD

We can\'t afford to be boring. Neither can you. The scale and scope of what TD does may surprise you. The rapid pace of change makes it a business imperative for us to be smart and open-minded in the way we think about technology. TD\'s technology and business teams become more intertwined as new opportunities present themselves. This new era in banking does not equal boring. Not at TD, anyway.

The TDS Core Services team is the cross-asset pricing and risk management platform for TD Securities. TDS Core Services is also the strategic storage and compute infrastructure for numerous business-aligned products used by front office users as well as risk management functions in the Investment Bank.

These products include many user-facing applications used for real-time risk, scenario risk, electronic trading, and scalable data analytics and are utilized by a variety of users including traders, desk managers, risk managers, and sales teams.

As a Senior Software Engineer for the TDS Services Platform you are expected to build and evolve a variety of custom software and hardware solutions that enable these products and ensure their future growth and viability from an architectural and technical perspective. These components will in-turn have a direct and tangible impact on the bottom line of all products and business areas that depend on them.

There\'s room to grow in all of it.

Job Requirements

What can you bring to TD? Share your credentials, but your relevant experience and knowledge can be just as likely to get our attention. It helps if you have:

Technology

The TDS Services Platform is predominantly a system composed of numerous microservices built on open source technologies. We pride ourselves on leveraging modern tools and technologies that best solve our business problems.

The technology stack that is in place today utilizes the likes of:

• Java, Scala and Golang for general purpose programming
• Apache Cassandra, Apache HBase and Apache Druid for data storage
• Apache Kafka for streaming and distribution
• React for UI development
• Google Protocol Buffers for serialization
• Graphite, Grafana and DataDog for metrics
• Linux as the operating system
• EnvoyProxy for network services.

Desired Qualifications

• University or Post-Graduate Degree.
• 10+ years of experience
• Solid understanding of data structures and algorithms
• Proficient in asynchronous and concurrent programming
• Solid understanding of various approaches to data storage
• Network programming experience
• Experience building large scale distributed systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
• Solid understanding of test-driven development and familiarity with best-of-breed tools and technologies
• In-depth understanding of the Linux operating system
• Ability to work independently
• Experience leading projects a plus

Desired Interpersonal Skills

• Takes great personal pride in building robust software
• Strong sense of ownership
• Passionate about programming and computer science
• Has excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Has strong customer focus

Hours

37.5

Job Details

About This Role

A Senior Software Engineer will contribute to the design and development of a variety of tools and technologies that are part of our streaming data infrastructure which includes market observable quotes, trade transactions, reference data and distribution of events to a variety of user interfaces.

These are components where performance and scalability really count and they are heavily relied on by some of the most utilized products on the TDS Veritas Platform namely Transparency Pricing (electronic trading), Transparency Trader (real-time risk), and Transparency Dealer (quoting).

Software Engineers take part in the development and design of new features and components as we continue to broaden the scope of the platform to other product areas and will ensure that the technical infrastructure continues to scale with the ever-increasing demands of the business for years to come.

Meaningful work is fueled by meaningful performance and career development conversations with your manager. Here\'s some of what you may be asked to perform:

• Apply your deep technology expertise to ensure that all areas across the organization that touch various technologies have the necessary tools, processes and documentation they need to operate effectively.
• Execute on TD Technology\'s engineering strategy as it relates to the introduction of tools and the automation of build, test, release and configuration across application, platforms and infrastructure.
• Partner with Operations to automatically integrate with appropriate tools and processes as part of automated/self-serve application, platform or Infrastructure releases.
• Apply an in-depth understanding of relevant business needs and work with technology partners to identify and leverage synergies across the various areas.
• Draw on best practices and your knowledge of internal and external business issues to improve products or services.
• Monitor and control costs associated with the work you do.
• Be prepared to collaborate with governance and control groups (e.g. regulatory and operational risk, compliance and audit), provide your subject matter expertise and consult on risk issues related to Engineering technology and tools.
• Develop and/or contribute to negotiations of third-party contracts/agreements.
• Maintain knowledge and understanding of external development, engineering and emerging solutions, market conditions and their impact.

Workplace Model

Hybrid

Inclusiveness

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
At TD, we\'re committed to fostering an environment where all colleagues are encouraged to bring their authentic selves to work, experience equitable opportunities, and feel respected and supported. We\'re dedicated to building an inclusive workforce that reflects the diversity of the customers and the communities in which we live and serve.

How We\'re Helping Make an Impact in Communities
TD has a long-standing commitment to help drive progress towards a more inclusive and sustainable future. That\'s why we launched the TD Ready Commitment in 2018, now a multi-year North American initiative. Under the TD Ready Commitment, we are targeting a total of $1 billion by 2030 in community giving four key, interconnected drivers of change: Financial Security, Vibrant Planet, Connected Communities, and Better Health. It\'s our goal to help support change, nurture progress, and contribute to making the world a better, more inclusive place for our customers, colleagues, and communities.

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!

Additional Information

Join in on what others in TD Technology Solutions are doing:

• Inspire a positive work environment and help champion quality, innovation, teamwork and service to the business.
• Learn voraciously, stretch your thinking, share your knowledge and educate others.
• Communicate and collaborate with both technical and non-technical professionals.
• Cultivate winning relationships by building trust with business and technology partners.
• Share our commitment to productivity, effectiveness and operational efficiency.

Business Line

Corporate

Job Category - Primary

Technology Solutions

Job Category(s)

Technology Solutions

Job Family

Engineering

Time Type

Full Time

Employment Type

Regular

Pay Details

We\'re committed to providing fair and equitable compensation to all our colleagues. As a candidate, we encourage you to have an open dialogue with your recruiter and ask compensation related questions, including pay details for this role.

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