Software Engineer

Position Title: Software Engineer
Location: Toronto, ON (Remote)
Estimated Duration: 6 months

               
Story Behind the Need
Business group: Global AI & ML – designing and implementing innovative, intelligent software solutions across the Bank’s business lines.
Project: AIDox MSPI MVP3 – migration from GDAP On-Prem to Atlas GCP Cloud. Implementation Phased.
AIDox Platform is an Agentic AI, custom multi-tenant intelligent document processing solution. One of the first productionalized applications on the Bank's K8s GCP cluster (Atlas), AIDox implements a microservice architecture, uses Pub/Sub for reliable message delivery, and a custom model serving autoscaling service for long-running jobs using Celery workers. It features a Vertex AI-compatible API for the future state of hosting the models on Vertex AI and integrates with multiple banking systems.
Candidate Value Proposition:
This candidate has the opportunity to not only work with a top 5 Canadian bank.
Your role will be an integral part of the organization’s AI/ML strategy dedicated to creating value for the Bank and its customers. You will work closely with a team of data scientists, data engineers, AI/ML product managers, and other software engineers to understand global business partner challenges and processes to turn those insights into working software solutions.
Daily responsibilities:

• Take ownership of your work and deliver scalable, robust, and polished products for end users. –
• Gather and refine business requirements and transform them into concise technical specifications.
• Perform independent research and design efficient solutions which meet specifications and adhere to the industry's best practices and organizational policies.
• Develop existing and new software products with the goal of providing an outstanding service for our customers.
• Communicate ideas verbally and in writing with the team while making it a practice to document designs, deliverables, as well as any other pertinent information such as operational and support runbooks and processes.
• Derive data insights and apply them to address business opportunities.

Must have:

• 10+ years of work experience in software engineering, and/or full-stack development.
• 5-7 Years of Python experience (e.g., Flask, FastAPI)
• 5 years of experience with DevOps and Cloud technologies. E.g., GCP (preferred), AWS, or Azure.
• 5-7 years of experience working with databases and key-value data stores (e.g., MongoDB, Redis, PostgreSQL).
• 5-7 Years of experience with Docker/Docker Compose, Kubernetes, and Linux

Nice to have:

• Work experience with programming and scripting languages such as Bash preferred (other languages also accepted).
• Experience writing/maintaining Helm Charts (preferable) and working with other IT Automation software (e.g., Ansible, Terraform) is a strong plus.
• Experience with building/using CI/CD pipelines (e.g., ArgoWF/ArgoCD) is a plus.
• Experience with using a message broker-like service (e.g., RabbitMQ, Kafka, bonus points for GCP Pub/Sub).
• Experience with modern JavaScript, NodeJS, Express, React/Redux, and related toolsets.

Soft Skills:

• You are a creative, self-starting, results-oriented, and highly motivated individual with very good analytical skills that you apply to the resolution of complex problems.
• You possess very good interpersonal and communication skills that you use to effectively work with stakeholders and members of the project team.
• You are a voracious learner who likes to take on new challenges, while simultaneously taking pride in the continuous improvement of existing software products, to provide an outstanding service for our customers.
• You have a knack for deriving insights out of data and applying them to address business opportunities.
• Great communication skills to be able to collaborate with team members also to be detail-oriented.

Best vs. Average Candidate:
The best candidate will have a clean, error-free resume and avoid generic descriptions of their experience. They should provide detailed examples of how they used technology to solve problems within their organization. Candidate includes a link to their GitHub, which demonstrates consistent, high-quality work on real projects, not just tutorials or project forks. Has GitHub stars and badges/achievements
The best candidate is coming from technology companies instead of financial or banking.

Education:

• You have a university/college degree in a relevant STEM discipline. (Electrical/Computer/Software Engineering, Computer Sciences, Mathematics) is a strong asset.