Software Engineer

78563
Toronto, ON
Contract
3 weeks ago

Position Title: Software Engineer
Location: Toronto, ON
Duration: 10 months
             
Story Behind the Need
Business group: Global AI & ML – designing and implementing innovative, intelligent software solutions across the Bank’s business lines.
Project: N/a
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 in order 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, web application, and full-stack development.
5-7 years of work experience with modern JavaScript, NodeJS, Express, React/Redux, and related toolsets.
5-7 years of work experience with programming and scripting languages such as Python and Bash preferred (other languages also accepted).
Experience with DevOps and Cloud technologies. E.g., GCP (preferred), AWS, or Azure.
Experience working with databases and key-value data stores (e.g., MongoDB, Redis, PostgreSQL)
Nice to have:

  • Knowledge of Python (e.g., Flask, FastAPI) is a very strong plus.
  • Advanced experience with Docker/Docker Compose, Kubernetes, GCP and Linux are a very strong plus.
  • 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).

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 continuous improvement of existing software products, with the goal of providing 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. 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.

Candidate Review & Selection
1st round MS Teams video interview – HM (30 minutes)

  • Introductions and discuss project details

2nd round MS Teams video interview – Panel with technical team (1.5 hours)

  • Discuss candidate’s skills/experience and gauge the depth of their knowledge, behavioural questions.
  • Technical questions
  • Assess match for team culture

The pay range that the employer reasonably expects to pay for this position is between and

Our voluntary benefits offering includes medical, dental, vision and retirement benefits.

Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis.

Tundra Technical Solutions would like to thank you for the interest you have demonstrated in this opportunity. However, only candidates with the required skills will be contacted.

Tundra Technical Solutions is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We welcome and encourage diversity in our workplace.

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