City : Toronto

Category : Full time

Industry : Financial Services

Employer : Interac

Senior Software Developer

At Interac, we design and deliver products and solutions that give Canadians control over their money so they can get more out of life. But that’s not all. Whether we’re leading real-time money movement, driving innovative ecommerce solutions like open payments for transit systems, or making advancements in new areas like verification and open banking, we are playing a key role in shaping the future of the digital economy in Canada. 
 

Want to make a lasting impact amongst a community of creative thinkers, problem solvers, technical gurus and high-performance application developers? We want to hear from you.

The Software Developer will be responsible for developing and maintaining the company’s highly distributed, high-performance payment system. They will use their extensive background in Core Java, incorporating it into open-source packages and translating the client's business requirements into specific systems, using latest technology solutions.  

You’ll be responsible for:   

• Developing and maintaining resilient microservices applications including analysis, design, development, and implementation. 

• Maintaining Entity relationship Diagrams, designing DB objects for the best performance and Data Lifecycle Management. 

• Participating in system and application architecture & creating system design and application maintenance documents. 

• Developing tools and utilities as needed. 

• Working with software testing teams and assisting them in maintaining robust test scripts and test environments. 

• Designing, writing, securing and consuming REST APIs. 

• Supporting the operations group in application problem analysis and resolution.

• Participating in rotating on-call support when required. 

You bring:

• A university degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent combination of education and experience. 

• 5+ years software development experience; preferably with experience in developing payment system. 

• Eligibility to work for Interac Corp. in Canada in a full-time capacity.  

• Experience in API & Microservices technologies and containers (Spring Boot, Istio, Envoy, Docker, Kubernetes) 

• Experience in cloud technologies like AWS, Azure. Hands on experience with variety of services offered by AWS/Azure.

• Demonstrated ability to deploy, manage, and optimize applications in the cloud environments.

• Experience with database design and development using relational databases (like Oracle, PostgreSQL) as well as NoSQL database. 

• Experience developing Java applications using different frameworks (Spring, Spring MVC, Spring Boot, JPA, Hibernate). 

• Background in building and maintaining DDL, SQL scripts, and an understanding of database administration. 

• Experience developing high-throughput, low latency systems. 

• Strong understanding implementing high-performance, service-oriented architectures. 

• Experience in Core Java Development (Java 8 and above, Java frameworks). 

• Experience in Core Java Object Oriented programming with Multithreading experience and understanding of basic Enterprise Integration Patterns and Design Patterns. 

• Experience with Java frameworks (Spring, Spring Boot, Hibernate, Camel, Netty), Maven, SQL, Bamboo, JavaScript (Node, Knockout, JQuery), Caching (Hazelcast, Redis). 

• An ability to assist with the design and implementation of enterprise level frameworks, broad based functional and technical software solutions. 

• A solid understanding of different types of open-source packages, preferably anything Spring, Apache (Hibernate, ActiveMQ, Camel, Http Commons) and data transformation (jaxb2, json, xml)Extensive experience in event /messaging technologies. 

• Experience in creating and understanding UML diagrams/structure outlines. 

• Extensive knowledge in Design Patterns (Abstract Factory, Decorator, Facade, Adapter, Object Pool, Lazy Initialization, Factory Method, Proxy, Chain of Responsibility, Iterator, Observer, etc.). 

• Experience using concurrency models. 

• Strong communication skills - verbal and written (technical documentation). 

• Experience participating in the overall delivery of software components as part of an agile development process.

Interac requires employees to complete a background check that is completed by one of our service providers.  We use this service to complete the following checks:

• Canadian criminal record check;
• Public safety verification;
• Canadian ID cross-check;
• 5-year employment verification;
• Education verification; and
• If applicable, Credit Inquiry and Social Media Check

How we work
We know that exceptional people have great ideas and are passionate about their work.  Our culture encourages excellence and actively rewards contributions with:

Connection: You’re surrounded by talented people every day who are driven by their passion of a common goal.

Core Values:  They define us. Living them helps us be the best at what we do.

Compensation & Benefits: Pay is driven by individual and corporate performance and we provide a multitude of benefits and perks.

Education: To ensure you are the best at what you do we invest in you