Developer - Software

Story Behind the Need:

• Business group: Canadian Digital Banking Engineering – Project work related to digital banking, APIs, microservices
• Project: Atlas project: Cloud infrastructure migration

Candidate Value Proposition:

• Not only will this candidate gain experience at a big 5 bank, but they will be working daily with some of the most disruptive and emerging technologies, making real impact at the bank and its deliverables.
• The ideal candidate will be part of a collaborative software engineering team working on Spring Boot, Microservices, Kafka, NoSQL, Docker, OpenShift, Kubernetes

Typical Day in Role:

• Quickly analyze the available data and find the root cause of the problem during production issues.
• Suggest improvements to supported applications and systems as needed
• Suggest improvements to supported applications and systems as needed
• Translate ideas into technical and business realities, and to map technology to business problems.
• Understanding of software quality assurance principles
• Candidate will be passionate about driving teams towards high performance and a deep pride in quality craftsmanship that delights users

Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:

• 10+ years of experience in software development and supporting complex large-scale customer facing platforms
• 5+ years of experience as a Java developer with a preference for Java 17/Springboot3
• 5+ years of experience in building public and internal REST APIs
• 2+ years’ experience with APM tools, such as Dynatrace, Splunk, etc. – 2 recent projects
• 5+ years’ combined experience using Jira, Confluence, Jenkins (these 3 are required), and Bitbucket, Launch Darkly preferable – 2 recent projects

Nice-To-Have Skills:

• FI/Digital banking experience is preferred but not required
• Experience in an Agile environment
• Dev has worked on Mac laptops

Soft Skills Required:

• Excellent English verbal and written communication skills are essential
• Ability to distil technical details into simple terms; ability to influence decision making across stakeholders

Education:

• Bachelors or equivalent in computer science or related field is preferred

Best VS. Average Candidate:

• Ideal candidate is a strong senior Java dev with recent API project experience, no need for node, just a strong Java developer.

Candidate Review & Selection:

• 2 rounds – MS Teams Video Interviews:
o 1st round 30 minutes – verbal interview probing on technical skills with the technical team (lead and developer)
o 2nd round 45 minutes – Technical interview with Codility test – team and HM will join at start and end to introduce – for codility 1 question – Java skills testing
• Need a computer with working camera for interview, and sharing screen – video must be ON