Sr Java Backend Developer - Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, REST API

Sr Java Backend Developer - Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, REST API

Location: Toronto, ON - Hybrid (4 Days WFO)

Duration: 6-12 months

Experience: 8+ years

Looking for a strong Java Backend Developer who has some web application (front-end) experience.

Role and Responsibilities

• As a Backend Software Developer, you have a solid technical foundation and a strong focus on growing your development skills.
• You are able to deliver complex tasks, working individually or pairing with others, and you have a significant amount of experience in different domains.
• You will be part of a team creating new services and client-facing applications using the latest technologies which will shape the future of banking.
• You will develop and support highly scalable, high-performance APIs within an Agile development team.
• Ensure high code quality through automated unit and functional testing.
• Automate processes within the development pipeline; identify opportunities for efficiency gains and reducing time-to-market and enabling continuous delivery.
• Design and develop code structures based on technical design defined by the team.
• Work within an Agile product team comprised of technical, product, and business team members to deliver exceptional products.
• You will actively seek out knowledge about new technologies and how they can be used to solve current and foreseeable challenges.
• Excellent communication including the ability to distill technical details into human terms.

Required Qualifications

• Cloud experience in one of OCP, Azure, or AWS.
• Prefer OCP4, minimum (3x) years.
• Java/Spring experience, minimum (5x) years.
• LINUX/AIX experience, minimum (3x) years.
• GitHub Actions experience, minimum of (1x) year.
• GitHub experience, minimum of (2x) years.
• Agile experience, minimum (3x) years.
• Strong leadership skills leading Agile teams, (3x) years experience.
• DevOps minimum (1x) year experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Trading business domain knowledge.
• AI experience (LLM, MCP, RAG, LANGCHAIN, Skills/Agents/Tasks/Vector DB).
• Experience with Web App development, Angular, JavaScript, etc.