Role description

Senior Full Stack Developer

Lead II - Software Engineering

UST is searching for a Senior Full Stack Developer who thrives in modern, AI-accelerated engineering environments and wants to build highly scalable systems used by millions. This role blends hands-on backend engineering, cloud-native architecture, secure development practices, and AI-assisted delivery, with opportunities to contribute to both platform stability and future backend modernization.

The opportunity:
• Applying secure-coding best practices to existing services, refactoring risky patterns, and improving logging, observability, and incident readiness.
• Using modern DevOps tooling such as GitHub, CI/CD, containerization, and cloud platforms to automate deployments and reduce manual, repetitive work.
• Collaborating with security SMEs to understand threat models, prioritize remediation work, and translate security findings into clean, maintainable code.
• Designing and building new backend capabilities and APIs that extend and modernize the platform.
• Participating in design discussions, contributing to technical decisions, and helping shape the next generation of backend services.
• Pair-programming and doing code reviews with other senior engineers to share knowledge, improve quality, and continuously raise the engineering bar.
• Leveraging AI-assisted development tools to accelerate delivery, improve engineering efficiency, and support code quality across the development lifecycle.
• Working closely with cross-functional partners across engineering, product, and business teams to deliver scalable, production-ready solutions.

This position description identifies the responsibilities and tasks typically associated with the performance of the position. Other relevant essential functions may be required.

What you need:
• Total experience: 5 years+
• Strong backend expertise with Java or Node.js.
• Experience building RESTful APIs and working with Open API specifications.
• Intermediate to advanced experience with Angular (React is a plus).
• 2+ years of hands-on experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or OpenShift.
• Strong working knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes.
• Expert-level Git skills, including branching, merging, and code reviews.
• Experience translating Figma designs into production-ready UI.
• Hands-on experience with Splunk, Dynatrace, or similar monitoring tools.
• DevOps & Automation
• Proven experience with GitHub Actions and CI/CD pipeline design.
• Strong focus on automated unit, functional, and performance testing.
• Experience integrating intelligent agents into CI/CD pipelines to automate reviews, testing, or deployments.
• Security and DevSecOps
• Familiarity with application security practices and secure coding standards.
• Experience with vulnerability scanning and remediation tools.
• Exposure to integrating security gates within CI/CD pipelines (shift-left security / DevSecOps).

Compensation can differ depending on factors including but not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, education, and level of experience. UST provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired in various U.S. markets as set forth below.

Role Location: Hybrid-Ontario

Compensation Range: $104,000-$130,000

Benefits

Full-time, regular employees accrue a minimum of 10 days of paid vacation per year, receive 6 days of paid sick leave each year (pro-rated for new hires throughout the year), paid holidays, and are eligible for paid bereavement leave and jury duty. They and their dependents residing in Canada are eligible for Supplemental Healthcare coverage, as well as Company-paid Employee Only basic life insurance and accidental death and dismemberment coverage.

Full-time temporary employees receive 6 days of paid sick leave each year (pro-rated for new hires throughout the year). They and their dependents residing in Canada are eligible for Supplemental Healthcare coverage, as well as Company-paid Employee Only basic life insurance and accidental death and dismemberment coverage.

Part-time regular and temporary employees receive 6 days of paid sick leave each year (pro-rated for new hires throughout the year).

All Canadian employees who work in a province, territory or locality with more generous paid sick leave benefits than specified here will receive the benefit of those sick leave laws.

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