Senior Java Developer, Scotia Digital at Scotiabank in Toronto, ON

As a Senior Software Developer on the Scotia Digital engineer team, your role contributes to the overall success of the Digital Banking Unit in Canada, ensuring specific individual goals, plans, initiatives are executed / delivered in support of the team’s business strategies and objectives. Ensures all activities conducted are in compliance with governing regulations, internal policies and procedures.

Are you the right person for this role?

• Champions a customer focused culture to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge.
• Work with product owners and business system analysts to refine ticket requirements in JIRA and Confluence, review pull requests, and implement documented designs.
• Develop high-quality code by reviewing work with designer and product owners and resolving any issues quality assurance testers.
• Collaborate closely with a team of iOS, Android, and backend developers to work on both new features and incremental improvements to the bank’s flagship mobile app
• Adheres to and demonstrates good coding conventions and best practices, and helps to maintain the architecture of the project
• Stays on top of reviewing others’ code, actively contributing suggestions and catching potential issues
• Always works to balance user experience, performance (client and backend), and security
• Understand how the Bank’s risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day-to-day activities and decisions.
• Actively pursues effective and efficient operations of his/her respective areas in accordance with Scotiabank’s Values, its Code of Conduct and the Global Sales Principles, while ensuring the adequacy, adherence to and effectiveness of day-to-day business controls to meet obligations with respect to operational, compliance, AML/ATF/sanctions and conduct risk.
• Champions a high performance environment and contributes to an inclusive work environment.

Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed?

• 5+ years of experience in software development and supporting complex large-scale customer facing platforms
• Proficient in J2EE to support Enterprise Applications and Services
• Work experience as a Java developer with a preference for Java 8/Spring, web-based information technology principles, and system integration methodologies and standards.
• Experience in working with scalable containerized systems in public cloud (Azure and GKE/GCP)
• Have a proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
• Experience in building public and internal REST APIs
• Strong experience with APM tools, such as Dynatrace, Splunk, etc.
• Comfortable using Jira, Confluence, Jenkins, Bitbucket, Launch Darkly, etc.
• Ability to 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
• Knowledge of a variety of frameworks (server side, browser side, desktop etc.) as well as high aptitude for diving in and picking up new things
• Ability to 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
• Well-rounded knowledge of Agile principles and the flexibility to adapt your experience to new and evolving environments
• Proven ability to translate ideas into technical and business realities, and to map technology to business problems.
• Understanding of software quality assurance principles
• Passion for driving teams towards high performance and a deep pride in quality craftsmanship that delights users
• A technical mindset with great attention to detail
• Excellent communication skills including ability to distil technical details into simple terms; ability to influence decision making across stakeholders
• Excellent organizational skills and ability to manage multiple complex initiatives
• Natural Problem Solver

What's in it for you?

• We have an inclusive and collaborative working environment that encourages creativity and curiosity and celebrates success!
• We provide you with the tools and technology needed to create meaningful customer experiences
• You'll get to work with and learn from diverse industry leaders, who have hailed from top technology companies around the world
• We hire you for your talent — not just a job — so you can grow with us. We’ll equip you for success not only in your role, but also in your career as a whole
• Dress codes don't apply here: being comfortable does
• Our work from home social channel offers weekly virtual yoga, social events, learning opportunities, and contests to share current experiences & promote wellbeing in our new remote environment
• Access to thousands of online and in-person courses so you can hone your current skills, or learn new ones
• A competitive rewards package that includes a base salary, a performance bonus, company matching programs on pension and profit sharing, paid vacation, personal & sick days, medical, vision, and dental benefits that start from day one and much more!
• Free shuttle service to and from Union Station, onsite subsidized cafeteria with a chef, and an onsite fitness center