Senior Software Engineer

Questrade Financial Group

$100K — $144K *
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 6+ years of experience building, shipping, and operating production software at scale.
  • Deep expertise in C#/.NET, Java, Node.js/TypeScript, Python, or C++ and their development ecosystems.
  • Proven track record designing distributed systems, APIs, and data models under production load.
  • Strong cloud-native experience (GCP preferred), including Kubernetes, Infrastructure-as-Code, and CI/CD at scale.
  • Experience leading technical initiatives across multiple developers without formal authority.
  • Hands-on experience with a major cloud platform (GCP preferred; AWS or Azure considered) and containerized workloads.

Responsibilities

  • Lead technical design and delivery of complex features and distributed services, documenting architectural trade-offs.
  • Break down large, ambiguous problems into deliverable increments and sequence them with product partners.
  • Set and enforce engineering standards for code quality, testing, security, observability, and operational readiness.
  • Mentor and coach intermediate and junior developers through constructive code reviews and guidance.
  • Partner with Enterprise Architecture, Security, and Production Engineering to maintain scalable, resilient, and compliant designs.
  • Lead incident response for significant outages, driving blameless post-incident reviews to closure with structural fixes.
  • Own service health for key domain components, managing performance, cloud cost, reliability, and technical debt backlogs.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits plan including health, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Competitive incentive (bonus) program for Full-Time Permanent roles.
Full Job Description
We're looking for our next Senior Software Engineer. Could It Be You?

The Senior Software Engineer leads the technical design and delivery of complex features and distributed services. This role is responsible for setting engineering standards, mentoring developers, and partnering cross-functionally to ensure scalable and resilient architectures. The Senior Software Engineer also owns service health for key domain components and plays a critical role in incident response and technical hiring

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  • Lead technical design and delivery of complex features and distributed services, documenting architectural trade-offs.
  • Break down large, ambiguous problems into deliverable increments and sequence them with product partners.
  • Set and enforce engineering standards for code quality, testing, security, observability, and operational readiness.
  • Mentor and coach intermediate and junior developers, delivering constructive code reviews and guiding technical growth.
  • Partner with Enterprise Architecture, Security, and Production Engineering to maintain scalable, resilient, and compliant designs.
  • Lead incident response for significant outages, driving blameless post-incident reviews to closure with structural fixes.
  • Own service health for key domain components, managing performance, cloud cost optimization, reliability, and technical debt backlogs.
  • Contribute to technical hiring by conducting technical assessments and candidate interviews


So are YOU our next Senior Software Engineer ? You are if you...
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 6+ years of experience building, shipping, and operating production software at scale.
  • Deep expertise in C#/.NET, Java, Node.js/TypeScript, Python, or C++ and surrounding development ecosystems.
  • Proven track record designing distributed systems, APIs, and data models under production load.
  • Strong cloud-native experience (GCP preferred), including Kubernetes, Infrastructure-as-Code, and CI/CD at scale.
  • Demonstrated experience leading technical initiatives across multiple developers without formal authority
  • Hands-on experience with a major cloud platform (GCP preferred; AWS or Azure considered) and containerized workloads


Preferred Qualifications:
  • High-availability, high-frequency data streaming, or low-latency financial/trading systems.
  • SRE practices, capacity planning, or cloud cost optimization (FinOps).
  • Active technical thought leadership (open-source contributions, technical publications, conference speaking).
  • Experience building AI/ML-enabled features or data-intensive platforms


Compensation Information:
  • Base salary range: $100,000- $144,000
  • The final compensation package will be commensurate with the successful candidate's experience, skills, and geographic location (Canada). It includes a comprehensive benefits plan and a competitive incentive (bonus) program for Full-Time Permanent roles.


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