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TD is committed to providing fair and equitable compensation opportunities to all colleagues. Growth opportunities and skill development are defining features of the colleague experience at TD. Our compensation policies and practices have been designed to allow colleagues to progress through the salary range over time as they progress in their role. The base pay actually offered may vary based upon the candidate's skills and experience, job-related knowledge, geographic location, and other specific business and organizational needs. 

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Job Description:

The Software Engineer II performs activities developing components of solutions with a focus on analytics, support, testing, and proof of concepts aligned to business and technology objectives. 

Provides a broad range of system solutions development to business problems through the development and programming of applications / systems. May also provide research, installation, maintenance, configuration, administration and/or provisioning of systems/applications.

Depth & Scope:

• Advanced knowledge of specific domain or range of engineering frameworks, technology, tools, processes and procedures, as well as organization issues

• Performs complex to difficult technical tasks independently

• Advanced knowledge of technology, tools, various programming languages, processes, and procedures

• Develops program specifications; adapts, integrates, codes, tests and debugs programs; and is responsible for executing

• Uses existing procedures to solve routine problems; makes limited exceptions

Education & Experience:

• Undergraduate degree, Postgraduate degree or Technical Certificate

• Strong academic background (e.g., computer science, engineering)

• 3-5 years relevant experience

Customer Accountabilities:

• Develops new solutions as required for engineering programs and projects within assigned area

• Develops new features and performs unit / component test for new application development initiatives aligned to business needs and in accordance with technology architecture standards

• Supports business enquiries and business activities through execution of small enhancements and break / fix implementations (e.g. source code changes) May also be responsible for peer code review

• Works with technology partners to ensure the configuration and custom components meet application requirements and performance goals

• Analyzes the technical requirements to recommend pragmatic and sound engineering specific solutions for own area, may be involved in coding/story estimates

• Works with other stakeholders, internal technology partners to ensure engineering solutions meet technical direction, requirements, performance, time-to-market and innovation goals

• Monitors product lifecycles, ensuring specifications and functionality support business objectives and engineering decisions, undertaking re-development where required

• Documents and verifies system components, applications, system infrastructure, security, integration, operability and engineering related architecture designs associated with a program or project

• Participates in quality management reviews, in particular reviews of the designs, prototypes and other requirements work products to ensure they fulfill the requirements

• Creates and maintains quality code, ensures defect free programming consistent with standards; provides code maintenance and support during testing cycles and post-production deployment and participates in reviewing peer coding

• Provides technical expertise during Incident management, analyzes incident reports and outages, performs impact assessment for incidents and facilitates internal and external communication throughout incident resolution

• Participates in identifying and recommending development / testing solutions / tools in support of project / application objectives

• Assists in the development / maintenance of comprehensive processes for prevention of issues and participate in problem determination and timely resolution of incidents applying appropriate quality measures

Shareholder Accountabilities:

• Adheres to enterprise frameworks or methodologies that relate to software engineering activities

• Ensures respective programs/ policies/practices are well managed, meets business needs, complies with internal and external requirements, and aligns with business priorities

• Collaboratively engages with relevant stakeholders at all levels, both internal and external, to shift from finding defects to proactively preventing defects

• Actively seeks and supports continuous improvement and automation opportunities within the engineering practice

• Conducts meaningful analysis at the functional or enterprise level using results to draw conclusions, make recommendations, assess the effectiveness of programs/ policies/ practices

• Identify opportunities to minimize cost, provide recommendations and/or deliver corresponding strategic solutions to support cost effectiveness and to enhance stakeholder experience

• Conducts code reviews to ensure adherence to quality, standards compliance, reusability and ease of maintenance, Operational Readiness Reviews, and supporting gating and review sign-offs for solution design

• Monitors service, productivity and assesses efficiency levels within own function and implement continuous process / performance improvements where opportunities exists

• Leads / facilitates and/or implements actions / remediation plans to address performance / risk /governance issues

• Actively manages relationships within and across various business lines, corporate and/or control functions and ensures alignment with enterprise and/or regulatory requirements

• Protects the interests of the organization – identifies and manage risks, and escalates non-standard, high risk activities as necessary

• Keeps abreast of emerging issues, trends, and evolving regulatory requirements and assesses potential impacts

• Maintains a culture of risk management and control, supported by effective processes in alignment with risk appetite

Employee/Team Accountabilities:

• Participates fully as a member of the team, supports a positive work environment that promotes service to the business, quality, innovation and teamwork and ensures timely communication of issues/ points of interest

• Provides thought leadership and/ or industry knowledge for quality engineering best practices and participates in knowledge transfer within the team and business unit

• Keeps current on emerging trends/ developments and grows knowledge of the business, related tools and techniques

• Participates in personal performance management and development activities, including cross training within own team

• Keeps others informed and up-to-date about the status / progress of projects and / or all relevant or useful information related to day-to-day activities

• Actively mentors and enables team members by sharing knowledge and leveraging engineering best practices

• Supports the team by providing guidance and proactively identifying and resolving issues

• Leads, motivates and develops relationships with internal and external business partners / stakeholders to develop productive working relationships

• Contributes to a fair, positive and equitable environment that supports a diverse workforce

• Acts as a brand ambassador for your business area/function and the bank, both internally and/or externally

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong software engineering fundamentals across backend services, APIs, data modelling, testing and operational support.

• Experience developing secure, maintainable code in Python and modern languages and frameworks, preferably TypeScript / Node.js and cloud-native patterns.

• Practical knowledge of cloud platforms, cloud-native application patterns, infrastructure-as-code concepts, containerized services, observability and secure deployment practices.

• Working knowledge of CI/CD, automated testing, dependency management, observability and incident support.

• Ability to translate requirements into technical designs, estimates, user stories and acceptance criteria.

• Effective communication skills with the ability to explain technical choices, risks and trade-offs to engineers and stakeholders.

• Experience with TypeScript, Node.js or similar modern development frameworks.

• Exposure to Azure, AWS, containerized development environments, cloud deployment practices, CI/CD, automated testing or infrastructure-as-code concepts.

• Interest or experience in data management, data governance, metadata or catalog platforms, including DataHub, OpenMetadata, Collibra, or comparable solutions.

• Understanding of lineage and provenance concepts including OpenLineage, W3C PROV-oriented models and automated lineage capture patterns preferred.

• Experience or exposure to Elasticsearch or OpenSearch concepts.

• Understanding of security and compliance engineering concepts, including RBAC, ABAC, SSO/MFA, secrets management, audit logging, access governance, network controls, and secure configuration baselines.

• Exposure to pandas for data analysis, profiling, transformation or automation use cases is a plus.

• Familiarity with responsible use of coding copilots or AI-assisted developer workflows.

Physical Requirements:

Never: 0%; Occasional: 1-33%; Frequent: 34-66%; Continuous: 67-100%

• Domestic Travel – Occasional

• International Travel – Never

• Performing sedentary work – Continuous

• Performing multiple tasks – Continuous

• Operating standard office equipment - Continuous

• Responding quickly to sounds – Occasional

• Sitting – Continuous

• Standing – Occasional

• Walking – Occasional

• Moving safely in confined spaces – Occasional

• Lifting/Carrying (under 25 lbs.) – Occasional

• Lifting/Carrying (over 25 lbs.) – Never

• Squatting – Occasional

• Bending – Occasional

• Kneeling – Never

• Crawling – Never

• Climbing – Never

• Reaching overhead – Never

• Reaching forward – Occasional

• Pushing – Never

• Pulling – Never

• Twisting – Never

• Concentrating for long periods of time – Continuous

• Applying common sense to deal with problems involving standardized situations – Continuous

• Reading, writing and comprehending instructions – Continuous

• Adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing – Continuous

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required. The listed or specified responsibilities & duties are considered essential functions for ADA purposes.