Title: Senior Java Engineer

Type: 6-month contract + opportunity to extend

Location: 1 Queen Street East, Toronto

Work Model: Hybrid (4 days in office)

Day-to-Day Responsibilities
Refactor and decompose a large monolithic application into microservices.
Design, develop, and maintain backend services using Java and Spring Boot.
Contribute to architecture discussions, service boundaries, and technical design decisions.
Develop and deploy cloud-native applications in AWS.
Build and enhance React-based UI components
Collaborate with developers, business analysts, and Capital Markets stakeholders.
Ensure systems are highly performant, secure, resilient, and scalable.
Participate in code reviews and engineering best practices.

Must-Have Skills

Backend Development
10+ years of enterprise Java development experience.
Advanced Spring Boot expertise.
Proven experience building and refactoring microservices architectures.
Experience designing and developing distributed, high-performance systems.

Frontend Development




Hands-on React development experience.
Comfortable contributing to frontend features and UI enhancements

Cloud & DevOps
Cloud- AWS experience (preferred)

Capital Markets Experience (if they don't have capital markets, should at least come from financial services/ retail banking).
Public Markets experience.
FX experience.
Equities experience.
Derivatives experience.
Understanding of front-office trading workflows.

Soft Skills
Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
Ability to work independently in a quick-paced engineering environment.
Solid communication and collaboration skills.

Nice-to-Haves
Experience with portfolio management or trading platforms.
AWS cloud-native services experience.
Mockito and automated testing frameworks.
Exposure to AI/ML concepts.
Experience working in highly regulated financial environments.

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