- Location: North York/Waterloo/Toronto, ON - (100% Remote)
- Pay Rate: $55.21/hr - $65.17/hr
- Contract Length: Until Dec 15, 2026

We at Raise are hiring a Senior Software Engineer for one of our top clients. After establishing themselves as an industry leader, they’re now expanding their team to meet rising demand. We’re hiring right now; if you’re interested, apply below for your chance to join a great place to work

Responsibilities

- Analyze, investigate, and recommend solutions to improve processes, enhance operational efficiency, identify pain points, and optimize development workflows.
- Contribute to the creation and maintenance of technical documentation, standards, reusable frameworks, and implementation templates.
- Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams using Agile methodologies to plan, develop, test, and deliver software solutions.
- Utilize Jira and Confluence to manage work, track progress, document requirements, and support team collaboration.
- Implement and follow source control best practices using Git, Bitbucket, and modern branching strategies such as GitFlow and Trunk-Based Development.
- Design, develop, test, and maintain software applications using Python and Java.
- Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality, maintainability, security, and adherence to engineering standards.
- Support and improve CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins and GitLab CI/CD.
- Assist with infrastructure automation, provisioning, and configuration management using tools such as Terraform and Ansible.
- Contribute to the design and implementation of distributed systems and microservices-based applications.
- Work with cloud-native technologies and AWS services to build scalable, reliable, and secure solutions.
- Troubleshoot production issues, perform root cause analysis, and implement preventive solutions.
- Partner with team members to promote engineering best practices, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement.




- Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions and implementation plans

Critical Skills / Must-Haves

- Python — primary development language; essential per manager
- AWS — Lambda, EventBridge, SQS, API Gateway, serverless fundamentals
- Git/Bitbucket — source control, branching strategies, code collaboration
- Jenkins & CI/CD — build automation, pipelines, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Harness

Core Engineering Experience

- 2–5 years in software engineering, DevOps, or application development
- Experience developing in Python and/or Java
- Participation in code reviews and applying best practices

Agile & Collaboration Tools —

- Scrum/Kanban: Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and experience working within Scrum or Kanban teams
- Jira & Confluence: Experience with Jira and Confluence for planning, tracking, and collaboration.

Up-to-date Architecture & Development Concepts —

- Distributed systems, APIs, microservices: Understanding of distributed systems, APIs, event-driven architectures, and microservices design principles.
- Event‑driven architectures
- Infrastructure‑as‑code fundamentals: Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code, configuration management, and automation concepts
- Modern web frameworks (React, Angular, Vue, Preact, or similar technologies)
- AI‑assisted development tools (GitHub Copilot, Claude Code)

Nice-to-Haves

- Terraform — infrastructure-as-code, automation, provisioning
- Snowflake — RBAC, masking, SQL fundamentals, data warehouse experience
- AWS Lambda — serverless compute, event-driven workflows
- AWS Data & Analytics Services — Glue Catalog/ETL, Lake Formation, Athena, SageMaker, S3




- Cloud-Native & Event-Driven Architecture — building distributed, serverless, or event-driven applications on AWS
- Containerization & Orchestration — Docker, Kubernetes
- AWS Security & Governance — IAM, encryption, access management
- Quality, Observability & DevOps Practices — TDD, unit/integration testing, monitoring, logging, SRE/Platform Engineering exposure
- Certifications — AWS, Terraform, or related cloud certifications

Education

- Bachelor's degree or diploma in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.

Soft Skills

- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving abilities.
- Effective written and verbal communication skills with the ability to collaborate across cross-functional teams.

Looking for meaningful work? We can help! Raise is an established hiring firm with over 65 years of experience. We believe strongly in making the world a better place through work, which is why we’re a certified B Corporation and donate 10% of our profits to charity. We strive to build teams that reflect the diversity of the communities we work in. We encourage all qualified applicants to apply, including people from traditionally underrepresented groups such as women, visible minorities, Indigenous peoples, people identifying as LGBTQ2SI, veterans, and people with visible/nonvisible disabilities.

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📌 Senior Software Engineer (North York)
🏢 Raise
📍 North York