Location: Toronto, ON - Hybrid (1 day/week onsite, Thursdays)

- Pay Rate: $85.21/hr - $$100.58/hr/hr

- Contract Length: 12 Months with possibility for extension

We at Raise are hiring a Lead Software Engineer (Squad Tech Lead) 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

- Collaborate with skilled Agile team members to understand user needs and design, develop and deliver high quality web applications that meet those needs

- Configure and design applications and workflows, using outside the box thinking, to create innovative ways to advance our client first strategy

- Lead AI-assisted development practices, leveraging GitHub Copilot and other AI coding tools to accelerate development velocity and improve code quality

- Design, develop, and integrate AI agents and conversational interfaces to enhance application capabilities and deliver intelligent automation solutions

- Champion secure coding practices and lead efforts to identify, prioritize, and remediate application security vulnerabilities using SAST/DAST tools

- Conduct security code reviews and ensure compliance with security standards and best practices throughout the development lifecycle

- Coach, mentor and collaborate with members of the design and development team

- Provide technical direction and guidance to projects, ensuring risks are mitigated and projects are implemented successfully

- Establish coding standards and technical best practices across the squad

- Conduct code reviews and mentor team members on technical excellence

- Support developers in removing technical blockers and guide technical implementation of user stories and features

- Communicate technical risks, dependencies, and constraints to stakeholders

- Participate in planning and refinement sessions with technical perspective and collaborate with Product Owner on technical feasibility and estimates

- Drive quality standards and testing practices; identify technical debt and propose solutions

- Monitor system performance and reliability and champion continuous improvement initiatives





- Contribute to defining timelines and plans; analyze and estimate feasibility, cost, time and scope

- Ensure coding, testing, debugging, and implementation activities are completed as required

- Participate in agile ceremonies and support on-call and incident response when needed

- Represent the squad's technical interests in cross-squad discussions and collaborate with other Tech Leads across squads for consistency

Critical Skills / Must-Haves

- Core Technical

- Expert Java + Spring Boot (complex microservices, high scale APIs, performance tuning)

- Strong experience with REST APIs

- Solid understanding of web applications & server technologies

- Ability to learn internal frameworks quickly

- Leadership & Communication

- 70% leadership / 30% hands on

- Proven experience leading and mentoring developers

- Strong communication skills for working with architects, PSCs, product owners, and business stakeholders

- Experience leading mixed level teams (junior + intermediate)

- Security

- Ability to address code level vulnerabilities

- Experience using SAST/DAST tools (Snyk, Checkmarx, SonarQube, Veracode)

- Understanding of secure SDLC and basic threat modeling

- DevOps & Testing

- Experience with CI/CD pipelines (BitBucket, Jenkins, CDD)

- Solid unit testing experience (JUnit, Mockito, RESTAssured)

- AI (Adjusted Depth)

- Beginner–intermediate experience with GitHub Copilot or similar LLMs

- Ability to use AI for assisted development, code generation, and productivity

Individual Skills

- Customer obsession – customers are at the centre of all we do
- A penchant for creating re-usable components and identifying opportunities for re-use

- Innovation mindset with enthusiasm for exploring and implementing AI technologies to solve business problems

- Security-first mindset with commitment to building secure, resilient applications





- Ability to evaluate AI solutions for ethical considerations, bias, privacy, and responsible AI practices

- Flexible and adaptable with the ability to align to changing priorities and technologies

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills

- Strong technical expertise with ability to establish and drive quality standards

- Collaborative approach to working with Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and cross-functional teams

- Ability and desire to lead with excellent communication skills

Nice-to-Haves

- Front End

- Understanding of React or Angular

- Awareness of Web Accessibility (A11y)

- Cloud & Platform

- Basic Kubernetes experience (pod tuning, configuration)

- Docker/containerization

- Messaging & Integration

- Kafka

- SOAP/XML

- Domain

- Financial services or insurance experience

- Experience with retirement products, savings, or client experience journeys

- AI (Bonus)

- Experience with Claude, agent orchestration platforms, or conversational interfaces

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.

We have a dedicated webpage for accommodations where you can learn more about what we offer and request accommodation: https://raise.jobs/accommodations/

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📌 Lead Software Engineer (Squad Tech Lead) (Toronto)
🏢 Raise
📍 Toronto