What’s in it for you as an employee of QFG? Health & wellbeing resources and programs Paid vacation, personal, and sick days for work-life balance Competitive compensation and benefits packages Work-life balance in a hybrid workplace with at least 3 days in office Career growth and development opportunities Opportunities to contribute to community causes Work with diverse team members in an inclusive and collaborative environment This job posting is for an existing vacancy and the location can be Toronto, ON (5700 Yonge St) OR Calgary, AB (Our Brand-New Office) We’re looking for our next Senior Software Engineer.

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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 Need more details? Keep reading… 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. Sounds like you? Click below to apply!

📌 Senior Software Engineer (Toronto)
🏢 Questrade Financial Group
📍 Toronto