Paid vacation, personal, and sick days for work-life balance Work-life balance in a hybrid environment with at least 3 days in office Opportunities to contribute to community causes This job posting is for an existing vacancy and the location can be Toronto, ON (5700 Yonge St/70 York St) OR Calgary, AB (Our Brand-New Office) We’re looking for our next Team Lead, Software Engineering .

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The Team

Lead architecturally orchestrates integration layers and unifies customer journeys across complex and legacy systems. This leadership role focuses on technical stewardship in areas like identity propagation, implementing resilience engineering patterns, and managing technical debt.

The Team

Lead also mentors engineers and partners cross-functionally to ensure structural soundness and feasibility during feature discovery.. Unify customer journeys, ensuring core workflows like money transfers deliver smooth, performant experiences across savings, brokerage, and lending products. Champion technical stewardship, owning single sign-on (SSO), cross-app session management, and identity propagation (KYC/AML) to balance security and usability.

Implement resilience engineering patterns (circuit breakers, retries, bulkhead isolation) to prevent failure propagation across heterogeneous platforms. Lead and mentor Pod engineers, fostering a holistic engineering mindset regarding how system latency and data flows impact the broader user dashboard.



Partner cross-functionally with UX Research and Product Management to embed technical feasibility into feature designs during early discovery.

Make high-judgment calls on technical debt, distinguishing speed-buying workarounds from technical rot while navigating legacy middleware and APIs. Lead root-cause analysis for multi-system outages, focusing incident command on structural fixes rather than immediate workarounds. So are YOU our next Team Lead, Software Engineering ?

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience. ~7+ years of software development experience with demonstrated technical leadership or Pod lead responsibilities. ~ Solid background in distributed transaction management, eventual consistency, and identity standards (OAuth2, OIDC, JWTs, SSO). ~ Practical experience implementing resilience patterns (circuit breakers, retries, bulkhead isolation) across complex system boundaries. ~ Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers, influence technical roadmaps, and partner cross-functionally with UX and Product Experience navigating financial regulatory requirements (PII, SOC 2, AML/KYC) while maintaining user experience standards. Incident command experience leading root-cause analysis across complex, multi-system outages. Strong track record of high-judgment calls on technical debt and legacy system modernization It includes a comprehensive benefits plan and a competitive incentive (bonus) program for Full-Time Permanent roles. #

📌 Team Leader / Lead Software Engineer / Ingénieur Logiciel H/F (Toronto)
🏢 Questrade Financial Group
📍 Toronto