Duration: Until Sep 4th Location: Toronto or Waterloo (Primary location is Waterloo.

Remote candidates will be considered however must be in EST time zone) *Needs to be eligible for Reliability Clearance (Should have lived in Canada for 5 consecutive years) Join a platform engineering initiative building a current API and microservices ecosystem from the ground up within a large financial services environment.

This role focuses on Java REST APIs, Kafka-based event-driven services, and microservices deployed to Kubernetes using Docker in on-prem and AWS environments.

The position offers exposure to business processes and technology initiatives supporting long-term platform modernization.

Must Haves More than 5 years of development skills and progressive information technology experience with full application development life cycle and systems integration experience Strong working experience with Java APIs, REST, SOAP, Spring, JSON, Open API, Swagger, web services and web hosting technologies 1+ years experience using Dev

Ops tools (Jenkins, Artifactory, Bit

Bucket, Maven, CDD/Ansible) 1+ years experience with Kafka and/or Kafka Streams (with KSQL) Customer obsession – customers are at the center of all we do Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with ability to analyze situations/problems systematically and deliver effective right-sized solutions in a timely manner Experience with managing and coordinating team activities in a multi-site environment.





Robust organizational and planning skill Excellent verbal and written communications skills Nice to Have Experience with Kubernetes, Okta, AWS, MongoDB Experience with Group Retirement products and business domains Working knowledge of Business Rule Management Systems such as IBM’s ODM Experience with Web

Sphere, DB2, Java UI: Swing, Spring MVC, Sonar

Qube for static code analysis Exposure to Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) integration architectures and technologies Additional Requirements: Periodic weekend / after-hours work may be required to support project implementations and system upgrades Occasional travel between office locations may be required depending on work assignments Possibility of on-call support maybe required Responsibilities Lead and participate in the design, development, deployment of Java REST web service APIs and microservices using Docker and Kubernetes.

Ensure service designs follow approved architecture.

Learn and incorporate emerging API technologies into our APIs.

Build event driven services using Kafka Use and enhance our Dev Ops tools and processes for CD/CI, these tools include Jenkins, Artifactory, Bit

Bucket, Gradle, Continuous Delivery Director, Ansible Mentor and support colleagues in their capabilities Identify defects in services, debug and provide effective solutions to resolve the defects.

When required, support existing APIs built on older technologies e.g., Websphere, DB2, Java UI etc.

📌 Senior Java Engineer to build Java REST APIs and event-driven microservices using Kafka, Spring Boot, Docker, and Kubernetes - 1694 (Toronto)
🏢 S.i. Systems
📍 Toronto