About the Company Our client, a successful fintech company in North Toronto, is seeking to hire a Manager, Software Engineering (hybrid, 4 days/week).
About the Opportunity
This position will lead a development team working on modernizing a commercial software product from legacy Java (v7-8) backend to API and microservice‑driven architecture on Java v21 and AWS/terraform.
The person in this role is expected to be both technical and have strong team leadership experience.
There is no coding expected in the role, outside of digging into code with developers for quality review or coaching purposes;

however, this person isexpected to come from heavy hands‑on Java roles.
This position will lead architecture and evolution of the dev environment, dev processes and frameworks, app infrastructure, etc.
The application will have React front end and will potentially use Claude AI for some assistance with coding/QA in the future.
This software product has 10-50k messages flowing per day with 1000s of concurrent users.
About You




History of progressive hands‑on software engineering and architecture positions
Past/current coding/architecture experience with Java, Springboot, Linux
Experience managing architecture, building and deployment of commercial software products and APIs/microservices on AWS
Experience managing cloud‑first dev environments and dev/qa/devops/agile strategy
Experience managing small Agile development scrum teams
Very valuable communication and presentation skills
Commute to Markham office 4 days/week
Bonus Items
Experience with refactoring/modernization of software code
Implementing AI coding agents
Experience with GitHub as code management environment
Financial industry (or regulated like Soc2, PCI, etc.)
Python
NoSQL
DevOps, containerization, pipelines, etc.
Salary Range $150,000 - $160,000/year plus bonus
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