Principal, Software Engineering (Toronto)

Principal, Software Engineering (Toronto)

28 Oct
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Intact FC
|
Toronto

28 Oct

Intact FC

Toronto

Together, we help people, businesses, and society prosper in good times and be resilient in bad times. In return, we promise to provide support, opportunities and performance-led financial rewards at a workplace where you can shape the future, win as a team and grow with us. Versatile wellbeing, including telemedicine, Wellness account and much more Annual bonus the target (subject to personal and company performance): we share our success with employees through our annual bonus plan and Employee Share Purchase Plan (ESPP) – with Intact matching 50% of your net shares. Our pension offerings provide flexibility and long-term security for our employees beyond their careers. We are one of the few companies offering the opportunity to receive guaranteed income for life via our defined benefit pension plan. Salary for the candidate will be determined taking into consideration a number of factors including: experience, skills, qualifications, anticipated contribution to role, internal equity, etc. Hands-On Engineering: Pair directly with engineers to resolve high-ambiguity challenges across modern cloud services, APIs, integration platforms, commercial products, and legacy systems. Lead by example during production incidents, performance investigations, security remediation, and complex defect resolution. Build working slices and proofs of concept to validate technical direction before teams scale an approach. Develop reusable frameworks, APIs, automation, and engineering toolkits that improve consistency and accelerate delivery across product teams. Technical Leadership Through Doing, Not Decree: Translate enterprise needs into practical platform boundaries, technical decisions, and sequenced modernization plans. Advance strategic priorities such as independent release cadences, API-led integration,



pragmatic cloud modernization, legacy-platform renewal, continuous improvement, and faster paths to production. Serve as a trusted technical advisor to senior technology leaders, architects, and engineering leaders on high-risk or novel decisions. Quality, Standards & Thought Leadership: Define, model, and reinforce software engineering practices across design, development, testing, continuous delivery, observability, production support, security, and applicable regulatory requirements. Improve platform resilience, scalability, maintainability, and total cost of ownership through rationalization, standardization, technical-debt reduction, and lifecycle planning. Champion secure delivery practices, quality engineering, automation, and responsible AI adoption in the software development lifecycle, with appropriate human validation and governance. Act as a force multiplier across Shared Technology Services by pairing, conducting deep technical reviews, co-designing solutions, and helping teams remove blockers. Mentor senior engineers and technical leaders toward Principal-level scope, judgement, and enterprise impact. Build technical communities and shared practices across content services, data platforms, decision-support capabilities, product tooling, integration services, digital channels, and legacy-technology domains.



Represent the organization in internal technical forums and contribute to the broader engineering community. Be accountable for technical outcomes across multiple shared products and initiatives, from inception through development, deployment, operation, and modernization. Partner with senior technology leaders to turn business priorities into transparent, committed platform roadmaps and measurable engineering outcomes. Own or influence critical decisions involving platform performance, scalability, security, production readiness, and technology lifecycle. Help partners engage Shared Technology Services earlier through clearer demand, dependency, and capacity planning. Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and experience. Extensive software development experience, including significant recent hands-on coding and technical leadership across complex production environments. Deep expertise in modern software architecture, system design patterns, APIs, microservices, distributed systems, and major cloud platforms. Strong practical experience with modern programming languages and frameworks in the Java ecosystem, web application development, service interfaces, event-driven integration, relational and non-relational data stores, continuous delivery, automated testing, and observability. Proven success designing scalable, resilient systems and resolving difficult production, performance, security, and integration problems. Experience establishing engineering best practices, reusable frameworks, secure delivery capabilities, and measurable improvements to flow, quality, and reliability. Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to nav

📌 Principal, Software Engineering (Toronto)
🏢 Intact FC
📍 Toronto

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