Senior Java Engineer (React)

Title: Senior Java Engineer

Type: 6-month contract + opportunity to extend

Location: 1 Queen Street East, Toronto

Work Model: Hybrid (4 days on-site)

Day-to-Day Responsibilities

• Refactor and decompose a large monolithic application into microservices.
• Design, develop, and maintain backend services using Java and Spring Boot.
• Contribute to architecture discussions, service boundaries, and technical design decisions.
• Develop and deploy cloud-native applications in AWS.
• Build and enhance React-based UI components
• Collaborate with developers, business analysts, and Capital Markets stakeholders.
• Ensure systems are highly performant, secure, resilient, and scalable.
• Participate in code reviews and engineering best practices.

Must-Have Skills

Backend Development

• 10+ years of enterprise Java development experience.
• Advanced Spring Boot expertise.
• Proven experience building and refactoring microservices architectures.
• Experience designing and developing distributed, high-performance systems.

Frontend Development

• Hands-on React development experience.
• Comfortable contributing to frontend features and UI enhancements

Cloud & DevOps

• Cloud- AWS experience (preferred)

Capital Markets Experience (if they don't have capital markets, should at least come from financial services/ retail banking).

• Public Markets experience.
• FX experience.
• Equities experience.
• Derivatives experience.
• Understanding of front-office trading workflows.

Soft Skills

• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced engineering environment.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience with portfolio management or trading platforms.
• AWS cloud-native services experience.
• Mockito and automated testing frameworks.
• Exposure to AI/ML concepts.
• Experience working in highly regulated financial environments.