Job Title: Lead Software Engineer

Location: Toronto, ON M5J 2V5 - Hybrid (2-3 days onsite)

Duration: 6+ months with possible extension

Summary

• We are seeking a resourceful, focused and experienced individual to join our team as a full-stack Software Engineer. You will be part of a team that actively collaborates with business peers to develop Java-based applications used by top firms in the financial securities industry. We are looking for well-rounded software developers who work well with iterative development methodologies to build high quality, professional web-based and back-end server applications. The ideal candidate will have experience using Spring Boot, React JS and AWS.

Responsibilities Include:

• Review application requirements and business processes
• Actively contribute to design sessions and team discussions
• Develop features from requirements to completion with limited supervision
• Write unit and integration tests that verify requirements are met
• Review code and provide feedback on what can be improved
• Debug issues that arise; implement and deploy fixes
• Improve application performance and enhance product usability
• Work in an agile environment; iterate over greenfield development and adapt to requirement changes
• Ability to work remotely

Required Skills:

• OO design/development (Java/Spring Boot)
• Understanding of Dependency Injection/IoC
• JPA/SQL
• Experience building multi-threaded solutions handling high data load.
• Experience with modern UI frameworks (ReactJS)
• Experience writing unit and integration tests (JUnit/Mockito)
• Comfortable using git as a version control system (GitLab)

Other Skills:

• Experience with cloud services (AWS)
• Experience with Kubernetes
• Linux based development (scripting, deployment)
• Experience setting up CI/CD
• Typescript
• Docker
• Kafka
• Redis
• Gradle
• Willingness to learn new technologies
• Familiar with Jira and Confluence

About Us: SPECTRAFORCE is one of the fastest-growing workforce solutions firms in the United States. As a diversity-owned business, we place human connection at the heart of everything we do, building strong relationships with both clients and candidates to fill roles successfully. Our teams in North and Central America and India serve more than 150 Fortune clients globally, leveraging custom AI technology to provide direct hire, executive search, nearshoring, offshoring, and project staffing solutions.

Benefits: SPECTRAFORCE offers a Group Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) Program to all eligible employees. We also offer an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and an employee discount program, which provides exclusive access to thousands of discounts on travel, entertainment, and more. SPECTRAFORCE offers unpaid leave as well as paid sick leave, paid holidays, and paid vacation as required by law.

Equal Opportunity Employer: SPECTRAFORCE is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant based on race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, family status, genetic characteristics, disability, conviction for an offence for which a pardon has been granted or in respect of which a record suspension has been ordered, or any other prohibited grounds as identified by provincial or territorial law. Please contact Human Resources at if you require reasonable accommodation.

At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws.