Full Stack Application / Web Developer

Summary:

• Location: Montreal (day 1 onboarding onsite / in-office presence required 3x/week)
• Contract Position: 12 Months
• Years of Experience: 5-7

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop scalable and maintainable applications and APIs (Java, React).
• Integrate workflow services and other teams' APIs as needed.
• Implement and maintain databases (SQL or NoSQL), including schema design and optimization.
• Perform code reviews and provide constructive feedback to peers.
• Maintain and enhance automated test suites, deployment pipelines, and documentation.
• Perform testing and coordinate deployments to testing and production environments.
• Respond to user feedback and support requests, troubleshoot and resolve incidents in a timely manner.
• Participate in agile ceremonies (stand-ups, sprint planning, reviews, retrospectives) and horizontal design forums.
• Collaborate closely with other workflow team members and leads on cross-cutting product features.
• Stay updated with new technologies, frameworks, and agile methodologies.

Required Skills:

• Strong understanding of modern application design, including microservices architecture.
• Strong Java knowledge.
• Solid understanding of REST APIs.
• Hands-on experience with relational databases and SQL skills.
• Excellent analytical ability, strong problem-solving, and debugging skills.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills.
• Experience with DevOps and deployment pipelines, containerization.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with modern UI technologies (React/Redux preferred), UX design.
• Experience with Spring Boot.
• Hands-on experience with MongoDB or other NoSQL databases.
• Experience in automated testing frameworks, TDD/BDD.

Team Profile:

• Credit Risk is the risk of loss to a lender or investor due to the borrower's default or inability to fulfill the terms of a financial contract.
• The Credit Risk Limits and Approvals team provides technology solutions focused on credit risk limits: implementing workflows to set and maintain them and maintaining systems to monitor them against counterparty exposures at various levels and entities.
• The team also owns a number of other business solutions including daily task management, approvals, authority entitlements, and credit portfolio reporting in close collaboration with business partners.
• We are looking for a backend/full stack (ideally) application developer with web-based front-end (HTML5/JavaScript/CSS/React) and backend (Java/Spring) expertise to help us design and develop scalable and robust web applications that support the Credit Risk department.
• The system is a complex distributed global platform with a rich user interface, communicating with backend services primarily written in Java.
• Credit Risk IT has adopted agile methodology as part of the company's shift away from the traditional waterfall approach. Teamwork and structure are set in line with agile - with strong collaboration with the Scrum Master, Product Owner, and Chapter Lead.