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Senior Java Developers
Banking/Finance/Investment
Toronto Ontario Staffing Contract Jun 12, 2026

Senior JAVA Developer

  • Must have Banking / Financial Services domain, with Payment Technologies experience
  • Required Technical Skills:
    • Java 21, Spring Boot
    • Microservices Architecture and event-based Microservices development.
    • API Development, API Integrations, API gateways, API Security, APIGEE for API Management, Payment APIs, API testing

Work Style: Hybrid – Currently 3 days a week, but in the next quarter it will be 4 days a week
Location: Downtown Toronto 
Anticipated Start Date: 2-3 weeks from offer
Pay rate: Up to $75 per hour (on Incorp). The final compensation will be negotiated between the contractor and recruiter based on experience and engagement terms.

Role Title: Senior Java Developer
End Client: TD Bank
Contract: 1-year term
Number of Positions: 5

Job Description


About this Role

Come build High Value Payments with us! We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to work on a broad range of features.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will:
  • Develop and implement highly complex and custom components.
  • Work closely with other Developers, Designers, Solution Architects, and Engineers to create and maintain quality system and infrastructure designs that are maintainable, performant, reliable, scalable, and secure.
  • Provide technical coordination for large projects that span multiple teams and cover a diverse spectrum of technologies
  • Provide technical guidance to Product Teams (Pods) consisting of Software Engineers, Product Owners, Business Systems Analysts, Scrum Masters and of course our QA engineering group.
  • Ensure we have the proper tools in place so that we can ensure our applications are free of common coding vulnerabilities and we follow standard security practices.

As a Team-member, you will:
  • Apply and share your technical expertise and experience.
  • Define our next unit and integration test frameworks and standards.
  • Proactively put forward ideas that speak to project objectives (e.g. development, testing solutions, and tools)
  • Actively participate in Agile ceremonies
  • Contribute to project management activities such as: scope assessment and analysis (e.g. T-shirt sizing and Story Mapping), identifying risks and recommending mitigation measures, as well as escalating and communicating possible issues.
  • Communicate and collaborate with the broader product team to develop and refine features.


 

Role Requirements


Essentials:
  • 10 - 15 years of experience as a Software Engineer developing and delivering scalable and high-throughput projects, with at least 5 – 10 years of experience as a Senior
  • Experience in:
    • Java / Spring / Spring Boot / Spring Security
    • RESTful APIs, OAuth
    • Microservice architecture and containerization
    • Messaging Queues
    • Kafka cloud or local
    • Large mission critical online applications design and infrastructure configuration
    • Relational and non-relational databases (MS SQL / Oracle / Mongo DB)
    • SCM and task trackers - Bitbucket/Git, JIRA and Confluence
  • Ability to deconstruct requirements into sizeable work tasks.
  • Ability to communicate with non-technical members of the team.
  • Effective time and task management skills, including the ability to manage concurrent deliverables.
  • Self-motivated team player with high energy and ability to work independently as well as within teams.
  • Creative problem-solving skills
  • Readiness and motivation (as a Senior / Lead Developer) to address and resolve complex and multi-faceted development-related issues, often independently.
  • Ability to work autonomously in a lead capacity on a diverse range of activities (e.g. design, support of technical business solutions).
  • Strength in collaborating with clients, partners, and peer project teams.
  • Commitment to and belief in the quality of your deliverables.
  • Undergraduate Degree

Nice to have:
  • React, Angular or similar technologies.
  • Working experience in Agile methodology.
  • Familiarity with Maven, Jenkins, Nexus
  • Familiarity with DevOps and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Elasticsearch and AI generative models experience
  • Network Layer Design Experience / Knowledge