Lead Software Engineer

We are looking for a Lead Software Engineer! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!

Type of Employment: Contact
Title: Lead Software Engineer
Term: 6-month contract – 37.5 hours
Location: Toronto – Hybrid, must be comfortable with 3-4 days in person
Job ID number: C1102

Brief description of duties:

• Analyzing features such as feasibility, associated costs, time, and the compatibility of new programs with existing programs, and hardware. Ensuring that expected application performance levels are achieved.
• Consulting on business assessment and requirements analysis processes, for the development of hardware and operating systems.
• Performing complex application programming activities, including coding, testing, debugging, documenting, maintaining, and modifying complex applications programs.
• Coordinating coding, testing, implementation and documentation of application solutions.

MUST haves:

• 5- 10 years of experience in-depth understanding of architectural patterns of Micro-service architecture.
• hands-on experience with building secure, scalable, performant and highly available APIs
• Team leadership and management skills
• API Development language and frameworks, such as Java/Spring Boot (preferred), NodeJS, Python
• Experience building REST API, hands on experience with API gateway such as Apigee.
• Relational database (PostgreSQL, Oracle, for example) and/or document database (MongoDB), Data modelling, data query (SQL,, e.g.) and ETL.
• Integration technology and frameworks such as Apache Camel, Kafka, MQ, JMS and Spring Integration.
• Familiarity with Container concept, architecture, tools and framework, hands on experience preferred
• Understanding and experience with one commercial cloud solutions such as Azure (preferred), GCP, AWS
• Knowledge and experience with DevOPS/CICD pipelines and tools such as JIRA, Github, Jenkins, UCD
• Agile methodology such as Scrum, SAFe and Kanban