Associate Software Engineer Job Details | Scotiabank

Toronto, ON

Full-time

Onsite

Entry Level

Scotiabank is a leading bank in the Americas committed to helping customers, families, and communities achieve success through a broad range of financial services. The Associate Software Engineer will develop and maintain cloud platforms, developer-facing tools, internal portals, and scalable infrastructure while supporting application teams and promoting cloud-native development best practices.

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Responsibilities

Develop and maintain cloud platforms, services and components to enable safe enterprise-wide use of common cloud functionality
Build and maintain developer-facing tools for interacting with various cloud platform technologies
Create intuitive onboarding experiences and documentation for cloud services
Develop internal portals and dashboards that simplify cloud resource management
Advocate for developer needs in cloud architecture and product decisions
Have Level 3 support responsibilities
Design, Implement and refactor code
Participate in design discussions focused on scalability and design and implementation best practices
Ensure software, programs and applications are developed and/or configured to meet high availability, integrity and reliability requirements
Work with other engineers and architects on breaking-down, scoping and estimating tasks
Participate in planning and retrospective sessions, attending stand-ups, etc
Build and operate the highly available and scalable software and infrastructure
Support application teams on the use of the platform including providing guidance on design patterns, best practices, and security considerations
You will be asked to provide peer review and quality control on a daily basis

Qualification

Required

Enthusiasm for cloud platform/components/services development and developer experience
Enthusiasm for bleeding edge technologies and patterns
Strong desire to learn, grow yourself and your team
Strong programming skills in at least 3 object-oriented and/or scripting languages (i.e. JavaScript, Java, Python)
Experience in developing with a modern technology stack (i.e. React, Spring Boot)
Experience working with relational databases and non-relational databases
Experience working with AI coding assistants
Understanding of software development life cycle as well as related technologies
Understanding of essential web application security concerns
Understanding of cloud DevOps (i.e. GitOps, CI/CD)
Bachelor's degree or higher in computer science or engineering/mathematics discipline
Experience working within Canadian financial institutions

Preferred

Bonus competency: Experience with cloud platforms (i.e. Azure, GCP) and cloud-native patterns
Bonus competency: Experience with container orchestration (i.e. Kubernetes)
Bonus competency: Experience building internal developer platforms or portals
Bonus competency: UX sensibilities for developer-facing interfaces
Bonus competency: Experience with agentic coding tools

Benefits

Opportunities for employees to learn, grow, and participate through various Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)
Upskilling through online courses
Cross-functional development opportunities
Tuition assistance
Competitive Rewards program including bonus
Flexible vacation
Personal days
Sick days
Benefits starting on day one
Opportunities for community engagement and belonging through programs such as hackathons, contests, and Humans of Digital

Scotiabank is a banking firm that provides banking and financial services.

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