Software Engineer III (US)-2

TD Bank • New York, NY

5d • $140,000 - $225,000

About The Position

We can't afford to be boring. Neither can you. The scale and scope of what TD does may surprise you. The rapid pace of change makes it a business imperative for us to be smart and open-minded in the way we think about technology. TD's technology and business teams become more intertwined as new opportunities present themselves. This new era in banking does not equal boring. Not at TD, anyway. TD Securities is the wholesale banking arm of TD Bank Financial Group, one of Canada’s largest financial institutions and a global leader in on-line financial services. TD Securities provides a wide range of capital market products and services to corporate, government and institutional clients in five key business areas: Investment Banking, Debt Capital Markets, Foreign Exchange, Institutional Equities and Private Equity. The Market Risk Technology Engineering Team (in TD Securities) is responsible for the development and support of our derivatives (Interest Rate, FX, Credit, Commodity) valuation, trading risk and enterprise market risk for our organization. Our applications are hybrid cloud based and consist of: Risk & Capital Studio, Valuation Services and Curve & Volatility Generation. The main team is in Toronto and New York. The Market Risk Technology Engineering Team is looking to on-board a self-starting, high-performing Java software engineer with a strong engineering mindset to help us grow our risk & valuation applications through software design and its implementation in Java. This is an excellent opportunity to contribute to the strategic growth and implementation of our risk & valuation applications Development Opportunities include: Migrating to a new cloud environment Building new and refactoring legacy applications Influencing the overall architectural direction Assist in our software evolution from batch orientated end of day to intra-day Leading development of crucial software components Inspiring and mentoring team members on the use of software development best practices The Software Engineer III leads the creation of comprehensive end-to-end detailed solutions for projects and platforms with overall accountability for the technical design and delivery of a specific technical solution based on requirements from stakeholders. Develops and maintains technical solutions, ensuring adherence to engineering and architectural design principles while meeting business requirements. Provides technical expertise with a focus on efficiency, reliability, scalability, and security; includes planning, evaluating, recommending, designing, operationalizing, and supporting solutions in compliance with enterprise and industry standards. Ultimately, providing expert advice and lead in system / application administration, installation, configuration / provisioning, platform planning and design, integration and release / deployment management.

Requirements

• Undergraduate Degree or Technical Certificate
• 10-15+ years of Java experience
• Experience in the Spring tech stack and building microservices using Spring Boot
• Experience in designing and integrating with REST APIs, gRPC endpoints.
• Experience working with messaging technologies (Kafka)
• Experience with Hadoop, Spark, Parquet or similar Big Data technologies
• Experience with RDBMS, demonstrable fluency in SQL
• Experience of Git, CI/CD toolset (Maven / Gradle), Jenkins, working within an Agile environment
• Strong understanding of clean coding practices
• Experience working with scalable and low latency systems
• A passion for simplifying and automating work, for making things better, for being efficient and helping others
• Strong communication skills.
• Experience in collaborating efficiently within a global team.
• Demonstrable experience working in a fast-paced environment, working with PMs and our business sponsors.

Nice To Haves

• (ZeroMQ, Google ProtoBuf – a plus)
• Knowledge of capital markets products including derivatives and cross-asset products
• Hands-on experience with market risk, trade valuations, FRTB, VaR and stress testing processes a huge plus
• Graduate degree nice to have

Responsibilities

• Executes on Engineering strategy as it relates to the introduction of tools and the automation of build, test, release and configures activities across Application, Platform and Infrastructure
• Leads the creation of solution options and ultimately a comprehensive end-to-end solution and coordinate relevant stakeholders, as required to support development initiatives; following a "build it, break it, fix it mentality".
• Is responsible for developing and documenting detailed solution design and act as an application SME through the design and development lifecycle ensuring alignment with Architecture
• Is accountable for complex applications/systems development, programming /coding
• Develops functional, technical and user interface designs for an application / system that meets the defined requirements (business, enterprise architecture direction, system performance and development standards)
• Consults on development of requirements and specifications and apply functional knowledge of business functions to design optimal software / systems
• Reviews technical deliverables throughout detailed design and development phase to ensure quality adherence and identify gaps or redesign requirements as needed
• Identifies, recommends, sources, negotiates and implements improvements/ solutions (buy/build/reuse) to enhance customer experience, availability, and/or reduce cost in support of client needs
• Works with Technology partners to define metrics and performance goals for the application
• Identifies and addresses application and data issues and cross-capability and cross-release issues that affect application integrity
• Researches/analyzes business requirements to evaluate and recommend optimal solutions within business technology architecture; collects environment requirements for infrastructure implementation by analyzing the current system environment, using technical tools and utilities
• Works with Architects to ensure that environment modifications interact appropriately, data conversion impacts are considered, and other areas of impact are addressed and meet performance requirements of the project
• Contributes to the advancement of the TD engineering practice through strong collaboration, research, analytic, and problem-solving skills
• Adheres to enterprise frameworks or methodologies that relate to software engineering activities
• Ensures respective programs/ policies/practices are well managed, meets business needs, complies with internal and external requirements, and aligns with business priorities
• Collaboratively engages with relevant stakeholders at all levels, both internal and external, to shift from finding defects to proactively preventing defects
• Actively seeks and supports continuous improvement and automation opportunities within the engineering practice
• Conducts meaningful analysis at the functional or enterprise level using results to draw conclusions, make recommendations, assess the effectiveness of programs/ policies/ practices
• Identify opportunities to minimize cost, provide recommendations and/or deliver corresponding strategic solutions to support cost effectiveness and to enhance stakeholder experience
• Conducts code reviews to ensure adherence to quality, standards compliance, reusability and ease of maintenance, Operational Readiness Reviews, and supporting gating and review sign-offs for solution design
• Monitors service, productivity and assesses efficiency levels within own function and implement continuous process / performance improvements where opportunities exists
• Leads / facilitates and/or implements actions / remediation plans to address performance / risk /governance issues
• Actively manages relationships within and across various business lines, corporate and/or control functions and ensures alignment with enterprise and/or regulatory requirements
• Protects the interests of the organization – identifies and manage risks, and escalates non-standard, high risk activities as necessary
• Keeps abreast of emerging issues, trends, and evolving regulatory requirements and assesses potential impacts
• Maintains a culture of risk management and control, supported by effective processes in alignment with risk appetite
• Participates fully as a member of the team, supports a positive work environment that promotes service to the business, quality, innovation and teamwork and ensures timely communication of issues/ points of interest
• Provides thought leadership and/ or industry knowledge for quality engineering best practices and participates in knowledge transfer within the team and business unit
• Keeps current on emerging trends/ developments and grows knowledge of the business, related tools and techniques
• Participates in personal performance management and development activities, including cross training within own team
• Keeps others informed and up-to-date about the status / progress of projects and / or all relevant or useful information related to day-to-day activities
• Actively mentors and enables team members by sharing knowledge and leveraging engineering best practices
• Supports the team by providing guidance and proactively identifying and resolving issues
• Leads, motivates and develops relationships with internal and external business partners / stakeholders to develop productive working relationships
• Contributes to a fair, positive and equitable environment that supports a diverse workforce
• Acts as a brand ambassador for your business area/function and the bank, both internally and/or externally

Benefits

• Our Total Rewards package reflects the investments we make in our colleagues to help them and their families achieve their financial, physical and mental well-being goals.
• Total Rewards at TD includes base salary and variable compensation/incentive awards (e.g., eligibility for cash and/or equity incentive awards, generally through participation in an incentive plan) and several other key plans such as health and well-being benefits, savings and retirement programs, paid time off (including Vacation PTO, Flex PTO, and Holiday PTO), banking benefits and discounts, career development, and reward and recognition.
• Through regular development conversations, training programs, and a competitive benefits plan, we’re committed to providing the support our colleagues need to thrive both at work and at home.
• You’ll have regular career, development, and performance conversations with your manager, as well as access to an online learning platform and a variety of mentoring programs to help you unlock future opportunities.
• We will provide training and onboarding sessions to ensure that you’ve got everything you need to succeed in your new role.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level