Senior Software Developer

The opportunity

To analyze, design, develop, and support software solutions required by the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan to meet its business objectives. To contribute business and technical knowledge to relatively complex IT projects.

Who you'll work with

You will be joining a team of passion and experienced application developers who work closely with business team, build and support solutions for supporting OTPP Investment plan.

What you'll do

• With code/design reviews by senior staff, responsible for the timely completion of high quality, well designed and well architected systems that make appropriate use of technology.

• Responsible for completion of an acceptable volume of work and for the communication of status of personal work plans and tasks required to design, develop, and test assigned portion of projects.

• Responsible for maintaining currency in technological trends and directions continually upgrading personal technical and IT related skills through research, education, and self‑motivated technology experimentation.

• Participate in new technology investigation and make recommendations for new technology adoption where appropriate

• Collaborate with business partner, understand business use case, propose technical solution support business needs.

• As directed, lead technical projects and act as mentor to junior development staff

What you'll need

• Computer Science or Engineering degree or equivalent working experience

• Minimum 5 years software design/development experience

• Sound knowledge of current information systems theories, concepts, and techniques

• Good organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills

• Proven experience on developing real time application processing large amount of data

• Minimum 5 years of experience using current software development techniques, including

  • Multi-threading, Multi-process programming

  • Python

  • .NET (C#)

  • Relational database (i.e Oracle)

  • Web Development (i.e. Angular, NgRx, JavaScript, CSS, JSON, WebAPI/REST)

• Experience in the following technologies will be considered as an asset

  • CI/CD tools (i.e. CloudBees, Jenkins, UrbanCode)

  • Cloud development (AKS, Azure Storage, AAD etc.)

• Strong interest in the financial industry required. Ability to dive into complex business domain.

• Excellent communication/customer service skills required for interactions with people of varying levels of technical expertise

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What we’re offering

• Pay-for-performance environment that offers competitive salary and incentive

• Numerous opportunities for professional growth and development

• Comprehensive employer paid benefits coverage

• Retirement income through a defined benefit pension plan

• The opportunity to invest back into the fund through our Deferred Incentive Program

• A flexible/hybrid work environment combining in office collaboration and remote working

• Competitive time off

• Our Flexible Travel Program gives you the option to work abroad in another region/country for up to a month each year

• Employee discount programs including Edvantage and Perkopolis

At Ontario Teachers', diversity is one of our core strengths. We take pride in ensuring that the people we hire and the culture we create, reflect and embrace diversity of thought, background and experience. Through our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion strategy and our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), we celebrate diversity and foster inclusion through events for colleagues to connect for professional development, networking & mentoring. We are building an inclusive and equitable workplace where our talent is respected, accepted and empowered to be themselves. To learn more about our commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, check out Life at Teachers'.

How to apply

Are you ready to pursue new challenges and take your career to the next level? Apply today! You may be invited to complete a pre-recorded digital interview as part of your application.

Accommodations are available upon request (peopleandculture@otpp.com) for candidates with a disability taking part in the recruitment process and once hired.

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