Software Engineer II

Job Details

Work Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Line Of Business: Technology Solutions

Pay Range: $81,600 - $115,200 CAD

Job Description Customer

Develop new solutions as required for engineering programs and projects within assigned area

Develop new features and perform unit/component tests for new application development initiatives aligned to business needs and technology architecture standards

Support business enquiries and activities through execution of small enhancements and break/fix implementations (e.g., source code changes); may also be responsible for peer code review.

Work with technology partners to ensure configuration and custom components meet application requirements and performance goals

Analyze technical requirements to recommend pragmatic and sound engineering solutions for own area, may be involved in coding/story estimates

Work with other stakeholders, internal technology partners to ensure engineering solutions meet technical direction, requirements, performance, time‑to‑market and innovation goals

Monitor product lifecycles, ensuring specifications and functionality support business objectives and engineering decisions, undertaking re‑development where required

Document and verify system components, applications, system infrastructure, security, integration, operability and engineering related architecture designs associated with a program or project

Participate in quality management reviews, in particular reviews of the designs, prototypes and other requirements work products to ensure they fulfill the requirements

Create and maintain quality code, ensure defect free programming consistent with standards; provide code maintenance and support during testing cycles and post‑production deployment and participate in reviewing peer coding

Provide technical expertise during Incident management, analyze incident reports and outages, perform impact assessment for incidents and facilitate internal and external communication throughout incident resolution

Participate in identifying and recommending development/testing solutions/tools in support of project/application objectives

Assist in the development/maintenance of comprehensive processes for prevention of issues and participate in problem determination and timely resolution of incidents applying appropriate quality measures

Shareholder

Adhere to enterprise frameworks or methodologies that relate to software engineering activities

Ensure respective programs/policies/practices are well managed, meet business needs, comply with internal and external requirements, and align with business priorities

Collaboratively engage with relevant stakeholders at all levels, both internal and external, to shift from finding defects to proactively preventing defects

Actively seek and support continuous improvement and automation opportunities within the engineering practice

Conduct 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

Conduct 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

Monitor service, productivity and assess efficiency levels within own function and implement continuous process/performance improvements where opportunities exists

Lead/facilitate and/or implement actions/remediation plans to address performance/risk/governance issues

Actively manage relationships within and across various business lines, corporate and/or control functions and ensure alignment with enterprise and/or regulatory requirements

Protect the interests of the organization – identify and manage risks, and elevate non‑standard, high risk activities as necessary

Keep abreast of emerging issues, trends, and evolving regulatory requirements and assess potential impacts

Maintain a culture of risk management and control, supported by effective processes in alignment with risk appetite

Employee / Team

Participate fully as a member of the team, support a positive work environment that promotes service to the business, quality, innovation and teamwork and ensure timely communication of issues/points of interest

Provide thought leadership and/or industry knowledge for quality engineering best practices and participate in knowledge transfer within the team and business unit

Keep current on emerging trends/developments and grow knowledge of the business, related tools and techniques

Participate in personal performance management and development activities, including cross training within own team

Keep 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 mentor and enable team members by sharing knowledge and leveraging engineering best practices

Support the team by providing guidance and proactively identifying and resolving issues

Lead, motivate and develop relationships with internal and external business partners/stakeholders to develop productive working relationships

Contribute to a fair, positive and equitable environment that supports a diverse workforce

Act as a brand ambassador for your business area/function and the bank, both internally and/or externally

Breadth & Depth

Advanced knowledge of specific domain or range of engineering frameworks, technology, tools, processes and procedures, as well as organization issues

Performs complex to difficult technical tasks independently

Advanced knowledge of technology, tools, various programming languages, processes, and procedures

Develops program specifications; adapts, integrates, codes, tests and debugs programs; and is responsible for executing

Uses existing procedures to solve routine problems; makes limited exceptions

Generally reports to a Practice lead

Responsibilities

Application design and development activities; hands‑on experience developing Java Springboot applications

Strong prior engineering background delivering distributed applications and service‑based architectures, including:

Java, NodeJS (or comparable modern backend runtime)

Event streaming/messaging through Kafka, MQ

API development patterns (RESTful APIs, bulk volume transaction handling, service contracts, integration patterns, rate limiting)

Transformation of code from nodejs to spring boot

Strong experience in RDBMS database like Oracle, DB2, etc.

Experience with Azure cloud environments – ASPs

Experience with observability tools like Dynatrace

Experience driving automation across CI/CD pipelines and engineering workflows (build/test/release/configuration)

Strong collaboration skills across Architecture, Platform, Security, and Operations teams, with the ability to communicate technical decisions and tradeoffs clearly

Experience on AI‑driven engineering and reliability patterns in distributed systems, including intelligent automation

Experience And / Or Education

Expertise in Java programming

Undergraduate degree, Postgraduate degree or Technical Certificate

Strong academic background (e.g., computer science, engineering)

3–5 years relevant experience

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 a base salary, variable compensation, and several other key plans such as health and well‑being benefits, savings and retirement programs, paid time off, banking benefits and discounts, career development, and reward and recognition programs.

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