Java Engineer, TD Securities

Work Location:
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Hours:
37.5

Line of Business:
Technology Solutions

Pay Details:
$105,100 - $129,400 CAD

This role is eligible for a discretionary variable compensation award that considers business and individual performance.

TD is committed to providing fair and equitable compensation opportunities to all colleagues. Growth opportunities and skill development are defining features of the colleague experience at TD. Our compensation policies and practices have been designed to allow colleagues to progress through the salary range over time as they progress in their role. The base pay actually offered may vary based upon the candidate's skills and experience, job-related knowledge, geographic location, and other specific business and organizational needs.

As a candidate, you are encouraged to ask compensation related questions and have an open dialogue with your recruiter who can provide you more specific details for this role.

Job Description:

Department Overview

About TD Securities - Global FICC (Fixed Income, Currency, Commodities) Technology

TD Securities is a leading North American investment bank and financial services provider that offers advisory and capital market services to corporate, government, and institutional clients worldwide. We offer a range of services across corporate and investment banking, capital markets, global transaction services, research & strategy and ESG Solutions.

The Global FICC Technology group aims to drive business growth for our partners in the Front-Office, Operations and beyond. We do this with a mandate of delivering innovative new products, expanding our trading tool capabilities and modernizing critical platforms.

About The Team

The Realtime, Electronic & Automation team builds and operates the digital and real-time platforms that power trading and client connectivity across the Precious Metals, Base Metals, and FX Options businesses. We sit at the intersection of trading, real-time systems, automation, and market connectivity, delivering technology that directly enables automated trading workflows, accelerates new business ideas, and integrates seamlessly with internal and external market infrastructure.

We own our systems front-to-back - from low-latency services and real-time data flows through to the user interfaces used daily on trading desks. While our platforms are technically demanding and mission-critical, the quality of our user experience is equally important. The interfaces we build are highly visible, widely used by Sales and Trading, and consistently praised for their clarity, performance, and design - giving engineers rare, direct feedback and recognition for their work.

The team operates as a small, high-performing engineering unit with a strong culture of ownership and accountability. Engineers are trusted to lead meaningful workstreams end-to-end: shaping problem statements with the business, designing architecture, producing high quality code, and delivering production systems that support live trading activity. This is an environment for engineers who want to take responsibility, make decisions, and see the real-world impact of their work.

What you'll do

Role & Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain robust, scalable backend services and APIs using Java (versions 17 and 21) with Spring Boot, contributing to critical platforms such as Metals Orderbook, Auctionbook, STP, and other real-time services.
• Build high-performance, secure, and maintainable server-side solutions, integrating with relational databases (Azure SQL Server) and NoSQL databases (MongoDB), and ensuring reliable integration with front-end applications.
• Work closely with business stakeholders in the Commodities Metals domain within Capital Markets to understand requirements and translate them into effective technical solutions, with guidance from senior engineers where appropriate.
• Contribute to solutions deployed across both on-premises and Azure cloud environments, applying best practices for hybrid infrastructure and modern cloud-native development.
• Take ownership of backend components within projects, ensuring high code quality, maintainability, and alignment with established architectural patterns and standards.
• Diagnose and resolve production issues, participating in root cause analysis and implementing fixes that improve system stability, performance, and reliability.
• Actively adopt and contribute to modern DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines (TeamCity, Maven, GitHub), automated testing, and deployment processes to improve development efficiency and code quality.
• Ensure backend components are developed with extensibility, security, and compliance in mind, following enterprise standards and industry best practices.
• Contribute to the ongoing evolution of the backend architecture by evaluating new technologies, frameworks, and approaches, and sharing recommendations with the team.
• Participate actively in code reviews, technical discussions, and design sessions, providing constructive feedback and learning from peers and senior engineers.
• Continuously develop expertise in the Java ecosystem and related technologies, demonstrating a strong passion for engineering excellence and a desire to grow into broader technical and leadership responsibilities.

Our Technology Stack

• Backend: Java (versions 17/21), Spring Boot, WebSocket, Rest API, Solace, FIX Protocol
• Frontend: React, Typescript, React Router, React Query, AgGrid
• Client-side Interop: Glue42 ( interop.io )
• Styling: CSS & SCSS modules
• Build Tools: Maven, Vite
• Testing: Vitest, Jest, Junit, Mockito, AssertJ, JaCoCo, Sonarqube
• Database: MongoDB, Azure SQL Server
• CI/CD: Teamcity, Maven, Azure, Github

Who you are

We're looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.

Minimum Requirements

• 3+ years of professional, hands-on software development experience building and supporting production systems.
• Strong working knowledge of Java, with experience developing backend services using modern Java versions and frameworks such as Spring Boot.
• Experience contributing to distributed and/or event-driven systems in a production environment.
• Exposure to low-latency or real-time systems, ideally within financial services, trading platforms, or similarly performance-sensitive domains.
• Familiarity with electronic trading concepts such as order lifecycles, market data, FIX connectivity, or trading workflows (deep expertise not required).
• Experience working with messaging or streaming technologies (e.g. Kafka, Aeron, Solace, or similar).
• Ability to take ownership of technical deliverables within a project, contributing across design, implementation, testing, deployment, and production support with support from senior engineers.
• Solid understanding of core software engineering best practices, including clean code, basic system design principles, performance considerations, observability, and operational reliability.
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams, including other engineers, product owners, or business stakeholders.
• Good written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly explain technical concepts and participate constructively in team discussions.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a collaborative, multi-stakeholder environment and a willingness to learn from feedback and mentorship.

Additional Information

Join in on what others in TD Technology Solutions are doing:

• Inspire a positive work environment and help champion quality, innovation, teamwork and service to the business.
• Learn voraciously, stretch your thinking, share your knowledge and educate others.
• Communicate and collaborate with both technical and non-technical professionals.
• Cultivate winning relationships by building trust with business and technology partners.
• Share our commitment to productivity, effectiveness and operational efficiency.

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Who We Are:

TD Securities offers a wide range of capital markets products and services to corporate, government, and institutional clients who choose us for our innovation, execution, and experience. With more than 6,500 professionals operating out of 40 cities across the globe, we strive to make every interaction, product and experience remarkably human and refreshingly simple. Our services include underwriting and distributing new issues, providing trusted advice and industry-leading insight, extending access to global markets, and delivering integrated transaction banking solutions. In 2023, we acquired Cowen Inc., offering our clients access to a premier U.S. equities business and highly-diverse equity research franchise, while growing our strong, diversified investment bank.

Together, we are reimagining what banking can be for our clients, colleagues and communities.

Our Total Rewards Package
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. Learn more

Additional Information:
We're delighted that you're considering building a career with TD. 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.

Please be advised that this job opportunity is subject to provincial regulation for employment purposes. It is imperative to acknowledge that each province or territory within the jurisdiction of Canada may have its own set of regulations, requirements.

Colleague Development

If you're interested in a specific career path or are looking to build certain skills, we want to help you succeed. 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.

If you're passionate about helping clients and building deep, lasting relationships, TD offers diverse career paths where you can grow your expertise and make a meaningful impact.

We're committed to your success and foster a respectful workplace where diverse perspectives are valued, everyone has fair opportunities to grow, and you can unlock your full potential to achieve your career goals. Here at TD, we hire and develop the best.

Training & Onboarding
We will provide training and onboarding sessions to ensure that you've got everything you need to succeed in your new role.

Interview Process
We'll reach out to candidates of interest to schedule an interview. We do our best to communicate outcomes to all applicants by email or phone call.

Accommodation
Your accessibility is important to us. Please let us know if you'd like accommodations (including accessible meeting rooms, captioning for virtual interviews, etc.) to help us remove barriers so that you can participate throughout the interview process.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Language Requirement (Quebec only):
Sans Objet