Senior Software Engineer

Health & wellbeing resources and programs

Paid vacation, personal, and sick days for work-life balance

Competitive compensation and benefits packages

Work-life balance in a hybrid environment with at least 3 days in office

Career growth and development opportunities

Opportunities to contribute to community causes

Work with diverse team members in an inclusive and collaborative environment

This job posting is for an existing vacancy and the location can be Toronto, ON (5700 Yonge St) OR Calgary, AB (Our Brand-New Office)

The Senior Software Engineer leads the technical design and delivery of complex features and distributed services. This role is responsible for setting engineering standards, mentoring developers, and partnering cross-functionally to ensure scalable and resilient architectures. The Senior Software Engineer also owns service health for key domain components and plays a critical role in incident response and technical hiring

Lead technical design and delivery of complex features and distributed services, documenting architectural trade-offs.

Break down large, ambiguous problems into deliverable increments and sequence them with product partners.

Set and enforce engineering standards for code quality, testing, security, observability, and operational readiness.

Mentor and coach intermediate and junior developers, delivering constructive code reviews and guiding technical growth.

Partner with Enterprise Architecture, Security, and Production Engineering to maintain scalable, resilient, and compliant designs.

Lead incident response for significant outages, driving blameless post-incident reviews to closure with structural fixes.

Own service health for key domain components, managing performance, cloud cost optimization, reliability, and technical debt backlogs.

Contribute to technical hiring by conducting technical assessments and candidate interviews

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

6+ years of experience building, shipping, and operating production software at scale.

Deep expertise in C#/.NET, Java, Node.js/TypeScript, Python, or C++ and surrounding development ecosystems.

Proven track record designing distributed systems, APIs, and data models under production load.

Strong cloud-native experience (GCP preferred), including Kubernetes, Infrastructure-as-Code, and CI/CD at scale.

Demonstrated experience leading technical initiatives across multiple developers without formal authority

Hands-on experience with a major cloud platform (GCP preferred; AWS or Azure considered) and containerized workloads

Preferred Qualifications:

High-availability, high-frequency data streaming, or low-latency financial/trading systems.

SRE practices, capacity planning, or cloud cost optimization (FinOps).

Active technical thought leadership (open-source contributions, technical publications, conference speaking).

Experience building AI/ML-enabled features or data-intensive platforms

Compensation Information:

Base salary range: $100,000- $144,000

The final compensation package will be commensurate with the successful candidate's experience, skills, and geographic location (Canada). It includes a comprehensive benefits plan and a competitive incentive (bonus) program for Full-Time Permanent roles.

At Questrade Financial Group of Companies, with multiple office locations around the world, we are committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible work environment. This is an environment where individuals are treated with dignity and respect. Here, the unique skills and experience you bring will be valued. You will be supported and motivated, so that you can harness your unlimited potential. Our team reflects the diversity of the communities we serve and operate in. Having a collaborative and diverse team helps us push boundaries to bring the future of fintech into existence—not only for the benefit of our customers, but for those who build their career with us.

Questrade Financial Group of companies Applicant Tracking System utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) for application screening. The AI system operates on predetermined criteria, with final decisions subject to human review.

Candidates selected for an interview will be contacted directly. If you require accommodation during the recruitment/selection process, please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.