Core Backend Java Developer

Job Req Id: Location(s):Mississauga, Ontario, CanadaJob Type:HybridPosted:Apr. 30, 2026

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Job Overview

About the company

the company, the leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. the company provides consumers, corporations, governments and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management. Our core activities are safeguarding assets, lending money, making payments and accessing the capital markets on behalf of our clients.

Diversity is a key business imperative and a source of strength at the company. Being the best for our clients requires a culture of inclusion; an environment of equity, respect, and opportunity for everyone. Teams with varied backgrounds and experiences bring different perspectives to the conversation, enhance decision‑making, and improve overall business performance. the company has made it a priority to foster a culture where the best people want to work, where individuals are promoted based on merit, where we value and demand respect for others and where opportunities to develop are widely available to all.

Rates eTrading Tech Overview

The evolution of electronic trading and automation has changed the way that rates products trade forever; driving a need for real‑time, low latency pricing, market making and risk technology. In this increasingly electronic and competitive landscape, the company is key player due to its leading eTrading platform and investment in technology. The Rates eTrading team is at the forefront, by building high‑performance low latency technology that supports the execution of billions of dollars of client trades every day. Our competitive advantage is our technology and having a platform that provides exceptional and dependable trading experience. If you have this kind of vision, capable of seeing ahead, of developing a clear path forward in a quest to try the as yet untried, here is the opportunity.

Job Purpose

We are looking for a talented and passionate individual to join our Java Server development team and continue to evolve our next‑generation rates reference data application.

The successful candidate will gain valuable exposure to the Electronic Trading business and an opportunity to work on a large scale, modern technology platform with a global presence. The team works closely with end users gaining direct exposure to the fast paced world of front office trading and finance.

Responsibilities

• Understanding of good design principles and ability to adhere to complex design
• Development of common, reusable components and services utilizing the company’s best practices
• Responsible for creating high performance, low latency applications leveraging existing the company framework
• Ensuring strong reliability, scalability and performance of our components
• Apply an engineering mind‑set to development work: understand use‑cases in details, develop metrics to build good estimates of volume and compute velocity requirements, understand and discuss openly any implementation limitations or workaround
• Contribute actively to system design decisions
• Evaluate and build POCs for new strategic initiatives and work to convert to industrial level solutions
• Provide post release assistance to business, development and support groups
• Develop application as per best practice and remain compliant with prescribed best practices (TDD, maintain high unit test coverage, CI…)
• Assisting in third line support during core trading hours

Qualifications

Required:

• 8+ years of strong hands‑on development experience using Java including expertise with Spring or another dependency injection framework
• 5+ years’ experience in developing and maintaining highly scalable, real‑time, low latency, high‑volume, scalable microservices
• Experience with real‑time messaging middleware (Kafka, RabbitMQ, Solace, Tibco, …)
• Experience working with multi‑threaded applications
• Strong software development fundamentals, data structures, design patterns, Object‑Oriented programming, architecture, algorithms, and problem‑solving skills
• Application deployment and debugging of applications on UNIX/LINUX

Nice to Have:

• Understanding of capital markets and financial derivatives (rates or other)
• Experience with system performance tuning and low latency Java programming
• Hands‑on experience in database technologies, including RDBMS (Oracle, …) and No SQL (MongoDB)
• Experience with In‑Memory Datastore/Cache libraries (Sol cache, Redis, Apache Ignite, Gemfire, …)
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines
• Test‑driven development, including Unit and End‑to‑End Testing.

Competencies:

• Strong verbal and written communication skills; ability to face off to business users
• Self‑motivated individual and with determination to achieve goals
• Willingness to learn, both technically and professionally
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Good team working skills and ability to work in a distributed global team environment
• Ability to work on a fast‑pace environment; Flexible and able to deliver quality results in the required timeframe

Education

• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience

This job description provides a high‑level review of the types of work performed. Other job‑related duties may be assigned as required.

Job Family Group

Technology-

Job Family

Applications Development-

Time Type

Full time-

Primary Location Full Time Salary Range

$120,800.00 - $170,800.00-

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