Software Developer Short Term Contract Jobs in Toronto, ON

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Job Description:

Role:Software Developer (Temporary)

Role Type: 3 Month Fixed Term Contract

Department:R&D

Reports to:Manager, Software Engineering

Location:Stouffville, ON (Hybrid)

Salary:$80,000 - $85,000

Who we are:

At Portfolio+, we empower financial institutions with secure, scalable, and customer-first solutions. As a proudly Canadian company, we're at the forefront of open finance, delivering cutting-edge cloud technology that simplifies operations, enhances security, and drives innovation. Our team thrives in a collaborative, growth-oriented environment where ideas matter, and impact is real. If you're passionate about fintech, innovation, and making a difference, Portfolio+ is the place to build your career.

Who you are:

As a Software Developer with Portfolio+, you will play a key role in shaping and enhancing our financial software solutions, empowering customers to achieve their goals. Leveraging your expertise in financial systems, programming, and analysis, you will contribute to building innovative, reliable, and high-performance products. These products will assist Canadians in managing their day-to-day banking with our Canadian bank partners.

What you are accountable for

• Technical requirements including design and usage documentation for your amazing code and deliverables in collaboration with Technical Publications.

• Using Agile methodologies and your knowledge of our systems, languages, and tooling, the breakdown of Epics and User stories into discrete digestible sprint-based Tasks.

• Active participation in retrospectives, code reviews, and paired programming initiatives/POCs to implement and improve best practices.

• Timely updates of timesheets and the tasks assigned to you. This includes updates to estimates, sprint deliverables, POCs, Innovation, etc.

• Effective whitespace management. You seek to help others where possible.

• Shift-left testing methodologies inclusive of functional and performance testing, DAST/SAST testing, and CI/CD integration.

• Meaningful contribution to our Software Communities of Practice. You identify opportunities for Continuous Improvement and vigorously lobby for action. This includes SDLC/S-SDLC, CI/CD and DevOps Culture migration, Process Improvements, Tech Radar Management, mentoring/training/onboarding, etc.

• Effective and positive communication. Energy, pride, and passion are foundational to your approach.

• Supporting our DevOps culture. You actively support the code you write via a Guard Duty model.

• You hold yourself and your team to a high bar and deliver to your commitments.

What you bring to the team

• You have a computer science, software engineering or similar university degree, or equivalent professional experience.

• You have 5+ years' working experience in software engineering.

• You are adept at modern software development methodologies and are well-versed in DevOps/DevSecOps and Agile methodologies.

• You understand the need for and can push Quality Left. You have a keen awareness of, and have utilized, test automation frameworks.

• You understand Enterprise architecture, design patterns, and hold yourself and your peers to a high standard.

• You have a passion for all things technology and have a history of delivering high-quality software, products, and services.

• You are self-motivated and have a results-driven approach to solving problems and see this as an opportunity.

• You are flexible and adaptable to changing priorities.

• You want to leave your indelible mark and drive transformation and best-in-class processes and products.

Technical Experience:

• You have experience developing in modern Object-Oriented programming languages (C#/C++, Java, Python, Golang, Rust, etc.)

• You have dabbled in or have working experience with Prompt Engineering frameworks and concepts.

• You have knowledge of or working experience with Enterprise Architecture design patterns and tooling.

• You have working experience with SQL/NoSQL databases and have an awareness of object and data modeling techniques.

• You have experience using RESTful API standards and protocols.

• You have knowledge of modern software testing techniques, Test-Driven Development methods and practices, and integration and acceptance testing and can apply them effectively.

• You are knowledgeable and/or are proficient usingvarious toolsthat support the SDLC processsuch as:

• Version Control Systems (VCS)- GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket.

• Continuous Integrations (CI)- Jenkins, Bamboo,

• Build Tools- Gradle, Ant, Maven

• Testing Tools- ReadyAPI, Postman/Newman, Junit

• Artifact Repositories- AWS CodeArtifact, AWS ECR, JFrog Artifactory, Harbor.

• Continuous Deployment/Delivery (CD)- Helm, Argo CD

• Containerization & Orchestration- Docker, Rancher, Kubernetes

• Security & Compliance (DevSecOps)- X-Ray, SonarQube, Rapid7

• Monitoring & Logging- ELK Stack, DataDog, Splunk

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)- Terraform, Ansible

What we offer

• A dynamic, innovative team where your ideas directly shape our product strategy and customer success.

• Flexible working arrangements (hybrid, or in-office) designed to support work-life balance.

• Tools and technology provided (laptop, headset, monitors) to set you up for success.

• A supportive environment that values your growth, success, and contributions to our customers' achievements.

We welcome and encourage applications from all qualified individuals who can contribute to the continued diversification of our organization, including those from equity-deserving groups that have been historically underrepresented in the workforce.

In alignment with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005, Portfolio+ provides accommodation upon request throughout the recruitment, selection, and assessment process for applicants with disabilities. Please reach out tohumanresources@portfolioplus.comfor any questions or requests.

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