Senior Fullstack (React/Node) Developer to develop new functionalities on a student loan project with one of our major banking clients- 38198

Senior Fullstack (React/Node) Developer to develop new functionalities on a student loan project with one of our major banking clients- 38198

Location Address: Hybrid - Toronto - 3 days/week (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday - subject to change)

Subject to change: 3-4 days onsite may be required based on business needs

Contract Duration: 6 months (Possibility of extension & conversion to FTE)

Schedule Hours: 9am-5pm Monday-Friday; standard 37.5 hrs/week

Story Behind the Need

Business group: CBE Product Onboarding - onboarding process of the Bank’s financial products and services (credit cards, lending, deposits, insurance, accounts)

Project: Student loan project - extra functionalities to be added to the student loan product, product is ready to launch and pending to add the functionalities prior to launching

Contributes to the overall success of the Product Onboarding Engineering Team globally, ensuring specific individual goals, plans, and initiatives are executed/delivered in support of the team’s business strategies and objectives. Ensures all activities conducted are in compliance with governing regulations, internal policies and procedures.

Typical Day in Role:

• Tech Stack - React, Javascript

• Full stack - front-end react; back end using Express.js and Next.js - frameworks based on Node.js

• Database: MongoGB, infra: GCP

• Work within a team of approximately 5 to 7 cross-functional individuals

• Provide system analysis, object-oriented design / programming, technical documentation, and support for existing and new applications and systems

• Provide recommendations on best practices and enhancements that are in line with the bank’s technology roadmap

• Work with the project team to refine technical requirements and provide technical design and guidance based on industry best practices

• Perform coding, unit testing, debugging, documenting, and implementing applications and scripts

• Participate in the estimation and planning of development efforts required for various projects and enhancements

• Maintain, support, and enhance existing applications and participate in regular code reviews for release activities

• Lead the implementation efforts for implementations of code to non-production and production environments

• Participate in production issue analysis and perform root cause analysis for production issues and implementation issues

• Assist the product owners and business analysts in discovering the current system behavior and provide recommendations on improving the current system

Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:

1) 8+ years’ experience as a full-stack Developer

2) 4+ years of software development experience building web applications using: ReactJS, TypeScript, NodeJS, Express.JS, and MongoDB

3) 2+ years’ experience with unit test library: Jest

Nice-To-Have Skills:

1) Experience with Google Cloud cloud-based development stacks

2) Experience with modern JS toolsets (ES6+, Webpack, Babel, SonarQube, CheckMarx, Web Inspect) and deep knowledge of HTML/CSS/SASS

3) Knowledge of Splunk, Dynatrace, and Apigee is an asset

4) Experience with containerization and orchestration (such as Docker, Kubernetes) and DevOps tools (such as Bitbucket/Git, Ansible)

5) Experience working in the insurance and financial industry

Education:

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or related area

Best VS. Average Candidate:

Need a strong React developer with experience from FI

Candidate Review & Selection

Max 2 rounds - 1 hour

1st - MS Teams video technical panel interview, with HM and technical leads/senior devs - coding exercise, will send a link that they will open and show work live on screen to see how they solution

Potential 2nd in office - deciding between candidates/fit interview