Software Engineer - JAVA

Greater Toronto Area, Canada

emergiTEL is hiring a Software Engineer for our client in the Digital Identity, Cybersecurity, and Telecommunications industry. This is a Permanent role.
Compensation: $100,000 - $110,000/year
Location: Toronto
Job Description (English)
About the Role

The Software Engineer plays a key role in building the next generation of fraud-prevention and identity verification services that protect Canadian consumers and financial institutions.
Working across distributed, carrier-integrated systems, this role contributes throughout the full software development lifecycle, from design and coding to deployment and monitoring.
The Engineer designs and implements scalable APIs and data pipelines, embeds security and reliability into every layer of the stack, and collaborates closely with QA, Operations, and DataOps teams.
By combining strong coding discipline with modern practices in observability, automation, and data-driven engineering, the Engineer helps deliver resilient, high-performance services that power critical financial and telecom ecosystems.

What You'll Do

Contribute across the entire software development lifecycle: design, development, testing, deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement.
Design and implement efficient, scalable, and highly available technical solutions that power the client's fraud-prevention and identity verification APIs.
Write clean, reusable, and well-documented source code, leveraging object-oriented programming and modern design patterns.
Build and maintain unit tests, integration tests, and technical documentation to support maintainability and reliability.
Participate in peer code reviews and knowledge-sharing to raise the overall quality of the engineering team’s output.
Support product deployment and troubleshoot production issues in close collaboration with Operations, Release, and QA teams, ensuring service reliability and uptime for high-value financial and telecom customers.
Collaborate with DataOps and Data Science teams to design, deploy, and maintain frameworks that operationalize data-driven models, including fraud scoring, anomaly detection, and behavioral analytics, into production services.
Develop and support ETL/ELT pipelines, ensuring data quality, security, and compliance across multiple sources, including carrier feeds, real-time notifications, and fraud events.
Implement observability best practices including metrics, logs, and tracing to monitor system performance and proactively detect issues.
Stay current with coding standards, modern software practices, and emerging technologies relevant to distributed systems, security, and data-driven applications.
Actively participate in agile ceremonies as part of a Scrum team, helping drive feature delivery and platform modernization.

What You Bring
Must-Have Skills & Experience

Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
4+ years of software development experience with an object-oriented language such as JAVA or Python
Strong understanding of object-oriented programming principles, design patterns, and core algorithms.
Hands-on experience developing and maintaining RESTful APIs.
Strong coding discipline with experience writing automated tests, including unit and integration tests, as part of daily development.
Solid knowledge of relational database systems such as MySQL and PostgreSQL, including schema design.
Proficiency with version control systems, with Git preferred.
Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, with a detail-oriented and security-conscious mindset.
Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to peers and stakeholders.

What Sets You Apart - Nice to have

Professional experience with Python and/or Java in distributed, production-grade systems.
Experience with asynchronous frameworks such as asyncio or Spring Reactor and concurrent/parallel programming.
Familiarity with network protocols, messaging, and telecom or financial-grade systems.
Background in designing and scaling high-throughput, highly available, and distributed services.
Hands-on experience with message queues including Kafka, RabbitMQ, or SQS; caching technologies such as Redis or Memcached; and NoSQL databases including MongoDB or Cassandra.
Knowledge of ETL/ELT design, orchestration frameworks such as Airflow, Luigi, or Step Functions, and data pipeline optimization.
Practical experience with AWS services including Lambda, ECS/EKS, RDS, S3, API Gateway, and CloudWatch.
Exposure to security, compliance, or telecom standards such as SOC2, GSMA TS.43, or ISO 27001 is considered an asset.

Why Join Us?

Be part of a team delivering identity verification and fraud-detection APIs that safeguard Canadians, financial institutions, and carriers.
Directly contribute to the quality and reliability of trusted services used across critical industries.
Help modernize and scale systems used by leading banks, fintechs, and telecom partners across Canada.
Work in a collaborative environment where engineering excellence, innovation, and customer trust are core to the mission.

Vacancy Status / Statut du poste
This is an active position currently open for hiring. / Ce poste est activement ouvert au recrutement.
Use of Artificial Intelligence / Utilisation de l'intelligence artificielle
emergiTEL uses artificial intelligence to help identify and source candidates for this role. All assessment and selection decisions are made by our recruiters, a human is always involved, and no applicant is evaluated or rejected by automated means alone. / emergiTEL a recours à l'intelligence artificielle pour aider à identifier et à trouver des candidats pour ce poste. Toutes les décisions relatives à l'évaluation et à la sélection sont prises par nos recruteurs ; une intervention humaine est systématiquement assurée, et aucun candidat n'est évalué ou rejeté uniquement par des moyens automatisés.