Hiring Manager: Senior Manager Development
Location Address: WFH – GTA Once back in office, open to fully remote candidates
Contract Duration: 3 months
Duration is tied to project so no visibility on extension, but if resource is strong, will consider for other projects as they come up
Number of Positions: 1
Schedule Hours: Monday-Friday, 9am – 5pm
Reason for request: Additional Workload/new project
Story Behind the Need
Business group: Enterprise Digital Banking Technology – Team for Caribbean that works on digital side for online and mobile banking, and provide digital flows to the customer to conduct online banking – platform maintained by this team for Caribbean countries
Project: Enterprise Digital Banking Technology is seeking an Android developer for the CCAU Digital Banking Engineering team is seeking a Senior Android developer to join Wave Mobile team (Caribbean), and help develop and implement changes for future releases for Wave Android App (Caribbean). This developer will be working with a SME (Toronto), and team of offshore developers (Dominican Republic, India) to develop and implement these changes.
Candidate Value Proposition
The successful candidate will not only have the opportunity to gain valuable experience at a top 5 Canadian bank, but also get exposure to the banks emerging technology, working with not only individuals in Toronto, but across South America as well to develop and implement the latest Wave application updates.
Typical Day in Role
– Design, develop, and implement applications using emerging technologies (e.g. DevOps, cloud, mobile, content management, RPA) to support business requirements.
– Analyze highly complex business requirements; generate technical specifications to design or redesign complex software components and applications
– Act as an expert technical resource for modeling, simulation and analysis efforts
– Leverage industry best practices to design, test, implement and support a solution
– Assure quality security and compliance requirements are met for supported area
– Be flexible and thrive in an evolving environment
– Adapt to change quickly and adjust work accordingly in a positive manner
– Majority of time focused on the Wave app project but there could be some occasional ad hoc work
Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:
1) 7+ years of experience in Android development
2) 7+ years of experience in Java, Kotlin development
3) 5+ years of experience with RxJava + OkHttp + Retrofit – demonstrated in recent project work
4) 5+ years of experience with MVP and MVVM architectures
5) 5+ years of experience in accessibility and testing
Nice-To-Have Skills:
1) 5+ years of experience with GitFlow, Bitbucket
2) Google PlayStore app launch experience
3) Prior FI / Banking experience preferred
4) Prior work experience with a bank, preferably working in other teams within Digital*
Soft Skills:
– Hit the ground running
– Strong communication skills (written & verbal), Interacting with Product, Design, Front-end and Back-end Teams
– Self-starter that actively engages issues seeking resolution, ability to meet dynamic changes on prioritization
Degrees or certifications:
– Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering or related field required
Best vs Average Candidate
As is a short project, need someone senior who can hit the ground running with minimal training
HM Availability to interview: ASAP – off last week of June but will have someone to cover as needed