Job Title: Product Engineer (Full Stack) / Senior Product Engineer
Location: Toronto, ON / Ottawa, ON, Canada (Hybrid)
Summary
- The Product Engineer (Full Stack) is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining robust, scalable full-stack features for the client's core enterprise Banking Platform.
- Working across modern front-end interfaces and distributed back-end architectures, this role delivers mission-critical banking software, participates in technical design discussions and code reviews, and leverages modern AI-assisted engineering tools to accelerate development workflows.
Core Competencies
- Full-Stack Development: Modern React / Front-End Frameworks | Core Java / J2EE Back-End | RESTful APIs | Microservices Architecture
- Data & Persistence Layer: Database Query Optimization | Relational Databases (Oracle, PostgreSQL, MS SQL) | NoSQL (Cosmos DB) | Data Modeling
- Event-Driven & Cloud Platforms: Event Streaming (Apache Kafka) | Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) | Microsoft Azure Cloud Ecosystem
- Engineering Rigor & Quality: Clean Code & SOLID Principles | Code Reviews | Automated Testing (JUnit) | CI/CD Integration (Maven, SonarQube)
- AI-Assisted Engineering: AI Developer Tooling | Generative AI Workflows | AIOS-Enabled Development Practices
Technical Skills & Tools
Front-End Development
React (Critical), TypeScript, JavaScript (ES6+), HTML5, CSS3, Modern UI Frameworks
Back-End Development
Java (Core/J2EE), Spring Boot, Hibernate, REST APIs, Microservices, EJB / Servlets, Go / Rust (awareness)
Databases & Data Stores
PostgreSQL, Oracle, MS SQL Server, DB2, Azure Cosmos DB, Complex SQL Query Optimization
Messaging & Cloud Stack
Apache Kafka / Event Streaming, Microsoft Azure, Kubernetes, Docker
Build, CI/CD & Testing
Git, Maven, Eclipse, SonarQube, JUnit, CI/CD Pipelines
AI & Productivity Tools
AI-Assisted Coding Tools (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, etc.), AIOS Platform Workflows
Key Responsibilities
- Full-Stack Feature Delivery
- Design, build, and maintain scalable, reliable, and secure full-stack software features across front-end (React) and back-end (Java/Spring) enterprise platform systems.
- Translate complex banking requirements, functional designs, and user stories into clean, well-tested, maintainable production code.
- Implement responsive web user interfaces in React and connect them with high-throughput RESTful backend APIs and microservices.
- Data Modeling & Event-Driven Systems
- Design and optimize database schemas, relational tables, and complex queries across PostgreSQL, Oracle, and MS SQL Server.
- Integrate event-driven and asynchronous messaging workflows utilizing Apache Kafka to support high-volume financial data streaming.
Architecture, Code Quality & AI Enablement
- Actively contribute to technical design discussions, architectural decisions, and comprehensive peer code reviews.
- Enforce engineering standards, proactively identify architectural bottlenecks, and mitigate delivery risks.
- Adopt and apply modern AI-assisted engineering practices (e.g., Copilot, AI agents) to optimize daily development cycles and support AIOS platform workflows.
Requirements & Qualifications
Experience & Education:
- 5+ years of professional full-stack software development experience building enterprise-grade applications.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline.
Core Technical Skills:
- Strong hands-on proficiency with modern front-end JavaScript frameworks, with React being critical.
- Extensive back-end development experience using Java (J2EE / Spring / Hibernate) and REST microservices.
- Strong database and query-building knowledge across multiple enterprise engines (PostgreSQL, Oracle, MS SQL Server, Cosmos DB).
- Solid understanding of event-streaming architectures (Apache Kafka) and containerized cloud environments (Azure, Kubernetes).
Nice-to-Have Skills:
- Domain knowledge in Banking, FinTech, or large-scale financial institutions.
- Hands-on familiarity with CI/CD tools, Maven, SonarQube, and JUnit.
- Demonstrated interest or hands-on experience using AI-assisted coding tools.
