Lead Software Engineer
Momentum Financial Services Group11 days ago
Toronto, CanadaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead a small engineering team by assigning and prioritizing work, reviewing technical output, coaching developers, providing performance feedback, and supporting career growth.
- Own and evolve backend API services built with Node.js and NestJS on AWS ECS.
- Design and implement event-driven processing with Kafka and AWS MSK, including Redis caching.
- Support file ingestion pipelines using Amazon S3, AWS Lambda, schedulers, and Python or Node.js components.
- Maintain data synchronization workloads using AWS Batch, AWS Lambda, and scheduled jobs, with emphasis on correctness and recoverability.
- Participate in on-call and incident response, post-incident root-cause analyses, and preventive improvements.
- Improve CI/CD and engineering quality using GitHub Actions, Jest, k6, SonarQube, and Veracode.
- Manage infrastructure changes with Terraform, including networking, observability, and runtime configuration.
- Lead vendor knowledge transfer, develop runbooks and troubleshooting guides, and establish internal alerting, dashboard, escalation, and on-call practices.
- Reduce vendor dependencies and support the phased transition of L1/L2/L3 production support to the internal engineering team.
- Collaborate with business stakeholders and partner teams on requirements, SLAs, and release planning.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience.
- 10+ years of software engineering experience with strong backend development expertise.
- Strong Node.js experience and proficiency with relational databases, including PostgreSQL performance troubleshooting and data integrity.
- Production operations experience with AWS services including ECS, Lambda, S3, RDS/PostgreSQL, and CloudWatch.
- Experience with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, containerization, observability, and incident response.
- Experience with infrastructure as code, with Terraform strongly preferred.
- Experience leading an engineering team and mentoring developers.
- Strong communication skills and an ownership mindset.
- NestJS experience preferred.
- Kafka or AWS MSK event streaming and messaging experience preferred.
- Python experience for ingestion tooling or serverless components preferred.
- Experience with regulated or financial data flows, reconciliation, or integration platforms preferred.
- Experience improving reliability through idempotency, retries, dead-letter queues, and backpressure preferred.
Benefits
- Hybrid work environment combining remote and in-office work.
- Health and dental plans with 100% of premiums covered, plus an Employee Assistance Program.
- Retirement savings plans.
- Discretionary annual bonus based on individual performance and company success.
- Tuition assistance and professional development reimbursement.
- Perkopolis discounts and rewards and recognition programs.
Tech Stack