About Contour
Contour Software has grown from a dozen people to over 2,000 staff across 3 cities, in less than 14 years.
As a subsidiary of Constellation Software Inc., we are proud to be part of a global enterprise software conglomerate that has grown to become one of the top 10 software companies in the world, with employees and customers in 100+ countries. With a broad-based and ever-growing portfolio of market-leading, vertical-market enterprise solutions covering more than 100 industry domains in predominantly mature markets, CSI's recipe creates the perfect environment for professionals to build fulfilling, long-term careers.
What started as an R&D & Accounting back-office, has progressed into a full-service Global Centre serving all functions and departments, at the divisional as well as operating group/corporate level. Today Contour employees, located in Karachi, Lahore & Islamabad, are serving CSI divisions located in time zones spanning the globe, from Sydney to Vancouver. With the global growth of Constellation as the wind in our sails, we are only just getting started!
The Division:
At BiblioCommons, we build SaaS solutions for public libraries, directly impacting the lives of millions and fostering learning, literacy, and culture within the digital world. We constantly improve our products through user research, client interaction, and the input of our creative staff. Join a team of passionate professionals making public libraries accessible, delightful, and engaging.
Many companies tout 'social impact'; at BiblioCommons, we serve over 8 million diverse users monthly by partnering with close to 200 public libraries in Canada, the US and New Zealand. Libraries are more than just book stacks-they are public spaces that foster learning, connection, and community. BiblioCommons is bringing that community online with clever software that powers the world's largest libraries.
The Position:
We offers an opportunity to work in an environment that combines the challenges and complexity of a large-scale, data-intensive application with the creativity and fun of a sophisticated consumer web offering, central to the daily web interactions of millions of users.
We’re a highly collaborative team that applies innovative solutions to challenging problems. We strongly believe in automation and invest heavily in it to make that possible. We’re also committed to doing things right and always looking for ways to do them better.
We are looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer candidate who will bring strong technical expertise to our Platform team. This role will be key to strengthening our systems and infrastructure, remediating technical debt, upgrading legacy systems, remediating any security vulnerabilities and helping us achieve our compliance goals.
You will enjoy and be successful in this role if you are:
Great at debugging distributed systems.
Comfortable diving deep into legacy code and infrastructure to understand and resolve issues.
Accountable and take ownership of your work.
Skilled at documenting and sharing knowledge about complex systems.
Delivery-focused and giving your best effort at all times.
Creative and enjoys brainstorming ideas with others to come up with the right solution.
Supportive and enjoys working as part of a team.
Passionate to self-improve.
Methodical in root-cause analysis and systematic problem-solving.
You are always looking to automate, improve processes, and follow best practices.
Curious, adaptable, and comfortable experimenting with AI-driven approaches to design, build, and optimize applications.
How you’ll make an impact:
Plan and execute software upgrades for critical dependencies, frameworks, and libraries.
Tackle technical debt remediation initiatives across our platform and infrastructure.
Identify, prioritize, and remediate security vulnerabilities to support compliance goals.
Implement security controls and compliance automation.
Modernize legacy backend services and messaging applications to improve maintainability.
Troubleshoot and perform root-cause analysis of systemic issues.
Collaborate with engineering teams to establish upgrade schedules and deprecation timelines.
Write robust, high-quality code with appropriate tests.
Participate in code reviews and best-practice discussions.
What you will bring to the team:
7+ years of backend engineering experience with significant Java expertise.
Proven experience upgrading and maintaining Spring-based applications and related Java technologies.
Strong theoretical foundation in data structures, algorithms, and software engineering best practices.
Experience debugging and optimizing large-scale, multi-threaded systems.
Solid understanding of dependency management with Maven/Gradle and upgrade strategies.
Experience identifying and remediating security vulnerabilities in production systems.
Track record of successfully tackling technical debt while maintaining system stability.
Strong knowledge of RESTful API applications.
Some experience building backend messaging applications.
Have a mindset for end-to-end ownership of services.
Passionate, motivated, and capable of working autonomously.
Strong communication skills and collaboration across teams.
Bonus Points for:
Experience implementing security controls in on-prem and cloud environments
Direct experience implementing security controls and remediating findings for compliance purposes.
Experienced in a continuous integration and continuous delivery environment.
Experience building cloud-native API-based applications on AWS.
Experience managing technical debt in legacy monolithic applications.
Exciting Benefits we offer:
Market-leading Salary
Medical Coverage – Self & Dependents
Parents Medical Coverage
Provident Fund
Employee Performance-based bonuses
Home Internet Subsidy
Conveyance Allowance
Profit Sharing Plan [Tenured Employees Only]
Life Benefit
Child Care Facility
Company Provided Lunch/Dinner
Professional Development Budget
Recreational area for in-house games
Sporadic On-shore training opportunities
Friendly work environment
Leave Encashment
Disclaimer: At Contour, we attribute our success to the unique contributions of our diverse staff. We’re committed to fostering a culture of respect that thrives on the varied perspectives and experiences of all individuals we recruit, employ, promote, and compensate. Since day one, we’ve adhered to a policy that champions a work environment honoring the worth and dignity of each person while being free from all forms of employment discrimination.
In our continuous effort to promote inclusivity, we extend our commitment to individuals with special needs by providing reasonable accommodations. We actively encourage qualified individuals with special needs to apply for the various openings within our company. Should you require assistance in completing the application process or have any inquiries regarding special facilities, please do not hesitate to contact our HR team. Your unique talents and abilities are welcomed and valued here.
Skills Required
- 7+ years backend engineering experience with significant Java expertise
- Proven experience upgrading and maintaining Spring-based applications
- Strong foundation in data structures, algorithms, and software engineering best practices
- Experience debugging and optimizing large-scale, multi-threaded systems
- Solid understanding of dependency management with Maven and/or Gradle and upgrade strategies
- Experience identifying and remediating security vulnerabilities in production systems
- Track record of tackling technical debt while maintaining system stability
- Strong knowledge of RESTful API design and implementation
- Some experience building backend messaging applications
- End-to-end ownership mindset for services and ability to work autonomously
- Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across teams
- Experience implementing security controls in on-prem and cloud environments
- Experience remediating findings for compliance purposes
- Experience in continuous integration and continuous delivery environments
- Experience building cloud-native API-based applications on AWS
- Experience managing technical debt in legacy monolithic applications
What We Do
Contour Software is a wholly owned subsidiary of Constellation Software Inc. (CSI), specializing in IT services and consulting. The company provides augmented teams of professional IT staff to support 245 business units within CSI, helping them implement, support, extend, and enhance the mission-critical enterprise systems that power thousands of medium and large businesses and public institutions globally.
