Join a Challenger
At EQB, we're remaking banking so every Canadian gets ahead, every day. Serving nearly 4 million Canadians from coast to coast, we offer a wide variety of financial services from banking and lending, to trust and credit union solutions.
We've been at this since 1970, challenging the conventions of traditional banking with smarter, faster, and more connected financial experiences.
What's kept us moving? The people behind it all: challengers who ask better questions, push back on old assumptions, and look for a better way forward.
If you're driven to help reshape how banking works for Canadians and the businesses that power our economy, this could be your next big opportunity.
We can’t wait to get to know you!
What You'll Do!
- Deliver robust, scalable AI platform components and end-to-end solutions both independently and collaboratively.
- Collaborate closely with software developers, data engineers, DevOps, and data scientists to develop and support AI platform features.
- Participate in design and architecture discussions for AI platform services, ensuring flexibility, scalability, and reliability.
- Develop and enhance APIs, platform features, and tools to support AI and data workflows.
- Review and optimize code for performance, maintainability, and compliance with platform standards.
- Mentor junior developers on best practices for platform development and effective use of platform tools.
- Ensure platform security, monitoring, and compliance with best practices.
- Provide production support and troubleshooting for AI platform components.
What You Bring!
- Minimum 7 years of software engineering experience.
- 5+ years’ experience with Java & Spring Boot Framework.
- Experience building APIs and services (REST) to support data and AI workflows.
- Experience working with XML and JSON data formats.
- Strong background in large-scale, distributed system development.
- Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestrators (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
- Experience working in integrated team environments using source control systems (e.g., Git, IntelliJ).
- Evidence of design skills and understanding of design patterns, with the ability to apply them to platform architecture.
- Experience with Test Driven Development (TDD) and unit testing frameworks.
Good to Have Skills!
- Experience with microservices architecture.
- Experience developing cloud-native apps.
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code concepts (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation).
- Experience with "The Twelve-Factor App" methodology.
- Hands-on experience with MLOps tools and monitoring solutions (e.g. MLflow, Prometheus, Grafana).
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) for deploying and operating AI/platform services.
- Experience with workflow orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow, Kubeflow Pipelines).
- JIRA / Confluence.
Equity, Diversity & Inclusion
EQ is committed to building an inclusive, accessible environment where every employee feels valued, respected, and supported. We believe our organization is stronger — and our people thrive — when we honour and celebrate diverse experiences, identities, and perspectives. We’re equally committed to supporting your growth, both professionally and personally.
We provide a barrier‑free recruitment process and work environment. If you require accommodations at any stage, we will work with you to ensure you can bring your best self to the process and beyond.
As part of our recruitment process, EQ uses AI to help screen, assess, and/or select applicants for this position. All AI-enabled outputs are reviewed and validated by our talent team. All candidates considered for hire must successfully complete a criminal background check and credit check. While we appreciate every application, an EQ recruiter will contact only those whose skills and experience most closely match the requirements of the role.
EQB Inc. (TSX: EQB) is the parent company of Equitable Bank, the country's seventh-largest Schedule I bank by assets, which operates EQ Bank, Canada's Challenger Bank™. EQB Inc. serves nearly 4 million Canadians and manages approximately $150 billion in combined assets under management and administration.
To learn more, visit eqb.investorroom.com and eqbank.ca.
Skills Required
- Minimum 7 years of software engineering experience
- 5+ years experience with Java and Spring Boot
- Experience building APIs and services (REST) to support data and AI workflows
- Experience working with XML and JSON data formats
- Background in large-scale, distributed system development
- Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestrators (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Experience with source control and integrated team environments (Git, IntelliJ)
- Design skills and understanding of design patterns for platform architecture
- Experience with Test Driven Development and unit testing frameworks
- Experience with microservices architecture
- Experience developing cloud-native applications
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
- Familiarity with The Twelve-Factor App methodology
- Hands-on experience with MLOps tools and monitoring (MLflow, Prometheus, Grafana)
- Familiarity with cloud platforms for deploying AI services (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Experience with workflow orchestration tools (Airflow, Kubeflow Pipelines)
- Experience using JIRA and Confluence
What We Do
MakeBank on everyday banking: Earn high interest on every dollar Say no to fees No minimum balances Powered by Equitable Bank, a Schedule I Canadian Bank EQB Inc. (formerly Equitable Group Inc.) trades on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: EQB and EQB.PR.C), directly serves over 607,000 Canadians through its wholly owned subsidiary Equitable Bank, Canada's Challenger Bank™, and serves over 200 Canadian credit unions that serve over 6 million of their members with products and services. Equitable Bank has grown to become Canada's 7th largest independent Schedule I bank with over a $119 billion in assets under management and assets under administration, and a clear mandate to drive real change in Canadian banking to enrich people's lives. At Equitable Bank, we are as invested in our employees as we are in our business. That’s why we are consistently recognized as one of Canada's Top Employers – a rating that comes from our 1,800 employees. Equitable Bank’s inclusive, welcoming, and pride-inducing workplace earned it the honour of being recognized as one of the top 50 organizations on the 2023 list of Canada’s Best Workplaces™. Founded over 50 years ago, Equitable Bank provides diversified personal and commercial banking, and through its EQ Bank platform (eqbank.ca), which has been named #1 Bank in Canada for three consecutive years on the Forbes World's Best Banks list for 2021, 2022, and 2023. Equitable Bank website: www.equitablebank.ca EQ Bank website: www.eqbank.ca Specialties Lending, Mortgages, Residential Lending, Commercial Lending, Reverse mortgages, Insurance lending, Equipment leasing , Credit Union, Trust, and Funds Management
