The Role
As a Full-stack Engineer, develop and support front-end and back-end applications, collaborating in Agile teams, coding, testing, and ensuring code quality.
Summary Generated by Built In
Join a Challenger
Being a traditional bank just isn’t our thing, so we challenge ourselves to get creative in providing innovative banking solutions for Canadians.
How do we get there? With a talented team of inquisitive and agile challengers that break through the status quo. So, if you’re passionate about redefining the future of banking—while having fun—this could be your next big opportunity.
Our company continues to grow, and today we serve more than 670,000 people across Canada through Equitable Bank, Canada's Challenger Bank™, and have been around for more than 50 years. Equitable Bank's wholly-owned subsidiary, Concentra Bank, supports credit unions across Canada that serve more than six million members. Together we have over $125 billion in combined assets under management and administration, with a clear mandate to drive change in Canadian banking to enrich people's lives. Our customers have named our EQ Bank digital platform (eqbank.ca) one of the top banks in Canada on the Forbes World's Best Banks list since 2021.
The purpose
EQ Bank is building a best-in-class agile product organization to put customers at the heart of everything we do as we build the future of banking in Canada. Cross-functional pods are empowered to own their own domains and metrics and focus deeply on how to serve and delight their users by leveraging research, insights, data, experimentation, customer feedback, best practices, and technical excellence - all with an emphasis on time-to-value. We care about solving customer problems, cross-functional collaboration, balancing real-time opportunities with longer term vision, and building the right thing(s), the right way(s). We are reimagining banking - come be a part of it!
Reporting to the Manager, Software Engineering, you will help drive forwards the evolution our experience platform into a modern, state-of-the-art micro-frontend architecture using foundational Azure Cloud, DevOps, API, and PaaS services to deliver dozens of production releases per month. You will work closely with a Senior Engineer, Tech Lead and cross-functional team through all areas of Agile Software Development to prioritize and deliver outcome driven solutions. This will include enabling MVP approaches and faster learning towards our customer goals and objectives.
As a Full-stack Engineer you will be responsible for developing and supporting our front-end and back-end applications. You will work closely with other engineers and product managers to assess and clarify user experience and requirements, develop clean, efficient and maintainable code, participate in bug fixes. You will also support writing unit and integration test cases, automate CI/CD pipelines and participate in code review to ensure code quality and robustness. Additionally, you will also support release and deployment of both front-end and back-end applications.
Main Activities
- Develop and maintain front-end and back-end applications
- Collaborate with Senior Engineers, Tech Leads, and cross-functional teams to design and implement robust and scalable solutions.
- Participate in code reviews, establish and enforce coding standards, and ensure code quality and performance.
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues related to front-end and back-end application development and performance.
- Work closely with product managers, Senior Engineers and Tech Lead to deliver high quality software solutions
- Collaborate with backend engineers to integrate the frontend applications with server-side components and third-party services.
- Participate in SCRUM meetings, share ideas, blockers if any and help in resolving issues
- Optimize our frontend solutions for performance, scalability, and usability, ensuring a smooth and responsive user experience.
- Contribute to the development of technical documentation and knowledge sharing within the engineering team.
Let’s Talk About You!
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science with a solid understanding of Object-oriented Programming
- Minimum of 5-7 years of experience working in cross-functional, agile teams to deliver and support web & API applications.
- Proficiency in JavaScript/Typescript/Angular, CSS, HTML, Java 7+ and Spring Boot.
- Experience with cross-platform frameworks such as Flutter or React Native is a plus.
- Programming Languages: Expertise in programming languages relevant to web and API development, Solid understanding of object-oriented programming and functional programming concepts, API Integration
- Experience integrating frontend applications with RESTful APIs and other web services.
- Version Control: Proficiency with version control systems, such as Github.
- Testing and Debugging: Strong skills in writing unit/integration tests and conducting automated testing, Hands on experience in debugging and performance optimization for front-end and back-end applications
- Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD): Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and tools to automate the development, testing, and deployment process.
- Security: Understanding of web security best practices, Knowledge of secure coding principles and encryption techniques.
- Database Knowledge: Familiarity with SQL database. Knowledge on any other DB is a plus
#LI-Hybrid
What we offer [For full-time permanent roles]
💰 Competitive discretionary bonus
✨ Market leading RRSP match program
🩺 Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability benefits
📝 Employee Share Purchase Plan
👶🏽 Maternity/Parental top-up while you care for your little one
🏝 Generous vacation policy and personal days
🖥 Virtual events to connect with your fellow colleagues
🎓 Annual professional development allowance and a comprehensive Career Development program
💛 A fulfilling opportunity to join one of the top FinTechs and help create a new kind of banking experience
The incumbent will be working hybrid and in office time will be spent working from Equitable Bank’s additional office space located at 2200-25 Ontario Street, Toronto, ON.
Equitable Bank is deeply committed to inclusion. Our organization is stronger and our employees thrive when we honour and celebrate everyone’s diverse experiences and perspectives. In tandem with that commitment, we support and encourage our staff to grow not just in their career path, but personally as well.
We commit to providing a barrier-free recruitment process and work environment for all applicants. Please let us know of any accommodations needed so that you can bring your best self to the application process and beyond. All candidates considered for hire must successfully pass a criminal background check and credit check to qualify for hire. While we appreciate your interest in applying, an Equitable recruiter will only contact leading candidates whose skills and qualifications closely match the requirements of the position.
We can’t wait to get to know you!
Top Skills
Angular
CSS
Flutter
Git
HTML
Java
JavaScript
React Native
Spring Boot
SQL
Typescript
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The Company
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
