Associate Software Engineer

Team and Role

Role Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain cloud platforms, services, and components for safe enterprise-wide use of common cloud functionality.
• Build developer-facing tools for cloud platform technologies and create onboarding experiences and documentation.
• Develop internal portals and dashboards to simplify cloud resource management.
• Advocate for developer needs in cloud architecture and product decisions.
• Provide Level 3 support and design, implement, and refactor code.
• Participate in scalable design discussions, planning, retrospectives, stand-ups, and peer reviews.
• Ensure applications meet high availability, integrity, and reliability requirements.
• Work with engineers and architects to scope and estimate tasks.
• Build and operate highly available and scalable software and infrastructure.
• Guide application teams on platform use, design patterns, best practices, and security considerations.

Required Skills

• Strong programming skills in at least three object-oriented and/or scripting languages, such as JavaScript, Java, or Python.
• Experience with a modern technology stack such as React or Spring Boot.
• Experience with relational and non-relational databases.
• Experience with AI coding assistants.
• Understanding of the software development life cycle and web application security concerns.
• Understanding of cloud DevOps, including GitOps and CI/CD.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or a related discipline.
• Experience working within Canadian financial institutions.

Bonus Competencies

• Experience with Azure, GCP, cloud-native patterns, Kubernetes, internal developer platforms or portals, developer-facing UX, or agentic coding tools.

Employee Benefits and Culture

• Scotiabank promotes an inclusive, high-performing culture with diversity, equity, inclusion, allyship, and accessibility commitments.
• Employees may access online courses, cross-functional development opportunities, tuition assistance, rewards, vacation, personal and sick days, and benefits beginning on day one.
• The bank offers community engagement and belonging programs, including employee resource groups, hackathons, contests, and Humans of Digital.

Location

• The listed location is Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The description does not specify an onsite, hybrid, or remote workplace arrangement.