Software Engineer Lead
Location: Toronto, Calgary, Vancouver. Ideally Toronto - onsite twice in a Month
What version of Java?
- 21
In addition to Spring Boot, what other components of the Spring framework are required?
- Spring Data, Spring Cloud, Spring Security.
- Team is focus on building microservices. analysis). Looking for a deep understanding of microservices architecture patterns and API design & implementation best practices (e.g., authentication & authorization, API security, API documentation and contract generation).
What specific AWS services are we talking about? There are 300+ to choose from –
- AWS Glue, SSM, Secrets Manager, MSK, CodeDeploy, CloudWatch, VPC, API Gateway
- CockroachDB is being used instead of DynamoDB
- Looking for someone with a strong understanding of the AWS ecosystem but not all 300+ services
What testing frameworks/tools are in use today? E.g. JUnit; TestNG; Pact.IO; RestAssured; Swagger, etc.
- Junit , PostMan
- Swagger knowledge for OpenAPI for microserivces.
What streaming/event-driven tech is in use today? e.g. Kafka; Confluent; RabbitMQ; RedPanda, etc.
- Kafka
Any requirements re: Terraform and/or AWS CloudFormation?
- As a team lead some knowledge of Teraform is required
Any requirements re: Observability tools/tech? E.g. DataDog; AWS Cloudwatch; Prometheus; Grafana, etc.
- AWS Cloud Watch, OpenSearch
Any requirements re: Front End technologies - e.g. TS; JS; React / Vue / Angular
- No – This is a back end development role
What CI/CD tools are currently in use? (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, AWS CodePipeline, etc.)
- Strong CI/CD experience using Docker within pipelines on tools like Jenkins or Github Workflows.
Deployment model: containers (Docker, Podman), orchestration (EKS, ECS, OpenShift), or serverless?
- Experience Docker and container orchestration
Release cadence: daily, weekly, monthly?
- TBD
Is there a dedicated DevOps/SRE team, or do SWE leads own infra/deployment responsibilities?
- Devs do their own deployment and need to update Terraform scripts
Any big data or analytics pipelines? (Athena, Redshift, Spark on EMR, Glue ETL, etc.)
- No
Onsite? How many days per week?
- 2 times a month
How large is the team that the new hire will be leading?
- 6 developers include the team lead. Expectation are for the team lead is code 50% of the time
What does the team comprise of in terms of disciplines? E.g. SWEs; SDETs; Prod Manager, etc.
- SWEs and a Scrum master. Software Development Manager, Program Direct, Solution architect and Product Owner are not considered part of the team.
As a Lead, will the new hire be responsible for architectural design?
- The program has a dedicated solution architect, however the lead is expected to contribute to the architectural and design discussion
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- Posted
- Oct 07, 2025
- Type
- Contract
- Level
- Mid-Senior
- Location
- Toronto
- Company
- Compunnel Inc.
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