Senior Systems Developer (Risk Technology)

at  Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan HOOPP

Why you’ll love working here:

• high-performance, people-focused culture
• our commitment that equity, diversity, and inclusion are fundamental to our work environment and business success, which helps employees feel valued and empowered to be their authentic selves
• learning and development initiatives, including workshops, Speaker Series events and access to LinkedIn Learning, that support employees’ career growth
• membership in HOOPP’s world class defined benefit pension plan, which can serve as an important part of your retirement security
• competitive, 100% company-paid extended health and dental benefits for permanent employees, including coverage supporting our team’s diversity and mental health (e.g., gender affirmation, fertility and drug treatment, psychological support benefits of $2,500 per year, and newly extended maternity/parental leave top of 26 weeks)
• optional post-retirement health and dental benefits subsidized at 50%
• yoga classes, meditation workshops, nutritional consultations, and wellness seminars
• access to an annual wellness reimbursement program for health and wellness-related expenses for permanent and temporary employees
• the opportunity to make a difference and help take care of those who care for us, by providing a financially secure retirement for Ontario healthcare workers

Job Summary:
The Investment Risk Solutions team manages a suite of systems for our portfolio that includes pricing engines, financial analytics, a market risk VaR and stress test system and a credit risk system. As this tech stack evolves, the scope will expand to include other risk types (e.g., climate risk/ESG, counterparty credit, liquidity), implying an expansion of architecture, source data, analytics, reporting, etc.
Our applications are built on a collection of Spring Boot, .net, python microservices running on AWS EKS. HOOPP investment tech run fully on AWS infrastructure over Infrastructure as Code patterns.

What you will do:

• Actively participate in Agile Scrum practices such as daily standups, backlog refinement, planning and sprint retrospectives.
• Contribute during design and planning meetings, issue retrospectives, code reviews, and team retrospectives; write wiki articles.
• Create a safe, supportive, and participatory environment that produces ongoing mutual respect
• Set up your development environment, then review our code, databases, and configuration.
• Learn our technical stack and our systems by applying changes to each of them. These systems include pricing engines, and our Risk calculation systems, then use automated build and deployment pipelines.
• Tag team with one of our many brilliant analysts to review the spec, and design the solution
• Build, launch, and support your first big feature. While doing that, you will plan the work, resolve the dependencies on other teams, educate the developers who will use the feature, and migrate any affected production services.
• Resolve complex production issues spanning multiple systems and technologies.
• Support other development teams by helping their developers, learning about their needs, and educating them about the platform best practices.
• Quickly learn, evaluate, and apply new concepts and technologies.
• When you are ready, participate in the off-hours on-call rotation. Our off-hours support volume is very light, and we put in the effort to keep it that way.

What you bring:

• 5+ years’ experience of back-end or full stack development.
• 5+ years’ experience in a capital market, investment management and/or financial risk management function
• Familiarity with investment management artifacts and concepts (e.g., market data, security master, pricing, and risk models)
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, math, or engineering degree
• Excellent knowledge of software development design patterns and distributed systems.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills with an ability to take end-to-end ownership.
• Technical experience in these 3 areas:
• OOP: Spring Boot Java or .net & .net core
• Analytics experience: python over anaconda
• T-SQL with dba fundamentals
• Proficiency with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Skilled in modern development tools and practices, such as git, CI/CD, unit testing.
• Experience with DevOps Infrastructure as code would be considered an asset.
• Experience in financial risk systems a definite plus

• Actively participate in Agile Scrum practices such as daily standups, backlog refinement, planning and sprint retrospectives.
• Contribute during design and planning meetings, issue retrospectives, code reviews, and team retrospectives; write wiki articles.
• Create a safe, supportive, and participatory environment that produces ongoing mutual respect
• Set up your development environment, then review our code, databases, and configuration.
• Learn our technical stack and our systems by applying changes to each of them. These systems include pricing engines, and our Risk calculation systems, then use automated build and deployment pipelines.
• Tag team with one of our many brilliant analysts to review the spec, and design the solution
• Build, launch, and support your first big feature. While doing that, you will plan the work, resolve the dependencies on other teams, educate the developers who will use the feature, and migrate any affected production services.
• Resolve complex production issues spanning multiple systems and technologies.
• Support other development teams by helping their developers, learning about their needs, and educating them about the platform best practices.
• Quickly learn, evaluate, and apply new concepts and technologies.
• When you are ready, participate in the off-hours on-call rotation. Our off-hours support volume is very light, and we put in the effort to keep it that way