Software Engineer

at  OMERS

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Join a global workplace where employees thrive. One that embraces diversity of thought, expertise and experience. A place where you can personalize your employee journey to be — and deliver — your best.
We are a purpose-driven, dynamic and sustainable pension plan. An industry leading global investor with teams in Toronto to London, New York, Singapore, Sydney and other major cities across North America and Europe. We embody the values of our 600,000+ members, placing their best interests at the heart of everything we do.
Join us to accelerate your growth & development, prioritize wellness, build connections, support the communities we live and work.
Don’t just work anywhere — come build tomorrow together with us.
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The Products & Technology team is an exciting new team passionate about using the newest technologies and approaches to deliver solutions & systems for the modern-day end user. Our primary focus and dedication are to provide real value, and we encourage innovation and empower open-thinking for all our team members. We’re excited for the opportunity to have highly driven and impactful talent join our team!

EXPERIENCE WITH A SUBSET OF THE FOLLOWING SKILLS:

Agile Software Development is must have
Building and documenting APIs is must have
Microservices/REST API is must have
Functional Programming is must have
Java 11+ is must have (production experience)
Spring Framework is must have (production experience)
Kafka is nice to have (production experience)
Containerization (Docker/Kubernetes) is must have
Test-Driven Development (TDD) is an asset
Domain-Driven Design (DDD) is an asset
Event-Driven Architecture is an asset
Cloud Environments (AWS, Azure, GCP) is must have
SQL and/or NoSQL databases (Oracle, Postgres, MongoDB) is must have
We believe that time together in the office is important for OMERS and Oxford, the strength of our employees, and the work we do for our pension members. In delivering on our pension promise, keeping us connected to our work and each other, our flexible hybrid work guideline requires teams to come in to the office 1 day per week.
As one of Canada’s largest defined benefit pension plans, our people-first culture is at its best when our workforce reflects the communities we live and work — and the members we proudly serve.
From hire to retire, we are an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive, barrier-free recruitment and selection process that extends all the way through your employee experience. This sense of belonging and connection is cultivated up, down and across our global organization thanks to our vast network of Employee Resource Groups with executive leader sponsorship, our Purpose@Work committee and employee recognition programs

AS A MEMBER OF THIS TEAM, YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR:

Consuming and understanding business, functional and technical requirements
Participating in solution evaluation, developing Proof of Concepts
Collaborating with other team members to interactively design and develop new applications and features
Developing and maintaining complete end-to-end solutions
Developing technical documents to accurately represent the design and code
Participating in design review sessions with project teams, acquiring consensus and approval on designs and documentation
Participating in the research and evaluation of new tools and technologies that can help drive innovative solutions for our clients
Serving as an expert in the support of the applications assigned
Capturing and refining specifications and requirements based on technical needs

TO SUCCEED IN THIS ROLE, YOU HAVE:

Have a background and experience in software development — a Computer Science degree (or comparable) and 3 to 8 years working experience in software development.
Possess a good understanding of computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, and strategies.
Have deep knowledge of multiple programming languages like Java, frameworks, and/or specialized systems and able to discern and articulate the relative merits of each.
Have some knowledge of and experience with how systems work at scale (e.g. threads, virtualization, configuration management, load balancers, caching)
Skilled in managing your time and the projects you are a part of and can leverage processes, ceremonies, and tools to do so