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About the Role
The Senior Software Development Lead provides hands-on technical leadership for the design, development, modernization and production stability of enterprise wire payment services, focusing on cloud-native applications while supporting integration with on-prem applications and upstream/downstream systems. The successful candidate will combine strong AWS serverless engineering capability with application design, coding, troubleshooting and delivery leadership, guiding developers, reviewing designs and code, and driving resilient implementation patterns.
Responsibilities
- Provide hands-on technical leadership for the design, development and modernization of wire payment services.
- Translate business and regulatory requirements into scalable, secure and resilient cloud-native solutions.
- Design, develop and review AWS serverless applications using Node.js, Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS, EventBridge, S3, APIs and AWS CDK.
- Lead solution design, code reviews, technical documentation, effort estimation and implementation planning.
- Establish engineering standards for resiliency, error handling, retry, recovery, observability, security and performance.
- Partner with QA on unit, integration, white-box, regression, performance, chaos and production-readiness testing.
- Diagnose complex production issues, lead root-cause analysis and ensure permanent corrective actions are implemented.
- Drive technology-currency, vulnerability and runtime remediation across application components and environments.
- Provide technical guidance to internal and vendor developers, ensuring quality, accountability and knowledge transfer.
- Promote automation and approved AI-assisted engineering practices to improve delivery speed, testing effectiveness and code quality.
Requirements
- AWS and cloud-native engineering
- AWS Lambda
- DynamoDB
- SQS and DLQ
- SNS
- EventBridge
- S3
- API Gateway or enterprise API management
- CloudWatch or comparable logging and monitoring
- IAM and role-based security
- AWS CDK and Infrastructure as Code
- ECS/ECR knowledge for dashboard components
- Resiliency, high-availability and failure-recovery patterns
- Node.js and Java is a bonus
- REST APIs and backend service development
- Microservices and event-driven design
- Message-driven processing using Kafka, MQ or equivalent
- CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment
- Code review, troubleshooting and performance analysis
- Production incident diagnosis and root-cause analysis
- NFR, performance, chaos and fallback testing
- Observability, logging, tracing, alerting and telemetry
- Estimation, planning and dependency management
- Technical documentation and architecture review
- AWS Certified Developer Associate or AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate.
- Experience with wire payments, financial messaging or other high-value payment systems is a bonus
- Knowledge of ISO 20022, SWIFT, Fedwire, Lynx or payment-message processing is a bonus
- Experience applying AI-assisted development, test design, log analysis or code-quality tooling.
Skills
- AWS serverless engineering
- Application design
- Coding
- Troubleshooting
- Delivery leadership
- Node.js
- Lambda
- DynamoDB
- SQS
- SNS
- EventBridge
- S3
- APIs
- AWS CDK
- Resiliency
- Error handling
- Retry
- Recovery
- Observability
- Security
- Performance
- Java
- REST APIs
- Backend service development
- Microservices
- Event-driven design
- Message-driven processing
- Kafka
- MQ
- CI/CD pipelines
- Automated deployment
- Code review
- Performance analysis
- Production incident diagnosis
- Root-cause analysis
- NFR testing
- Performance testing
- Chaos testing
- Fallback testing
- Logging
- Tracing
- Alerting
- Telemetry
- Estimation
- Planning
- Dependency management
- Technical documentation
- Architecture review
- AI-assisted engineering
Location
- 33 Dundas Street West
Work Type
- Salaried
Experience Level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- $85,500.00 - $185,000.00
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Tuition reimbursement
- Accident and life insurance
- Retirement savings plans
About the Company
- At BMO we are driven by a shared Purpose: Boldly Grow the Good in business and life. It calls on us to create lasting, positive change for our customers, our communities and our people. By working together, innovating and pushing boundaries, we transform lives and businesses, and power economic growth around the world.
- As a member of the BMO team you are valued, respected and heard, and you have more ways to grow and make an impact. We strive to help you make an impact from day one – for yourself and our customers. We’ll support you with the tools and resources you need to reach new milestones, as you help our customers reach theirs. From in-depth training and coaching, to manager support and network-building opportunities, we’ll help you gain valuable experience, and broaden your skillset.
- To find out more visit us at https://jobs.bmo.com/ca/en.
Equal Opportunity
- BMO is committed to an inclusive, equitable and accessible workplace. By learning from each other’s differences, we gain strength through our people and our perspectives. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. To request accommodation, please contact your recruiter.