Software Engineer

Engineering · Ottawa, Canada

Job description

Who we are

Founded in 2002, Zafin offers a SaaS product and pricing platform that simplifies core modernization for top banks worldwide. Our platform enables business users to work collaboratively to design and manage pricing, products, and packages, while technologists streamline core banking systems. 

With Zafin, banks accelerate time to market for new products and offers while lowering the cost of change and achieving tangible business and risk outcomes. The Zafin platform increases business agility while enabling personalized pricing and dynamic responses to evolving customer and market needs. 

Zafin is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, with offices and customers around the globe including ING, CIBC, HSBC, Wells Fargo, PNC, and ANZ. Zafin is proud to be recognized as a top employer and certified Great Place to Work® in Canada, India and the UK.  

What will you do?

  • Work closely with product and delivery teams to develop solutions using determined stack on Zafin's SaaS platform
  • Strong ability to articulate key functional and technical capabilities of SaaS solution 
  • Work with team members and leads to perform fit-gap analysis exercise to assess business requirements and align them with out of the box capabilities and work closely with cross-functional teams to determine action plan to address gaps
  • Execute on user stories and backlog items, and prepare specifications utilizing agile methodology
  • Prepare key implementation deliverables technical documentation/ specification while supporting code reviews / pull requests and containerized deployment
  • Organize and execute unit and integration tests within and across functional areas

Mode of Work: Hybrid

Minimum Requirements

  • 2-5 years of professional experience writing high quality production level code or software programs
  • Has experience operating or enabling large-scale, high-availability data pipelines from design, to execution and safe change management. Expertise in Apache Flink, Apache Nifi, Kafka/Redpanda, Java, SQL, and API design is a plus.
  • Has experience developing, maintaining, and debugging distributed systems built with open source tools
  • Good foundational knowledge on Containerization – Docker, Kubernetes, or similar technologies and Cloud (Azure is preferred)
  • Has strong collaboration and communication skills, and can comfortably interact with both technical and non-technical participants.
  • Has the curiosity to continuously learn about new technologies and business processes.
  • Is energized by delivering effective, user-first solutions through creative problem-solving and collaboration.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Has experience writing production-level code with Expertise in Flink, Nifi, Airflow, Java, Spring Boot and SQL is a plus.
  • Experience packaging and deploying code into cloud-based environments (Azure) with tools including Kustomize/Helm, Docker Containers, etc
  • Has experience designing APIs or building developer platforms
  • Has experience optimizing the end to end performance of distributed systems
  • Has experience with scaling distributed systems in a rapidly moving environment
  • BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent field and interest in data
  • Has experience working with data pipelines

What’s in it for you

Joining our team means being part of a culture that values diversity, teamwork, and high-quality work. We offer competitive salaries, annual bonus potential, generous paid time off, paid volunteering days, wellness benefits, and robust opportunities for professional growth and career advancement. Want to learn more about what you can look forward to during your career with us? Visit our careers site and our openings: zafin.com/careers

Zafin welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. 

Zafin is committed to protecting the privacy and security of the personal information collected from all applicants throughout the recruitment process. The methods by which Zafin contains uses, stores, handles, retains, or discloses applicant information can be accessed by reviewing Zafin’s privacy policy at https://zafin.com/privacy-notice/. By submitting a job application, you confirm that you agree to the processing of your personal data by Zafin described in the candidate privacy notice.

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