Sr. Systems Developer [P3]

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, parental leave top-up, and a health spending account).

• optional post-retirement health and dental benefits subsidized at 50%

• yoga classes, meditation workshops, nutritional consultations, and wellness seminars

• 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 Solutions Group (ISG) delivers advanced technological solutions to HOOPP traders, portfolio managers, and cross functional teams including Risk Management and Finance.

As a Senior Systems Developer in the ISG Risk division, you will work on projects that span the entire trade, portfolio and financial risk management lifecycle including, for example, sourcing and mapping of market data and position data, financial engineering and modelling of securities, design and implementation of risk models, tech architecture, and analytical processes.

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.

• 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.)

Who you are:

• 5+ years experience of back-end or full stack development.

• 5+ years experience in a capital markets, 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)

• Demonstrated ability to apply software design patterns and build scalable distributed systems.

• Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to take ownership of solutions from concept to delivery.

• Ability to quickly learn, evaluate, and apply new technologies with a strategic, big-picture mindset.

• Technical experience in these 3 areas:

  • OOP: Spring Boot Java or .NET & .NET core

  • Analytics experience: python

  • 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 is an asset.