Univeris Corp Looking for Intermediate Software Developer – Professional Services at Toronto, ON Full Time

The Company
Univeris, headquartered in Toronto, Canada, is a privately held company and is the leader in enterprise wealth management for the Canadian market. Founded in 1991, Univeris has over 75 staff and 15 leading financial services clients representing over 17,000 financial advisors on the platform. It offers the most comprehensive wealth management solution for financial advisors in the credit union, banking, insurance and investment dealer sectors.
Univeris is a world-class technology platform that boasts a number of firsts in Canadian mutual fund distribution including real-time processing, web access, built-in compliance, plus ETF, GIC and segregated funds processing capabilities. Technology innovation is one of the cornerstones of Univeris’ product development strategy and through its Evergreen approach to technology, new features and capabilities transparently integrate into the platform.
At Univeris, when we are faced with new problems we work together to find solutions, we do what we say, and we are life long students.

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The Opportunity*
At Univeris, the Software Developer performs a variety of activities involving the analysis, design, development, operation, and maintenance of software, following the iterative software development process and software engineering best practices. The Software Developer is assigned duties based on the projects needs, and executes them while conforming to the Univeris internal processes and procedures.
Ultimately, collaboration, excellent verbal and written communication, maturity, a positive can-do attitude, and adherence to development processes and best practices are the keys to success in this role.

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The Role*

• Work in a fast-paced organization following Agile methodology
• Participates in cross-team software process improvement initiatives
• Work on multiple projects simultaneously
• Collaborate with team to understand, groom, refine and estimate support issues in the priority backlog
• Adhere to development best practices by writing well-designed, optimized, testable, and documented code
• Ability to be the lead contributor for change initiatives, including analysis, design, and solution options
• Review current software to identify defects and opportunities for improvement, including technical debt reduction
• Integrates software components into a fully functional software system
• Designs software, and participates in software design collaboration and review sessions
• Troubleshoots, debugs, and upgrades existing systems
• Ability to problem solve application and database performance issues effectively through the use of Profiling tools
• Create and maintain automated unit and integration tests
• Assist with testing software components and programs
• Understands and is able to setup automated functional, load/performance, and UI tests
• Expand user and technical documentation, knowledge base when necessary
• Identify and recommend new software development tools to improve team productivity and efficiency

Skills

• Firm grasp of object oriented programming core principals and concepts
• Strong understanding of design patterns and object oriented techniques
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to communicate with internal stakeholders and external clients
• Team player -ability to integrate and collaborate with team members
• Strong organization skills, interpersonal skills and excellent attention to detail
• Ability to multitask, adapt to changing priorities, be decisive under ambiguity, and meet expected deadlines
• Aptitude and interest to quickly learn new and emerging technologies, methods, and processes
• Proactivity in terms of identifying areas of weakness and striving for improvement
• Ability to deal with ambiguity

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science/related field or equivalent work experience
• 4+ years of experience in software development
• Experience designing and building J2EE, Spring, cloud-centric, API-centric applications
• Experience designing and developing server-side transaction processing applications using Java, Persistence Frameworks & systems, Presentation Frameworks and concepts (NodeJS, Vue.js, JSF, MVC)
• Working experience with SQL query language, and designing database schemas
• Experience with quality technologies: unit testing (JUnit, Mockito, etc), automation and Integration testing
• Strong problem-solving skills, ability to debug and solve complex issues
• Working experience in iterative software development life cycle model, preferable following an Agile methodology like SCRUM, SAFe, XP, etc.
• Eligible to work in Canada

Extras You Might Offer As Tiebreakers

• Background in the financial services industry and specifically wealth management industry
• Working experience with Git/Maven in a continuous build, continuous deployment environment
• Experience with cloud computing platforms such as AWS and GCP
• Working knowledge of the Atlassian stack – Confluence, JIRA, Bamboo, etc.

The Work Environment
Our location is downtown Toronto in a small office environment. At the time of this posting, employees at Univeris are working remotely from home.
At Univeris we embrace diversity and inclusion. We welcome applications from qualified individuals from all backgrounds.
Persons with disabilities who need accommodation in the application process may e-mail a request to careers@univeris.com.
We thank all applicants for showing an interest in this position. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

Job Type: Full-time