Senior IT Developer at TD

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Work Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Hours: 37.5 Line of Business: Technology Solutions Pay Details: $102,200 - $125,000 CAD This role is eligible for a discretionary variable compensation award that considers business and individual performance. TD is committed to providing fair and equitable compensation opportunities to all colleagues. Growth opportunities and skill development are defining features of the colleague experience at TD. Our compensation policies and practices have been designed to allow colleagues to progress through the salary range over time as they progress in their role. The base pay actually offered may vary based upon the candidate's skills and experience, job-related knowledge, geographic location, and other specific business and organizational needs. As a candidate, you are encouraged to ask compensation related questions and have an open dialogue with your recruiter who can provide you more specific details for this role. Job Description: We are seeking a Senior Java Developer to design, build, and operate scalable, event-driven, cloud-native applications using Apache Kafka, Spring Boot, and Microsoft Azure. The ideal candidate combines strong hands-on engineering with architectural ownership of distributed systems, messaging patterns, and data-intensive services. Key Responsibilities Architecture & Design • Design event-driven architectures using Kafka with ownership of event contracts, versioning, and schema evolution • Define service interaction patterns (REST vs Kafka, sync vs async) • Lead architecture and design reviews focused on scalability, resiliency, and security • Own non-functional requirements including latency, throughput, scalability, and capacity planning Kafka & Messaging • Design topic, partition, replication, retention, and consumer group strategies • Implement producers and consumers with correct delivery semantics • Apply retries, dead-letter queues, replay, idempotency, and error-handling strategies • Manage schema compatibility using Avro/Protobuf/JSON and enforce backward/forward compatibility Application Development • Develop Spring Boot microservices using Java 11/17+ • Build REST APIs and asynchronous workflows • Implement resilience patterns such as retries, circuit breakers, and graceful degradation • Ensure safe evolution using API versioning and zero-downtime deployment Database & Data Access • Design and optimize Microsoft SQL Server persistence • Write and tune complex SQL queries Azure Cloud & DevOps • Deploy and operate services on Microsoft Azure (App Service/AKS) • Use Azure Key Vault, monitoring, and logging tools • Implement CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps • Support infrastructure as code using Terraform Testing & Operations • Establish unit, integration, and contract testing for distributed systems • Participate in on-call support and root-cause analysis Required Experience • 6+ years backend or distributed systems experience • 3+ years Java and Spring Boot • Strong Kafka production experience (2+ years) • Strong SQL Server experience (4+ years) • Working Python proficiency Certifications (Strong Preference) • Confluent Certified Developer/Administrator for Apache Kafka • Azure Solutions Architect Expert or Azure Developer Associate • Oracle Java OCP 11/17 or Spring Professional Who We Are: TD Securities offers a wide range of capital markets products and services to corporate, government, and institutional clients who choose us for our innovation, execution, and experience. With more than 6,500 professionals operating out of 40 cities across the globe, we strive to make every interaction, product and experience remarkably human and refreshingly simple. Our services include underwriting and distributing new issues, providing trusted advice and industry-leading insight, extending access to global markets, and delivering integrated transaction banking solutions. In 2023, we acquired Cowen Inc., offering our clients access to a premier U.S.