Verafin - Senior Software Developer – Data Platform

Verafin - Senior Software Developer – Data Platform

Apply locations Canada - St. John's - Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada - Toronto - Ontario

Time type: Full time

Posted on: 12 Days Ago

Job requisition id: R0021233

Are you ready to be part of a dynamic and innovative company that's revolutionizing Financial Crime Management? At Nasdaq Verafin, we're not just industry leaders; we're trailblazers in providing cutting-edge, cloud-based solutions for financial institutions. We’re creating the world’s most effective financial crime fighting network!

As a Senior Software Developer on the Data Platform team, you will play a key role in designing, developing, and maintaining our big data infrastructure. You will get the opportunity to work closely with a variety of internal teams to implement scalable and efficient data processing solutions, while ensuring the availability and reliability of our data pipelines. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the progress of our data architecture and analytics capabilities.

You will use your curious mind, refined problem-solving ability, and code writing expertise to bring fresh new ideas to life. Your contribution will help Nasdaq Verafin fight crimes such as human trafficking, elder abuse, and drug trafficking and you’ll join a large team who is equally passionate about making a difference. Being a Senior Software Developer at Nasdaq Verafin means getting the opportunity to have a positive impact on the world while doing what you love – solving complicated problems using the power of code.

What You'll Do:

• Helping develop new features, bug fixes and optimizations
• Designing solutions to solve technical problems
• Writing applications to read, extract, transform and load data utilizing big data technologies
• Ensuring data accuracy, consistency, and completeness throughout the data pipeline
• Processing unstructured data into a form suitable for analysis
• Monitoring data performance
• Working in collaboration with your team, while delivering project requirements
• Participating in code reviews

What We're Looking For:

• A university degree or college diploma in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent experience
• 2+ years of Software Development experience
• Experience building pipelines to process large volumes of structured and unstructured data, including integrating data from multiple sources
• Strong analytical skills and creativity to solve complex problems
• Programming experience in Python, Scala or Java
• Experience with automated testing
• Top-notch interpersonal and organizational skills making teamwork a positive experience

Would be good to have experience in a few of the following areas:

• Core Banking Systems
• Intelligent systems, artificial intelligence, and data science
• Distributed computing
• Database technologies (Relational and non-relational)
• Data extraction, transformation/cleansing, and integration
• Experience building production level systems in AWS cloud environment
• Experience working with big data technologies such as EMR and/or Apache Spark

What Success Looks Like:

• Understanding the goals of the team while using problem-solving skills to achieve them
• Willing to learn new programming languages to meet goals and objectives
• Producing clean and efficient code
• Asking for help, learning from, and mentoring others
• Iterating consistently on coding practices for continuous improvement

Growth Opportunities:

• Develop along the technical leadership path including Specialist, Lead Developer and Architect

Why Nasdaq Verafin?

• Innovative Solutions: Be part of a team that's at the forefront of financial crime management technology, in a rapidly evolving industry.
• Impactful Work: Help financial institutions protect themselves and their customers from fraud and other financial crimes.
• Dynamic Growth: Join a company that's expanding quickly, offering you endless opportunities to grow and advance.

This position can be located in St. John’s or Toronto, and offers the opportunity for a hybrid work environment (2 days a week in office), providing flexibility and accessibility for qualified candidates.

Come as You Are

Nasdaq is an equal opportunity employer. We positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of age, color, disability, national origin, ancestry, race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable law.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request an accommodation.