Back End Developer (Co-op)

OTT Financial Group is the parent organization of a group of financial services and investment companies. We leverage cutting-edge fintech innovations to bring excellent financial advice and best-in-class wealth management to our customers and business partners. Empowering 5,000+ merchants and hundreds of thousands of individual clients across Canada, we are the home to a wealth of expertise in forex and securities trading, mobile and cross-border payment, and investment fund management.

OTT Pay is part of the OTT Financial Group. We are the leading Canadian company enabling businesses to accept QR code-based digital payment methods such as WeChat Pay, Alipay, and China UnionPay. We also help businesses accept payments made with traditional methods such as Visa and Mastercard. In addition, we provide value-added services such as marketing and e-commerce through our platforms and other partners. We have completed Series C funding.

We are looking for a Back End Developer (Co-Op) with a strong background in web and mobile application development to join our growing team on a co-op term. In this role, you will be responsible for creating and implementing user-facing features, optimizing performance, and ensuring our applications are responsive and user-friendly. You will work closely with the other members of your scrum team to develop high-quality products that meet the needs of our clients. #LI-Onsite

How you will contribute:

• Work with members of your scrum team to ideate software solutions
• Conceive and write code while ensuring that security, logging, error handling, and performance standards are met
• Modify existing software to conform to system changes or to make improvements in the existing software.
• Identify opportunities to improve design, development, and testing processes.

What you bring to the table:

• Working toward a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field

• Hands-on Java development experience
• Experience with Spring Cloud, microservice API or Spring security frameworks is an asset
• Strong Knowledge of OOP, restful API development and JWT
• Proficient with relational and non-relational databases such as: MySQL, Redis and MongoDB
• Skilled with Messaging Queues: RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, Kafka or similar
• Work well within a team to complete end-to-end development (e.g. analysis, design, coding, testing deployment, etc.) for moderately complex software modules
• Eagerness to learn new technologies and interested in keeping up with industry trends
• Self-starter, well organized, thrives in a collaborative, quality-focused environment
• Excellent verbal communication skills

Nice to have:

• Experience with Spring Boot, Hibernate, JPA, MyBatis or similar is preferred.
• Experience with simulator tools such as Postman
• Experience with source code management tools like Git or Bitbucket

What's in it for you:

• Hourly pay: $17.20

• Opportunity to learn and grow with a supportive team

• Vacation Leave
• Centrally located modern and spacious offices close to Eglinton and Leslie
• Free use of onsite gym and sports facilities, and regular company social events
• A chance to work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive and high performing team
• Community involvement through the annual Terry Fox Run
• Tremendous opportunities for Growth and Development

Office Location and Working Hours: Leslie Street Office, Mon to Fri 9:00am to 5:30pm.

Visit our careers' page and apply now.

We value diversity — in backgrounds and in experiences, and we need people from all backgrounds and swaths of life to help build the future of payments. OTT Pay's Engineering Team is empathetic, caring, and supportive. We are deliberate and self-reflective about the kind of engineering team and culture that we are building, seeking engineers that are not only strong in their own aptitudes but care deeply about supporting each other's growth. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodation, if required, and will work with you to meet your needs.

We appreciate all applicants for their interest; however, only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.