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Senior Java Software Engineer

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Toronto, OH Contractor
POSTED ON 4/12/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/11/2026
Location: Downtown Toronto, ON

Work Model: Hybrid (2-3 days onsite per week)

Interview Process: One-round virtual interview

Experience Level: Intermediate-Senior

Duration: Contract to Hire

About The Role

Our client is building the next generation of live social commerce, a real-time shopping platform that enables direct interaction between buyers and sellers through live streaming experiences. Focused on unique items, collectibles, and fashion, the platform blends entertainment with seamless commerce at scale.

As an Backend Software Engineer, you will design and build scalable, high-performance backend systems that support real-time interactions, transactions, and 24/7 availability. You'll take ownership of complex systems, influence architecture decisions, and mentor others while collaborating across cross-functional teams.

What You'll Do

  • Translate business and technical requirements into scalable backend designs
  • Write clean, efficient, extensible, and maintainable code
  • Own a large functional area with deep technical expertise
  • Influence technical decisions across domain and partner teams
  • Improve engineering productivity through best practices and tooling
  • Design backend systems with flexibility to support evolving requirements
  • Collaborate with product, frontend, and infrastructure teams to deliver high-quality solutions
  • Apply evidence-centered design to ensure testability, quality, and continuous delivery
  • Manage features end-to-end, breaking work into tasks and resolving execution challenges
  • Provide code reviews, architectural guidance, mentoring, and coaching
  • Contribute to and review Architecture Decision Records (ADRs)
  • Identify cross-system gaps, propose solutions, and help shape the engineering roadmap
  • Participate in release management, production support, and on-call rotations for an always-on platform

Required Skills

  • Strong experience with Java
  • Spring Boot and backend system architecture
  • Microservices and distributed system design
  • REST APIs and GraphQL
  • Experience building scalable, high-availability backend services

Top Skills:

Java, Spring Boot, Backend Architecture, Microservices, REST APIs, GraphQL

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
  • Excellent decision-making skills with the ability to navigate ambiguity and change
  • Strong sense of ownership and accountability
  • Outstanding communication and collaboration skills
  • Passion for mentoring and growing other engineers
  • Self-driven with a strong learning mindset
  • Excited about modern backend technologies and distributed systems
  • Actively participates in knowledge-sharing and continuous learning

Job Type & Location

This is a Contract to Hire position based out of Toronto, ON.

Pay And Benefits

The pay range for this position is $60.00 - $100.00/hr.

Workplace Type

This is a hybrid position in Toronto,ON.

propos de TEKsystems et TEKsystems Global Services

Nous sommes un fournisseur de services aux entreprises et de technologies. Nous acclrons la transformation de nos clients. Notre comptence en stratgie, conception, excution et oprations libre la valeur de l'entreprise par un ventail de solutions. Nous sommes une quipe de 80 000 personnes qui collaborent avec plus de 60 000 clients, notamment 80 % du Fortune 500 en Amrique du Nord, Europe et Asie, qui collaborent avec nous dans le cadre de nos capacits full-stack et notre rythme. Nous sommes des penseurs stratgiques, des collaborateurs pratiques qui aident les clients exploiter le changement et matriser le dynamisme de la technologie. Nous btissons le futur en livrant les rsultats et en crant un impact positif dans nos communauts mondiales. TEKsystems et TEKsystems Global Services sont des entreprises d'Allegis Group. Dcouvrez d'autres informations TEKsystems.com.

About TEKsystems And TEKsystems Global Services

We're a leading provider of business and technology services. We accelerate business transformation for our customers. Our expertise in strategy, design, execution and operations unlocks business value through a range of solutions. We're a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 customers, including 80% of the Fortune 500 across North America, Europe and Asia, who partner with us for our scale, full-stack capabilities and speed. We're strategic thinkers, hands-on collaborators, helping customers capitalize on change and master the momentum of technology. We're building tomorrow by delivering business outcomes and making positive impacts in our global communities. TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services are Allegis Group companies. Learn more at TEKsystems.com.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

Salary : $60 - $100

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