Software Engineer - eTransfer
Top Benefits
About the role
We are hiring for this position out of our Toronto and Vancouver offices. Successful candidates who apply outside of these areas will be expected to relocate and reside in a location that is within a commutable distance.
About You You thrive in an environment where learning new technologies, building production ready and performant applications is part of your day-to-day job, and building solutions used by merchants and service providers across Canada excites you. You’re passionate about APIs and you’re comfortable working across technology and business teams to drive solutions, help design solid technical solutions with security, performance, resiliency in mind, and know the difference between a proof of concept and production grade code. And more than that, you’re able to work hands-on with your team, you enjoy the dynamic of working in a team and understand the importance of teamwork and collaboration in delivering Agile projects.
About The Day-to-day
- Develop high-quality software solutions:
- Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code.
- Implement features and fix bugs as per the requirements.
- Ensure code adheres to established standards and best practices.
- Participate in daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives.
- Provide input on technical decisions and contribute to team discussions.
- Work closely with other developers, QA engineers, and product owners.
- Review pull requests from peers to ensure code quality and consistency.
- Ensure code is well-documented and follows security best practices.
- Collaborate with the team to find solutions to complex problems.
- Stay hands-on with coding and technical problem-solving.
- Troubleshoot and debug issues in the development and production environments.
- Follow Agile methodologies and participate in the software development lifecycle.
- Assist in estimating effort and planning tasks for sprints.
- Help refine user stories and clarify requirements with product owners.
- Stay updated with the latest industry trends and technologies.
- Share knowledge and mentor junior developers.
- Implement security measures and conduct security reviews.
- Write unit tests and perform development testing.
- Monitor application performance and optimize code for efficiency.
- Work with business and technical teams to build and enhance APIs.
- Ensure APIs are well-documented and meet performance standards.
- Participate in discussions to define API objectives and roadmaps.
About The Qualifications
- 7+ years in software development
- Strong experience with cloud-native microservices.
- Background in payments, banking, or fintech is a plus.
- Proven ability to build scalable, reliable, and high-performance systems.
- Proficient in REST, GraphQL, Webhooks, WebSocket, gRPC, and OpenAPI 3.x.
- Skilled in building secure, high-throughput, and well-documented APIs.
- Active in design, development, code reviews, and delivery.
- Experienced in refining requirements and defining acceptance criteria.
- Effective communicator with Product, QA, DevOps, and other stakeholders.
- Familiar with CI/CD, containerization, infrastructure as code, and GitOps.
About The Team Our teams deliver secure, real-time digital financial services to fintech partners across North America. We support a wide range of payment methods—including Bill Payments, EFT, Interac eTransfers, Wire Transfers, and CAD/USD Credit and Debit—through modern APIs. Peoples Group also offers Merchant Acquiring and Card Issuing sponsorships, streamlining client onboarding and product management. We're investing in Open and White Label banking to unify our services into a flexible, embedded financial ecosystem. To support this, we're enhancing our distribution channels and elevating both developer and partner experiences.
About Us Peoples Group is a boutique financial institution with offices located in Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, and Montreal that has been in the Canadian marketplace for over 35 years. Our mission is to exceed our customers' expectations by providing exceptional customer service backed by extensive product knowledge and experience.
Our culture here at Peoples Group is formed by our values: Trustworthy, Creative, Willing. We believe people don't choose a company to work for, they choose a company to join. We prioritize risk-based practices and procedures in order to remain risk intelligent and compliant. We value people, building relationships, and focusing on strengths; we execute with passion.
About The Work Environment Peoples Group offers a flexible and hybrid work environment. In this role you will work a combination of in-office and remotely from home. Typically, you'll be working regular business hours, Monday to Friday between 8:00am and 4:30pm with flexibility around start/end times.
We Offer
- A hybrid work environment, enabling you to balance your personal and professional life seamlessly.
- Competitive salaries, profit sharing, RRSP matching and benefits from day one.
- Generous paid time off to help achieve a healthy work-life balance.
- A strengths-based approach, ensuring we work together more effectively.
- A commitment to your well-being in five key areas: Financial, Physical, Social, Career, and Community.
Compensation Peoples Group is pleased to offer employees a competitive annual salary and discretionary profit share opportunity. Salary for this position will vary between $110,000 and $140,000 per year depending on the knowledge, skills, abilities & experience that the chosen candidate possess. As part of our recruiting process, shortlisted candidates will be asked their salary expectations for this position.
Help us get to know you better by answering our application questions! Your participation is an expected and essential part of our selection process.
NOTE: This job posting is for an existing vacancy. Peoples Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Please accept our utmost appreciation for your interest; however, only those applicants under consideration will be contacted.
We value and celebrate individuality while fostering an inclusive workplace for everyone. If there's any way we can support or accommodate you during the selection process, please don't hesitate to let us know.
About Peoples Group
Peoples Group has been providing a tailored suite of financial solutions and delivering world-class customer interactions, since 1985. Over the years, we’ve thoughtfully expanded our product and service offerings based on customer needs. We expect to continue this successful journey in the years to come. We have grown substantial market share in the insured commercial lending space and are the leading issuer of prepaid payment cards in Canada, as well as an innovative merchant acquirer. We are an entrepreneurial organization that excels at customizing solutions to fit the needs of our clients. As a trusted partner of many fintechs, we have a proven track record of providing tools and guidance so they can realize their success.
Today, Peoples Group has 455+ employees and operates nationally in Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto and Montreal. Our success comes from our employees who bring our vision and values to life. By valuing people, building relationships, and focusing on strengths, we execute with passion.
And we mean it. We live our vision and values every day by being Trustworthy, Willing, Creative. What does this look like? We believe everyone has strengths that make them unique and are their greatest opportunity for success. We focus on strengths, the strength of our employees, the strength of our customers and build from there.
Focusing on strengths allows our company to be best positioned to build on our other two values: Relationship Building and Passionate Execution. Working at Peoples has a community feeling, where people care about each other and display pride in their work. At Peoples, every employee, at all locations and levels, is empowered to make an impact and contribute ideas.
Software Engineer - eTransfer
Top Benefits
About the role
We are hiring for this position out of our Toronto and Vancouver offices. Successful candidates who apply outside of these areas will be expected to relocate and reside in a location that is within a commutable distance.
About You You thrive in an environment where learning new technologies, building production ready and performant applications is part of your day-to-day job, and building solutions used by merchants and service providers across Canada excites you. You’re passionate about APIs and you’re comfortable working across technology and business teams to drive solutions, help design solid technical solutions with security, performance, resiliency in mind, and know the difference between a proof of concept and production grade code. And more than that, you’re able to work hands-on with your team, you enjoy the dynamic of working in a team and understand the importance of teamwork and collaboration in delivering Agile projects.
About The Day-to-day
- Develop high-quality software solutions:
- Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code.
- Implement features and fix bugs as per the requirements.
- Ensure code adheres to established standards and best practices.
- Participate in daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives.
- Provide input on technical decisions and contribute to team discussions.
- Work closely with other developers, QA engineers, and product owners.
- Review pull requests from peers to ensure code quality and consistency.
- Ensure code is well-documented and follows security best practices.
- Collaborate with the team to find solutions to complex problems.
- Stay hands-on with coding and technical problem-solving.
- Troubleshoot and debug issues in the development and production environments.
- Follow Agile methodologies and participate in the software development lifecycle.
- Assist in estimating effort and planning tasks for sprints.
- Help refine user stories and clarify requirements with product owners.
- Stay updated with the latest industry trends and technologies.
- Share knowledge and mentor junior developers.
- Implement security measures and conduct security reviews.
- Write unit tests and perform development testing.
- Monitor application performance and optimize code for efficiency.
- Work with business and technical teams to build and enhance APIs.
- Ensure APIs are well-documented and meet performance standards.
- Participate in discussions to define API objectives and roadmaps.
About The Qualifications
- 7+ years in software development
- Strong experience with cloud-native microservices.
- Background in payments, banking, or fintech is a plus.
- Proven ability to build scalable, reliable, and high-performance systems.
- Proficient in REST, GraphQL, Webhooks, WebSocket, gRPC, and OpenAPI 3.x.
- Skilled in building secure, high-throughput, and well-documented APIs.
- Active in design, development, code reviews, and delivery.
- Experienced in refining requirements and defining acceptance criteria.
- Effective communicator with Product, QA, DevOps, and other stakeholders.
- Familiar with CI/CD, containerization, infrastructure as code, and GitOps.
About The Team Our teams deliver secure, real-time digital financial services to fintech partners across North America. We support a wide range of payment methods—including Bill Payments, EFT, Interac eTransfers, Wire Transfers, and CAD/USD Credit and Debit—through modern APIs. Peoples Group also offers Merchant Acquiring and Card Issuing sponsorships, streamlining client onboarding and product management. We're investing in Open and White Label banking to unify our services into a flexible, embedded financial ecosystem. To support this, we're enhancing our distribution channels and elevating both developer and partner experiences.
About Us Peoples Group is a boutique financial institution with offices located in Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, and Montreal that has been in the Canadian marketplace for over 35 years. Our mission is to exceed our customers' expectations by providing exceptional customer service backed by extensive product knowledge and experience.
Our culture here at Peoples Group is formed by our values: Trustworthy, Creative, Willing. We believe people don't choose a company to work for, they choose a company to join. We prioritize risk-based practices and procedures in order to remain risk intelligent and compliant. We value people, building relationships, and focusing on strengths; we execute with passion.
About The Work Environment Peoples Group offers a flexible and hybrid work environment. In this role you will work a combination of in-office and remotely from home. Typically, you'll be working regular business hours, Monday to Friday between 8:00am and 4:30pm with flexibility around start/end times.
We Offer
- A hybrid work environment, enabling you to balance your personal and professional life seamlessly.
- Competitive salaries, profit sharing, RRSP matching and benefits from day one.
- Generous paid time off to help achieve a healthy work-life balance.
- A strengths-based approach, ensuring we work together more effectively.
- A commitment to your well-being in five key areas: Financial, Physical, Social, Career, and Community.
Compensation Peoples Group is pleased to offer employees a competitive annual salary and discretionary profit share opportunity. Salary for this position will vary between $110,000 and $140,000 per year depending on the knowledge, skills, abilities & experience that the chosen candidate possess. As part of our recruiting process, shortlisted candidates will be asked their salary expectations for this position.
Help us get to know you better by answering our application questions! Your participation is an expected and essential part of our selection process.
NOTE: This job posting is for an existing vacancy. Peoples Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Please accept our utmost appreciation for your interest; however, only those applicants under consideration will be contacted.
We value and celebrate individuality while fostering an inclusive workplace for everyone. If there's any way we can support or accommodate you during the selection process, please don't hesitate to let us know.
About Peoples Group
Peoples Group has been providing a tailored suite of financial solutions and delivering world-class customer interactions, since 1985. Over the years, we’ve thoughtfully expanded our product and service offerings based on customer needs. We expect to continue this successful journey in the years to come. We have grown substantial market share in the insured commercial lending space and are the leading issuer of prepaid payment cards in Canada, as well as an innovative merchant acquirer. We are an entrepreneurial organization that excels at customizing solutions to fit the needs of our clients. As a trusted partner of many fintechs, we have a proven track record of providing tools and guidance so they can realize their success.
Today, Peoples Group has 455+ employees and operates nationally in Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto and Montreal. Our success comes from our employees who bring our vision and values to life. By valuing people, building relationships, and focusing on strengths, we execute with passion.
And we mean it. We live our vision and values every day by being Trustworthy, Willing, Creative. What does this look like? We believe everyone has strengths that make them unique and are their greatest opportunity for success. We focus on strengths, the strength of our employees, the strength of our customers and build from there.
Focusing on strengths allows our company to be best positioned to build on our other two values: Relationship Building and Passionate Execution. Working at Peoples has a community feeling, where people care about each other and display pride in their work. At Peoples, every employee, at all locations and levels, is empowered to make an impact and contribute ideas.