Technical Lead II - Deposits
Top Benefits
About the role
We are hiring for this position out of our Toronto office. Successful candidates who apply outside of these areas will be expected to relocate and reside in a location that is within a commutable distance.
Role overview:
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 an ecosystem for providing financial services to FinTechs across Canada excites you. You are passionate about APIs, and you are 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 can work hands-on with your team, 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:
- Lead development teams to deliver secure, scalable, and high-performing systems.
- Collaborate with architecture and other leads to vet technologies, set standards, and align integration timelines.
- Oversee development quality through code reviews, release coordination, and clear user story definition.
- Actively support teams in solving complex technical challenges and integrating new technologies.
- Ensure adherence to best practices in code quality, security, testing, and documentation.
- Partner with business and technical teams to build the next-gen Deposits ecosystem.
- Define and align product and technology roadmaps with long-term business goals.
- Establish and maintain development standards, guidelines, and team-wide consistency.
- Explore, validate, and implement new technologies, translating concepts into production-ready solutions.
About the qualifications:
- 10+ years of experience in software development.
- Experience with cloud-native microservices and building scalable, resilient systems.
- 2+ years working in financial institutions or fintech.
- 6+ years designing and delivering APIs using RESTful standards, Webhooks, GraphQL, and Websockets.
- Skilled in OpenAPI 3.x for authoring, implementing, and consuming APIs.
- Experience publishing high-throughput, public-facing APIs with strong security and performance.
- Background in Retail or Commercial Banking, Operations, or Compliance is an asset.
- Experience with customer-facing APIs and backend systems.
- Proven leadership in development teams, including design, code reviews, and delivery.
- Comfortable working with cross-functional teams (Product, QA, DevOps).
- Passionate about defining development standards, API contracts, and release processes.
- Technical expertise in AWS (EKS, API Gateway, WAF, ALB, NLB, VPC, SNS), Kubernetes, and Docker.
- Strong backend development skills in Java (JDK 17/21), Spring Boot, Spring Web/Data/Integration.
- Proficient in OpenAPI (contract/code-first), MapStruct, and ModelMapper.
- Experience with relational databases (Oracle, MSSQL) and in-memory databases (Redis).
- Familiar with messaging systems like ActiveMQ and SQS.
- Deep understanding of OAuth2, OIDC, and JWT from both client and server perspectives.
- Skilled in designing high-performance microservices, batch components, and integrating third-party software.
- Experience collaborating with data engineering teams and contributing to data warehouses.
- Knowledge of secure application development and design best practices (e.g., components, class diagrams).
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 plus a discretionary profit share opportunity. Salary for this position will vary between $140,000 and $170,000 per year depending on the knowledge, skills, abilities and experience that the chosen candidate possesses.
Help us get to know you better by answering our application questions! Your participation is expected as an 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.
Technical Lead II - Deposits
Top Benefits
About the role
We are hiring for this position out of our Toronto office. Successful candidates who apply outside of these areas will be expected to relocate and reside in a location that is within a commutable distance.
Role overview:
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 an ecosystem for providing financial services to FinTechs across Canada excites you. You are passionate about APIs, and you are 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 can work hands-on with your team, 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:
- Lead development teams to deliver secure, scalable, and high-performing systems.
- Collaborate with architecture and other leads to vet technologies, set standards, and align integration timelines.
- Oversee development quality through code reviews, release coordination, and clear user story definition.
- Actively support teams in solving complex technical challenges and integrating new technologies.
- Ensure adherence to best practices in code quality, security, testing, and documentation.
- Partner with business and technical teams to build the next-gen Deposits ecosystem.
- Define and align product and technology roadmaps with long-term business goals.
- Establish and maintain development standards, guidelines, and team-wide consistency.
- Explore, validate, and implement new technologies, translating concepts into production-ready solutions.
About the qualifications:
- 10+ years of experience in software development.
- Experience with cloud-native microservices and building scalable, resilient systems.
- 2+ years working in financial institutions or fintech.
- 6+ years designing and delivering APIs using RESTful standards, Webhooks, GraphQL, and Websockets.
- Skilled in OpenAPI 3.x for authoring, implementing, and consuming APIs.
- Experience publishing high-throughput, public-facing APIs with strong security and performance.
- Background in Retail or Commercial Banking, Operations, or Compliance is an asset.
- Experience with customer-facing APIs and backend systems.
- Proven leadership in development teams, including design, code reviews, and delivery.
- Comfortable working with cross-functional teams (Product, QA, DevOps).
- Passionate about defining development standards, API contracts, and release processes.
- Technical expertise in AWS (EKS, API Gateway, WAF, ALB, NLB, VPC, SNS), Kubernetes, and Docker.
- Strong backend development skills in Java (JDK 17/21), Spring Boot, Spring Web/Data/Integration.
- Proficient in OpenAPI (contract/code-first), MapStruct, and ModelMapper.
- Experience with relational databases (Oracle, MSSQL) and in-memory databases (Redis).
- Familiar with messaging systems like ActiveMQ and SQS.
- Deep understanding of OAuth2, OIDC, and JWT from both client and server perspectives.
- Skilled in designing high-performance microservices, batch components, and integrating third-party software.
- Experience collaborating with data engineering teams and contributing to data warehouses.
- Knowledge of secure application development and design best practices (e.g., components, class diagrams).
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 plus a discretionary profit share opportunity. Salary for this position will vary between $140,000 and $170,000 per year depending on the knowledge, skills, abilities and experience that the chosen candidate possesses.
Help us get to know you better by answering our application questions! Your participation is expected as an 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.