Software Engineer II; Full-stack

Join a Challenger

Being a traditional bank just isn’t our thing, so we challenge ourselves to get creative in providing innovative banking solutions for Canadians.

How do we get there? With a talented team of inquisitive and agile challengers that break through the status quo. So, if you’re passionate about redefining the future of banking—while having fun—this could be your next big opportunity.

Our company continues to grow, and today we serve more than 670,000 people across Canada through Equitable Bank, Canada’s Challenger Bank™, and have been around for more than 50 years. Equitable Bank’s wholly‑owned subsidiary, Concentra Bank, supports credit unions across Canada that serve more than six million members. Together we have over $125 billion in combined assets under management and administration, with a clear mandate to drive change in Canadian banking to enrich people’s lives.

Our customers have named our EQ Bank digital platform () one of the top banks in Canada on the Forbes World’s Best Banks list since 2021.

EQ Bank is building a best‑in‑class agile product organization to put customers at the heart of everything we do as we build the future of banking in Canada. Cross‑functional pods are empowered to own their own domains and metrics and focus deeply on how to serve and delight their users by leveraging research, insights, data, experimentation, customer feedback, best practices, and technical excellence – all with an emphasis on time‑to‑value.

We care about solving customer problems, cross‑functional collaboration, balancing real‑time opportunities with longer term vision, and building the right thing(s), the right way(s). We are reimagining banking – come be a part of it!

Reporting to the Manager, Software Engineering, you will help drive forwards the evolution our experience platform into a modern, state‑of‑the‑art micro‑frontend architecture using foundational Azure Cloud, Dev Ops, API, and PaaS services to deliver dozens of production releases per month. You will work closely with a Senior Engineer, Tech Lead and cross‑functional team through all areas of Agile Software Development to prioritize and deliver outcome driven solutions.

This will include enabling MVP approaches and faster learning towards our customer goals and objectives.

As a Full‑stack Engineer you will be responsible for developing and supporting our front‑end and back‑end applications. You will work closely with other engineers and product managers to assess and clarify user experience and requirements, develop clean, efficient and maintainable code, participate in bug fixes. You will also support writing unit and integration test cases, automate CI/CD pipelines and participate in code review to ensure code quality and robustness.

Additionally, you will also support release and deployment of both front‑end and back‑end applications.

• Develop and maintain front‑end and back‑end applications
• Collaborate with Senior Engineers, Tech Leads, and cross‑functional teams to design and implement robust and scalable solutions.
• Participate in code reviews, establish and enforce coding standards, and ensure code quality and performance.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues related to front‑end and back‑end application development and performance.
• Work closely with product managers, Senior Engineers and Tech Lead to deliver high quality software solutions
• Collaborate with backend engineers to integrate the frontend applications with server‑side components and third‑party services.
• Participate in SCRUM meetings, share ideas, blockers if any and help in resolving issues
• Optimize our frontend solutions for performance, scalability, and usability, ensuring a smooth and responsive user experience.
• Contribute to the development of technical documentation and knowledge sharing within the engineering team.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science with a solid understanding of Object‑oriented Programming
• Minimum of 5‑7 years of experience working in cross‑functional, agile teams to deliver and support web & API applications.
• Proficiency in JavaScript/Typescript/Angular, CSS,…