Senior Software Engineer; Backend

5700 Yonge St, North York, ON M2N 5M9, Canada

Posted Tuesday, September 30, 2025 at 3:00 AM

Questrade Financial Group (QFG), through its companies - Questrade, Inc., Questrade Wealth Management Inc., Community Trust Company, Zolo, and Flexiti Financial Inc., provides securities and foreign currency investment, professionally managed investment portfolios, mortgages, real estate services, financial services and more. Questrade uses cutting-edge technologies to develop innovative products that give customers better, more affordable ways to take control of their money.

We are everything a traditional financial institution is not. At QFG, you will be constantly moving forward, bringing the future of fintech into existence. You will be a part of a collaborative team that cares deeply about our mission and each other. Your team members will help you conquer challenges, push boundaries and discover what you are truly capable of.

At QFG, we have a culture of innovation where technology serves people—both our team and our customers. We see AI as a collaborative and transformative enabler, and we are seeking forward-thinking individuals who can effectively integrate it into their daily work. The ideal candidate will be a catalyst for change, helping us use AI to create a more efficient and rewarding employee experience while also developing cutting‑edge solutions that delight and serve our customers.

Join us in shaping a future where AI empowers our team to do their best work and helps us deliver unparalleled customer experiences.

This is a place where you can explore, discover and learn with continuous growth. As a diverse and inclusive place to work, with a hybrid working environment you can unleash your creativity and curiosity with no limits. If you share the same sense of infinite possibility, come shape your future at QFG.

• Health & wellbeing resources and programs
• Paid vacation, personal, and sick days for work‑life balance
• Competitive compensation and benefits packages
• Work‑life balance in a hybrid environment with at least 3 days in office
• Career growth and development opportunities
• Opportunities to contribute to community causes
• Work with diverse team members in an inclusive and collaborative environment

The ideal candidate for this position is experienced in designing and developing high performing and scalable applications that deliver business value. This position will be involved in small to large scale projects through all stages of the software development life cycle from requirements gathering to implementation. This person will collaborate with the user interface and experience teams, other back‑end and front‑end developers and architects to deliver great applications.

• Be a forward‑thinking technologist who is continuously researching new approaches to problems and discussing them with others in a productive manner, in a community of practice setting.
• Be actively involved in designing new application features and functionality, improving scalability and maintainability.
• Support and expertise for a complex and hybrid (cloud and on‑premises) infrastructure environment; evaluation (with recommendations) to enable proper operability of applications on both infrastructure and software levels.
• Meet regularly and interact productively with a diverse team of business stakeholders, user interface and experience designers, architects, engineers as needed to elicit, define, analyze and document requirements and principles for new applications.
• Support less experienced team members in defining technical requirements to facilitate design, development, testing, implementation and ongoing support of applications within the team.
• Provide coaching to other team members to assist them with technical challenges and assignments.
• Ensure timely escalation of issues that are blocking oneself or the team.
• Help the team support applications built in production, addressing issues in a timely fashion, respecting agreed upon service level objectives.
• Contribute to defining and…