Senior Software developer (back-end)

Job description

Caseware is one of Canada's original Fintech companies, having led the global audit and accounting software industry for over 30 years, with more than 500,000 users across 130 countries and available in 16 different languages. While you might not have heard of us (yet) over 36,000 accounting and audit professionals list Caseware as a skill on their LinkedIn profiles! As a Senior Software Developer, you operate as a technical leader within your team and across the broader engineering organization. You shape architecture and design, raise the bar on engineering quality, mentor other developers, and partner closely with cross-functional stakeholders to translate technical decisions into business value. You are equally comfortable guiding agentic-AI tools to deliver code, reviewing designs, and influencing how the platform evolves. ### What you will do: - Create architecture, prototypes, and design proposals that deliver near-term business value while aligning with the future-state product and platform vision. - Influence technical direction through architecture reviews, RFCs, design discussions, and hands-on collaboration. - Partner with senior developers, architects, and tech leads to define and execute the product/platform architecture roadmap. - Balance delivery speed, quality, maintainability, and long-term platform health when making technical decisions. - Break down large initiatives into parallelizable chunks of work that deliver incremental business value. - Champion proposals through all phases of the SDLC, from design through production implementation. - Contribute to improving the core product build, CI/CD pipelines, and overall SDLC. - Troubleshoot and eliminate root causes of persistent production issues; drive reliability, observability, monitoring, and incident response. - Keep technical documentation current and create new artifacts as needed. - Facilitate design discussions within and across teams. - Represent the team in technical discussions with Tech Leads, Operations, Product/UX, Security, Domain SMEs, and external stakeholders. - Act as a trusted technical leader, helping teams succeed through collaboration, influence, and shared ownership. - Mentor other developers through design reviews, joint agentic-AI sessions, and feedback on skills, prompts, and other agent inputs; contribute to raising overall engineering maturity. - Share knowledge of new technologies and industry best practices. - Evaluate emerging technologies, frameworks, and cloud capabilities that could benefit the platform. **AI-Augmented Development** - Use AI-assisted development tools — inline completion, conversational assistants, and agentic workflows — as a standard part of your daily workflow. - Critically evaluate and take ownership of all AI-generated output before it ships — verify correctness, security, and alignment with architecture and team standards. - Identify opportunities for agentic automation within your team, and lead the rollout of new AI-assisted workflows and tooling. - Mentor other developers on effective, responsible use of AI-assisted development tools. - Help establish team-level practices and guardrails for using AI tools safely and effectively. - Build and refine feedback loops that improve the team's collective use of AI tooling over time. **Back-End Engineering Focus** - Define and evolve the architecture of back-end services, establishing standards for scalability, security, and reliability. - Influence technical direction for back-end systems through design reviews, RFCs, and hands-on collaboration. - Partner with QA, Security, and Product to ensure robust, well-tested services. - Mentor back-end engineers and raise the bar on code quality and system design. ### What you wll bring: - Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience, with 8+ years of professional software development experience and demonstrated impact beyond a single team. - Deep expertise in Java, Spring Boot, distributed back-end systems, and cloud-native architecture at scale, ideally on AWS. - Experience designing and operating SaaS or multi-tenant platforms and owning the architecture of scalable back-end services. - Strong software fundamentals, including object-oriented programming, design patterns, SOLID principles, and a track record of advocating for code quality. - Experience with agentic-AI software development practices and responsible use of AI-assisted development tools. - Experience designing and consuming well-designed HTTP APIs, including REST, GraphQL, or similar approaches. - Experience mentoring developers and influencing architectural decisions across teams. - Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to operate effectively in fast-moving environments with ambiguity and evolving requirements. - Strong initiative to improve processes, tools, methodologies, and product quality. **Preferred Qualifications**