Senior Software Developer

Senior Software Developer – Caseware

Caseware is one of Canada’s original FinTech companies, leading the global audit and accounting software industry for over 30 years, serving more than 500,000 users across 130 countries and available in 16 languages.

Position Information

This is a full‑time permanent position. This is an existing vacancy.

Location: Hybrid role requiring the successful candidate to work 3 days a week in our Toronto office, located at 351 King St E, Toronto, ON.

What you will be doing:

• Create prototypes and software design proposals that provide short‑term business value while aligning with future‑state product and architecture vision.
• Research and break down large initiatives into parallelizable chunks of work that provide incremental business value toward the end feature goal.
• Champion proposals into production through all phases of the Agile SDLC from design to implementation.
• Contribute to improving the core product build, CI/CD pipelines, and overall SDLC.
• Work with senior developers and architects to define and oversee the execution of the product architecture roadmap.
• Troubleshoot and eliminate persistent root causes for production issues that your product faces.
• Facilitate design discussions within and outside of the squad.
• Represent the team in technical discussions with Tech Leads, Operations, Product/UX, and external stakeholders.
• Provide mentorship to the other developers on your team through design reviews, pair programming, and code reviews.
• Keep technical documentation up to date and create new artifacts when required.
• Share knowledge on new technologies and industry best practices to build our coding standards.

What you will bring:

• Experience building highly distributed microservice architecture using Java 17/21, Spring Boot 3.x, and Gradle.
• Strong OOP skills, advocate for code quality, Design Patterns, and SOLID principles.
• Experience with complex projects in the public cloud (AWS, ideally).
• Developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions or other tool.
• Creating and optimizing complex SQL queries, stored procedures, and functions.
• Strong initiative to improve processes, tools, methodologies, and product quality.
• Expertise with test‑driven development, unit tests, integration tests, and end‑to‑end tests.
• Experience with developing and working with thoughtfully designed HTTP APIs, such as REST or GraphQL.
• Proficiently use inline code completion tools in your daily IDE workflow.
• Use conversational AI assistants for pair programming, design discussion, debugging, and documentation.
• Critically evaluate all AI‑generated output before committing, verifying correctness, security, and alignment with team standards.
• Identify routine or well‑scoped tasks as candidates for agentic automation, and propose improvements to your tools/workflows to support this.
• Build feedback loops: document what worked, what failed, and why, to improve future agent performance and team understanding.
• Collaborate with your team to design and instrument AI‑powered developer tooling; measure its impact on velocity and quality.
• Nice to haves: SPA development using Angular/TypeScript, experience with Serverless Framework, trunk‑based development, automated testing frameworks such as Cypress, RestAssured, JMeter, knowledge of accounting and auditing concepts, experience with a large enterprise monorepo codebase (NX preferred), experience with container technologies such as Docker, ideally with container orchestration such as Kubernetes.
• Tech stack you’ll be working with: Java 17/21 (Spring Boot 3.x), microservices hosted on AWS EKS, Lambda Serverless, orchestration with AWS Step Functions & SNS/SQS, NX monorepos, storage on AWS Aurora, DynamoDB, MongoDB, S3, Jira to manage our backlog, IntelliJ (IDEA/PyCharm) with Claude Code, Microsoft 365 (Outlook, OneDrive, Teams, Word, Excel, etc.) and Slack.

Salary Range

The annual base salary for this position is between $120,000 CAD and $140,000 CAD per year. The role is also eligible for discretionary bonus and/or commission, as well as other benefits. Actual pay within the listed range will be determined based on factors such as transferable skills, relevant experience, market conditions, and primary work location.

The posted range is subject to change and may be updated periodically.

Benefits

• Innovation at our core. We work with cutting‑edge technology in accounting and financial reporting, constantly pushing the boundaries to create impactful software solutions.
• Commitment to a collaborative culture, where ideas are valued and knowledge sharing is encouraged within a supportive, inclusive team.
• Work‑life balance is important to us. Flexible work options, remote opportunities, and generous time‑off policies ensure a healthy balance.
• Competitive compensation, including comprehensive benefits such as health insurance and retirement plans.
• Impactful work: contributions directly affect how our clients manage financial processes and drive their success.
• Recognition and rewards matter to us. We celebrate hard work through recognition programs, performance bonuses, and opportunities for career growth.
• Global opportunities: work on international projects and collaborate with a diverse, global team.

About Caseware

Caseware’s cutting‑edge software products are meticulously designed for accounting firms, corporations, and governments. Our teams continuously collaborate, innovate, and build upon our existing suite of products. With a customer‑focused mindset, we are building technology that is shaping the future of audits, financial reporting, and financial data analytics.

With a recent strategic investment from Hg Capital in 2020, Caseware is now in its next major growth phase as we double down on the people and products that have made Caseware so successful to date.

One of Caseware’s core values is Many Voices, One Team and, with that in mind, we’re dedicated to building teams as diverse as our customers in an equitable and inclusive way. We welcome and encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply. Should you require accommodations or have any questions at any point during the application or interview process, please e‑mail our People Operations team at [email protected].

AI Usage

The recruitment process may use AI‑assisted tools but not for candidate screening or assessment. All final hiring decisions are made by humans to ensure fairness, transparency, and oversight.

Background Check

Any candidates successful in obtaining an offer for a position will need to successfully complete a background check through Certn.co which typically includes an Identity Verification and Criminal Record Check. Executives and Senior Managers will undergo a Soft Credit Check as well. Candidates residing in the Netherlands and Germany are excluded from undergoing background checks via Certn.co.

Security and Fraud

Caseware takes the security of candidates seriously. All legitimate communication from us will come from email addresses ending in @caseware.com and our open positions are always listed on reputable job boards and on our website https://jobs.lever.co/caseware. We will never ask for payment or financial information from you. If you receive an unsolicited job offer, proceed with extreme caution.

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