Senior Applications Developer

Senior Applications Developer

• Location: Toronto, ON - Hybrid (Wednesday and Thursday in office)
• Pay Rate: $78.65/hr - $90.90/hr
• Contract Length: 6 Months

We at Raise are hiring a Senior Applications Developer for one of our top clients. After establishing themselves as an industry leader, they’re now expanding their team to meet rising demand.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, enhance, and maintain backend applications using Go (Golang)
• Take ownership of development deliverables from requirements analysis through testing and production deployment.
• Understand the existing application architecture, business domain, dependencies, and supporting systems.
• Provide hands‑on support throughout development, integration testing, user acceptance testing, implementation, and production release activities.
• Independently lead smaller projects or application initiatives.
• Provide technical direction, mentorship, and development guidance to team members.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive unit test suites using Test‑Driven Development practices.
• Apply clean code principles and established software development best practices.
• Promote consistent coding, testing, and quality standards across the development team.
• Use static code analysis and security scanning tools to identify and address code quality, security, and vulnerability concerns.
• Collaborate with development, testing, security, and delivery stakeholders.
• Demonstrate awareness of and interest in AI‑assisted and AI‑driven software development tools and practices.

Must Have Requirement:

• 6-8 years of overall software development experience.
• Minimum two to three years of hands‑on Go (Golang) development experience.
• Strong backend application development experience.
• Experience providing technical direction, mentorship, or guidance to development team members.
• Strong working knowledge of Test‑Driven Development.
• Experience writing and maintaining comprehensive unit test suites.
• Experience with static code analysis and security or vulnerability scanning tools, including Snyk and SonarQube.

Nice to Have:

• Awareness of and genuine interest in AI‑assisted or AI‑driven development tools and practices
• Exposure to payment applications, foreign exchange platforms, or Capital Markets technology environments would be beneficial but is not mandatory

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Raise is an established hiring firm with over 65 years of experience. We believe strongly in making the world a better place through work, which is why we’re a certified B Corporation and donate 10% of our profits to charity.

We strive to build teams that reflect the diversity of the communities we work in. We encourage all qualified applicants to apply, including people from traditionally underrepresented groups such as women, visible minorities, Indigenous peoples, people identifying as LGBTQ2SI, veterans, and people with visible/nonvisible disabilities.

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