Team Lead, Software Engineering

Questrade is on a mission to help Canadians to become much more financially successful and secure.

For nearly 30 years, Questrade Financial Group has been delivering on that mission through investing, banking, mortgages, and real estate. Together, we tilt finance in favour of ambitious Canadians, creating new ways for them to seize the financial future they deserve.

We're looking for people who are ready to enter their career inflection point. Mission-driven, exceptional folks that never settle. The work here is hard because the responsibility is real. If that's the standard you've been looking for, keep reading.

Req #4164

The return on your career investment

• Compensation and incentives built to reward the value you bring.
• RRSP matching of up to 6%.
• Health and wellness resources and programs, including $5,000 in mental health practitioner coverage.
• $5,000 in tuition subsidies for job-related courses, every year.
• 100% parental top-up, up to 26 weeks for birthing parents and 18 weeks for non-birthing parents.
• A hybrid environment, with at least three days in the office built for working together.
• Paid vacation, personal, and sick days.
• A community care day to give back to the causes you care about.

This job posting is for an existing vacancy.

We’re looking for our next Team Lead, Software Engineer

The Team Lead architecturally orchestrates integration layers and unifies customer journeys across complex and legacy systems. This leadership role focuses on technical stewardship in areas like identity propagation, implementing resilience engineering patterns, and managing technical debt. The Team Lead also mentors engineers and partners cross-functionally to ensure structural soundness and feasibility during feature discovery.

The mandate

In this role, you will:

• Drive cross-domain orchestration by architecting resilient integration layers (e.g., GraphQL Federation, API Gateways) that aggregate legacy banking cores and microservices.
• Unify customer journeys, ensuring core workflows like money transfers deliver smooth, performant experiences across savings, brokerage, and lending products.
• Champion technical stewardship, owning single sign-on (SSO), cross-app session management, and identity propagation (KYC/AML) to balance security and usability.
• Implement resilience engineering patterns (circuit breakers, retries, bulkhead isolation) to prevent failure propagation across heterogeneous platforms.
• Lead and mentor Pod engineers, fostering a holistic engineering mindset regarding how system latency and data flows impact the broader user dashboard.
• Partner cross-functionally with UX Research and Product Management to embed technical feasibility into feature designs during early discovery.
• Make high-judgment calls on technical debt, distinguishing speed-buying workarounds from technical rot while navigating legacy middleware and APIs.
• Lead root-cause analysis for multi-system outages, focusing incident command on structural fixes rather than immediate workarounds.

You’re ready for this mandate if you have the following qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 7+ years of software development experience with demonstrated technical leadership or Pod lead responsibilities.
• Proven experience designing and scaling orchestration layers (GraphQL Federation, API Gateways) across heterogeneous systems.
• Strong background in distributed transaction management, eventual consistency, and identity standards (OAuth2, OIDC, JWTs, SSO).
• Practical experience implementing resilience patterns (circuit breakers, retries, bulkhead isolation) across complex system boundaries.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers, influence technical roadmaps, and partner cross-functionally with UX and Product

Nice to have

• Experience navigating financial regulatory requirements (PII, SOC 2, AML/KYC) while maintaining user experience standards.
• Incident command experience leading root-cause analysis across complex, multi-system outages.
• Strong track record of high-judgment calls on technical debt and legacy system modernization

Compensation Information

• Base salary range: $130,000 - $170,000
• The final compensation package will be commensurate with the successful candidate's experience, skills, and geographic location (Canada). It includes a comprehensive benefits plan and a competitive incentive (bonus) program for Full-Time Permanent roles.

Enter your career inflection point. Apply now.

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The final compensation package will be commensurate with the successful candidate's experience, skills, and geographic location (Canada). It includes a comprehensive benefits plan and a competitive incentive (bonus) program for Full-Time Permanent roles.

Base salary range

$130,000—$175,000 CAD

Technology and AI

We mix human ingenuity with advanced technology. For ambitious builders like you, we provide the latest technology to enable your creativity. You'll have everything you need to build the best outcomes and products for our clients.

Diversity and Inclusion

At Questrade Financial Group of Companies, we’re committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive, and accessible work environment where individuals are treated with dignity and respect. Our global team reflects the diversity of the communities we serve and operate in.

Accessibility statement

Candidates selected for an interview are contacted directly. If you require accommodation during the recruitment or selection process, please let us know. We will work with you to meet your needs.

AI in hiring

Questrade Financial Group of companies Applicant Tracking System uses artificial intelligence (AI) for application screening. The AI system operates on predetermined criteria, with final decisions subject to human review.