Lead Software Engineer

The role

You will own and operate an AWS-based integration platform called Integration Hub. You will lead an engineering team, manage backend API services, and support the transition of production support from a vendor to an internal team.

What you will do

• Lead and develop an engineering team by prioritizing workloads and coaching members
• Own and evolve backend API services built with Node.js / NestJS on AWS ECS
• Design and implement event-driven patterns using Kafka and caching with Redis
• Support and enhance file ingestion pipelines using S3, Lambda, and Python/Node.js
• Maintain and improve data sync workloads
• Lead and participate in on-call and incident response
• Improve CI/CD and engineering quality
• Manage infrastructure changes via Terraform
• Collaborate with Business stakeholders on requirements and release planning
• Drive knowledge transfer from vendor to internal team

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent amount of experience
• 10+ years of software engineering experience
• Strong backend development expertise
• Strong Node.js experience
• Solid experience operating production systems in AWS (ECS, Lambda, S3, RDS/Postgres, CloudWatch)
• Comfortable with DevOps practices: CI/CD pipelines, containerization, observability, incident response
• Proficiency with relational databases (Postgres) including performance troubleshooting and data integrity
• Strong communication skills
• Ownership mindset

Nice to have

• Terraform
• NestJS
• Experience with event streaming/messaging (Kafka/MSK)
• Python experience
• Experience with regulated/financial data flows, reconciliation, or integration platforms
• Experience hardening systems for reliability (idempotency, retries, DLQs, backpressure)

Benefits

• Discretionary Annual Bonus
• Health and dental plans with 100% of the premiums covered
• Employee Assistance Program
• Retirement savings options
• Reimbursement for tuition assistance and professional development
• Discounts through Perkopolis
• Rewards and recognition programs

About the company

Momentum Financial Services Group is the team behind Money Mart, Canada’s largest non-bank branch network. They provide financial solutions for underserved communities through products like short-term loans, money transfers, and prepaid cards.