TD Securities is a leading North American investment bank and financial services provider. The Global FICC (Fixed Income, Currency, Commodities) Technology group drives business growth by delivering innovative products, expanding trading tool capabilities, and modernising critical platforms. This team works with corporate, government, and institutional clients worldwide.
The Realtime, Electronic & Automation team builds and operates the digital and real-time platforms that power trading and client connectivity across the Precious Metals, Base Metals, and FX Options businesses. This role sits at the intersection of trading, real-time systems, automation, and market connectivity, delivering technology that directly enables automated trading workflows, accelerates new business ideas, and integrates seamlessly with internal and external market infrastructure.
Engineers on this team own their systems front-to-back, from low-latency services and real-time data flows through to the user interfaces used daily on trading desks. This environment empowers engineers to take responsibility, make decisions, and see the real-world impact of their work, fostering a strong culture of ownership and accountability.
Key Responsibilities
Design, develop, and maintain robust, scalable backend services and APIs using Java (versions 17 and 21) with Spring Boot, contributing to critical platforms such as Metals Orderbook, Auctionbook, STP, and other real-time services. You will build high-performance, secure, and maintainable server-side solutions, integrating with relational databases like Azure SQL Server and NoSQL databases such as MongoDB, while ensuring reliable integration with front-end applications.
Work closely with business stakeholders in the Commodities Metals domain within Capital Markets to understand requirements and translate them into effective technical solutions, with guidance from senior engineers. You will contribute to solutions deployed across both on-premises and Azure cloud environments, applying best practices for hybrid infrastructure and modern cloud-native development.
Take ownership of backend components within projects, ensuring high code quality, maintainability, and alignment with established architectural patterns and standards. Diagnose and resolve production issues, participating in root cause analysis and implementing fixes that improve system stability, performance, and reliability. Actively adopt and contribute to modern DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines (TeamCity, Maven, GitHub), automated testing, and deployment processes to improve development efficiency and code quality.
Ensure backend components are developed with extensibility, security, and compliance in mind, following enterprise standards and industry best practices. Contribute to the ongoing evolution of the backend architecture by evaluating new technologies, frameworks, and approaches. Participate actively in code reviews, technical discussions, and design sessions, providing constructive feedback and learning from peers and senior engineers. Continuously develop expertise in the Java ecosystem and related technologies, demonstrating a strong passion for engineering excellence.
What You'll Bring
You should have a minimum of three years of professional, hands-on software development experience building and supporting production systems. This includes strong working knowledge of Java, with experience developing backend services using modern Java versions and frameworks such as Spring Boot. Experience contributing to distributed and/or event-driven systems in a production environment is essential.
Exposure to low-latency or real-time systems, ideally within financial services, trading platforms, or similarly performance-sensitive domains, is highly valued. Familiarity with electronic trading concepts such as order lifecycles, market data, FIX connectivity, or trading workflows will be beneficial. Experience working with messaging or streaming technologies, including Kafka, Aeron, or Solace, is also required.
You will have the ability to take ownership of technical deliverables within a project, contributing across design, implementation, testing, deployment, and production support with support from senior engineers. A solid understanding of core software engineering best practices, including clean code, basic system design principles, performance considerations, observability, and operational reliability, is expected.
Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams, including other engineers, product owners, or business stakeholders, is important. You will possess good written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly explain technical concepts and participate constructively in team discussions. A demonstrated ability to work effectively in a collaborative, multi-stakeholder environment and a willingness to learn from feedback and mentorship will ensure your success.
Compensation & Perks
The pay range for this role is $105,100 to $129,400 CAD. This role is eligible for a discretionary variable compensation award that considers business and individual performance. TD is committed to providing fair and equitable compensation opportunities to all colleagues, with growth opportunities and skill development being defining features of the colleague experience.
The base pay actually offered may vary based upon the candidate's skills and experience, job-related knowledge, geographic location, and other specific business and organisational needs. Our Total Rewards package reflects the investments we make in our colleagues to help them and their families achieve their financial, physical, and mental well-being goals. This includes a base salary, variable compensation, health and well-being benefits, savings and retirement programs, paid time off, banking benefits and discounts, career development, and reward and recognition programs.
TD is committed to your success, fostering a respectful workplace where diverse perspectives are valued and everyone has fair opportunities to grow. Training and onboarding sessions are provided to ensure you have everything needed to succeed in your new role, along with regular development conversations, training programs, and access to an online learning platform and mentoring programs.
