Senior Software Developer, Bank & Brokerage Linking in Canada Creek, Nova Scotia at Jobgether

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Software Developer, Bank & Brokerage Linking based in Canada.

This role sits at the core of building and maintaining the financial connectivity infrastructure that powers critical user experiences such as transfers, net worth tracking, account switching, and external asset aggregation. You will work on highly complex data acquisition systems that integrate with banks and brokerages across Canada, ensuring accurate, reliable, and up-to-date financial information. The environment is highly technical and fast-evolving, involving frequent interface changes, authentication challenges, and large-scale data variability. You will contribute to designing resilient scraping and API-based systems that can recover quickly and scale efficiently. This position blends deep backend engineering with real-world financial system complexity. You will collaborate closely with product, security, infrastructure, and SRE teams to deliver trustworthy financial data at scale. It is an opportunity to shape the next generation of open banking infrastructure.

• Build and maintain secure and scalable connections to banks and brokerages using APIs, scraping systems, and custom data acquisition flows.
• Design and improve resilient pipelines that ensure accurate retrieval of balances, transactions, and holdings across multiple financial institutions.
• Develop and enhance automation tools, including AI-assisted systems, to reduce manual scraping effort and improve system adaptability.
• Troubleshoot and repair broken integrations caused by changing authentication flows, MFA systems, and interface updates.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product, security, infrastructure, and SRE to ensure reliability and accuracy of financial data services.
• Improve internal frameworks and tooling to accelerate onboarding of new institutions and enhance long-term scalability.
• Participate in monitoring, support, and on-call duties for critical data pipelines and integrations.

Requirements:

• Strong experience in backend development with advanced proficiency in Node.js and asynchronous programming.
• Proven experience building or maintaining data acquisition systems, including scraping frameworks and headless browser automation.
• Familiarity with financial connectivity systems such as Plaid-like APIs, brokerage linking platforms, or screen scraping solutions.
• Strong understanding of authentication mechanisms, session handling, cookies, rate limiting, and MFA challenges.
• Experience working with complex and structured financial data such as transactions, balances, holdings, and reconciliations.
• Comfort operating in environments where external systems change frequently and require rapid adaptation.
• Strong debugging skills with a proactive approach to investigating and resolving integration issues.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate across technical and non-technical teams.
• Nice to have: experience with AI-assisted extraction tools, ledger systems, or large-scale financial data platforms.

Benefits:

• Competitive compensation with base salary ranging from CA$151,200 to CA$189,000 plus equity.
• Comprehensive health, dental, and life insurance coverage.
• Generous time-off policy including 20 vacation days, 4 wellness days, and unlimited sick and mental health days.
• Long-term savings plan with employer matching contributions.
• Ability to work remotely within Canada with flexibility to work abroad for up to 90 days per year.
• Strong culture of learning, innovation, and collaboration with highly skilled engineering teams.
• Inclusive and supportive environment with employee resource groups and accessibility commitment.