Senior Software Development Engineer (Backend)

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One of Canadas Most Trusted Investment Brands.

AtPicton Mahoney Asset Management (PICTON Investments)being alternative isnt just what we doits who we are.

Founded by industry pioneer David Picton weve spent 20 years challenging conventional wisdom and redefining the investing landscape. As one of Canadas most trusted investment brands we are proudly independentprivately run 100% employee-owned and deeply committed to delivering results for our clients.

Thinking Alternatively is in Our DNA.

With a team of203bold thinkersone-third dedicated solely to investment managementwe are specialists not generalists. Managing $16.1 billion for institutional and retail clients we navigate markets with conviction resilience and a forward-thinking approach.

Were more than investors were innovators. We challenge traditional investment mindsets constantly pushing the boundaries to achieve our mission: To bring greater certainty to investors.

Our success is built on four guiding principles:

• Treat investors money like our own.
• Redefine the way investors invest.
• Be humanalways approachable.
• Succeed together one investment at a time.

These arent just wordsthey define how we think how we invest and how we work.

Now were entering our next chapter. Were transforming our brand and reshaping the way the world invests. If you think alternatively embrace an entrepreneurial spirit and thrive in a dynamic bureaucracy-free environment join us and be part of whats next.

Thriving in Our Entrepreneurial Culture

AtPICTON Investments youll thrive in our creative and dynamic workplace where collaboration and support are at the core of everything we do. At our firm youll have the opportunity to take on significant responsibilities work in a flexible environment and tackle challenging projects from the outset. Our culture is designed for ambitious professionals who want to make an immediate impact while continuing to push boundaries and achieve our greater mission. Youll be empowered with a high level of responsibility trust and flexibility providing an exciting and creative space for you to help reshape how the world views alternative investments. With competitive total rewards performance-based bonuses and a clear path for career growth youll have everything you need to develop both now and over the longer term.

The Opportunity:

Were looking for a seasoned Backend Engineer who builds systems with intention-robust scalable and engineered for the long game. Youll work on cloud-native data-driven platforms that power analytics reporting and other core investment workflows.

At Picton Tech is a competitive advantage. This role gives you meaningful ownership influence on architecture and the chance to help shape how our systems drive performance across the business.

Youll have the opportunity to learn and lead

• Design develop and maintain scalable APIs microservices and backend services that power analytics insights and reporting.
• Collaborate with frontend data and product teams to build seamless workflows with reliability clarity and long-term maintainability.
• Partner with platform and data engineering teams to ensure smooth integration between applications warehouses lakehouses and analytical pipelines.
• Champion modern engineering practicesautomation CI/CD observability cloud deployment standards and operational excellence.
• Conduct thoughtful code reviews drive testing best practices and troubleshoot issues with rigor and care.
• Bring a fearless well-reasoned voice to architectural discussions and technology roadmap planning.
• Foster trust and alignment through clear communication and authentic collaboration.

What You Bring

• 7 years of experience in backend software development ideally within data-intensive or analytical domains.
• Strong experience designing and implementing APIs microservices and distributed systems.
• Hands-on development experience in .NET and/or .
• Familiarity with frontend frameworks such as React or for effective cross-team collaboration.
• Hands-on experience with cloud environmentspreferably Azurefor application hosting storage and data integration.
• Understanding of warehouse or Lakehouse architectures (Azure Synapse Databricks Snowflake) and how they support analytics and reporting.
• Strong grasp of design principles: modularity scalability SOLID clean architecture.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines automation and deployment tooling (Azure DevOps or similar).
• Ability to translate business requirements into thoughtful scalable technical solutions.
• A working style grounded in Pictons core valuesownership collaboration fearlessness authenticity and performance.

Nice to Have

• Knowledge of event-driven architectures (Event Grid Event Hubs Kafka).
• Experience with containerization and IaC: Docker Terraform Azure Container Apps.
• Understanding of identity and access management (OAuth2 Azure AD JWT).

Our Commitment to Employees

AtPICTON Investments we take pride in enhancing our employees experiences through a comprehensive suite of exceptional perks and programs. Our benefits include corporate fitness reimbursement and discounts VersaFi memberships (formerly Women in Capital Markets) Picton investment counseling and portfolio management services volunteer and charitable donation matching maternity and parental leave top-up recognition awards semi-annual performance bonuses a generous annual vacation entitlement (minimum of 15 days per year) training and development reimbursement extensive health and dental benefits a healthcare spending account and more.

These offerings are designed to support your career growth well-being and overall success. Join us and thrive in an environment that values and invests in you!

PICTON Investmentsis committed to providing an equitable and fair work environment for everyone and all hiring and other personnel actions will be taken without regard to race colour creed religion sex disability gender identity gender expression family status age language or national origin. If you require an accommodation at any point in time throughout the application and hiring process please contact Human Resources at or at.

PICTON Investmentsdoes not accept unsolicited resumes emails calls or any other form of communication from third-party recruitment agencies. Any unsolicited outreach including commercial electronic messages will neither be acknowledged nor considered.

Required Experience:

Senior IC