Title:  Senior UI Developer

Requisition ID: 247408

Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.

The Team

Global Banking and Markets Engineering (GBME) is the fast-moving, award-winning technology engine that powers Scotiabank’s Corporate, Investment Banking and Capital Markets businesses.

The Role

GBME is searching for Senior UI Developers who are continuous learners and are eager to boost capabilities of capital markets products and analytics platforms. The role focuses on building reusable, scalable, robust components and front-end libraries for GBME applications.

The successful candidate will have a strong technical and engineering mindset.  You will work closely with business teams and cross functional engineering leaders to develop and implement market leading solutions for the various projects within GBME.

About the Job 

Do you thrive when faced with challenges? Like using fresh technologies to solve problems? Looking to work in various projects across the organization, collaborating with great teams and inspiring leaders? Then this is the right team for you!  In this exciting role, you’ll apply your analytical skills to design and develop applications that deliver excellence, effectiveness, and value to our business partners and customers.

In partnership with peer engineers, business partners, and the various GBME teams, you will:

• Translating designs and wireframes into high quality code
• Partner with Architecture on the design and integration
• Working closely with architect and other developers and product owner on software architecture, design, dependencies and codes maintainability
• Optimizing components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers
• Design test sets and automate where possible, including functional and non functional testing, regression testing as well as performance testing
• Support the solution in production (as needed)
• Improve the end user experience by finding scalable solutions and addressing complex ad hoc queries.
• Effectively communicate with technical and non-technical audiences
• Able to work with and refactor legacy code (as needed).
• Coach and train end users (as needed). 
• Participate and run SCRUM Meetings (as needed).

Technical Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience with React.js and its core principles and React ecosystem JSX of react components life cycle.
• 3+ years of experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux) and data structure libraries (e.g. Immutable.js)
• 3+ years of experience and Strong proficiency in JavaScript Fundamentals, HTML5, CSS3, SCSS, and newer specifications of EcmaScript (ES6+), including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model
• 2+ years of experience (1 or 2 recent projects) on front end optimization techniques such as Lazy Loading, code splitting and memorization to improve front end performance, Asynchronous Module Definition, Callback and Promises, Closures, Image Compression
• 2+ year experience and good knowledge of NodeJS (Yarn) to NPM registry libraries/packages.
• Fast learner to grasp latest React technologies

Nice to Have Qualifications

• Experience with Nx workspace or similar monorepo tools (Turborepo, Lerna), including understanding of build optimization, caching strategies, and workspace library management
• Strong TypeScript experience including advanced types, generics, and type inference. Experience with Zod or similar schema validation libraries for runtime type safety
• Experience with Redux Toolkit (RTK) including RTK Query or TanStack Query for server state management. Understanding of normalized state patterns and efficient re-render optimization
• Experience with Material-UI (MUI v5/v6) or Ant Design, including theming, customization, and building reusable component abstractions. Experience with CSS-in-JS solutions (Emotion, Styled Components)
• Experience with React Hook Form for complex form validation and management, including integration with schema validation (Zod) and controlled/uncontrolled component patterns
• Experience with enterprise data grid solutions (AG Grid, TanStack Table, or similar) for handling large datasets, including virtualization, custom cell renderers, and advanced filtering/sorting

What's in it for you?

• Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Allyship - We strive to create an inclusive culture where every employee is empowered to reach their fullest potential, respected for who they are, and are embraced through bias-free practices and inclusive values across Scotiabank. We embrace diversity and provide opportunities for all employee to learn, grow & participate through our various Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) that span across diverse gender identities, ethnicity, race, age, ability & veterans. 
• Accessibility and Workplace Accommodations - We value the unique skills and experiences everyone brings to the Bank and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. Scotiabank continues to locate, remove, and prevent barriers so that we can build a diverse and inclusive environment while meeting accessibility requirements. 
• Upskilling through online courses, cross-functional development opportunities, and tuition assistance.   
• Competitive Rewards program including bonus, flexible vacation, personal, sick days and benefits will start on day one.
• Community Engagement - no matter where you choose to work from; we offer opportunities for community engagement & belonging with our various programs such as hackathons, contests, cooking with friends, Humans of Digital and much more! 

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Location(s):  Canada : Ontario : Toronto 

Scotiabank is a leading bank in the Americas. Guided by our purpose: "for every future", we help our customers, their families and their communities achieve success through a broad range of advice, products and services, including personal and commercial banking, wealth management and private banking, corporate and investment banking, and capital markets.  

At Scotiabank, we value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to the Bank, and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. If you require accommodation (including, but not limited to, an accessible interview site, alternate format documents, ASL Interpreter, or Assistive Technology) during the recruitment and selection process, please let our Recruitment team know. If you require technical assistance, please click here. Candidates must apply directly online to be considered for this role. We thank all applicants for their interest in a career at Scotiabank; however, only those candidates who are selected for an interview will be contacted.