Software Developer (12 month Contract)

ABOUT IDENTOS

IDENTOS is a proudly Canadian company on a mission to make digital trust the norm — not the exception. Founded in Toronto in 2014, we build enterprise-grade identity, authentication, consent management, and fine-grained authorization solutions that help enterprises across all verticals, including healthcare providers and governments, ensure secure, auditable, and compliant environments, as well as seamless access to personal records and digital services.

As a design-led product and services company, we believe a solution is incomplete until it considers the end user. Working here puts you in touch with a growing, people-first and purpose-led team – collectively driven by delivering innovative solutions that protect people’s privacy without compromising on usability. A diversity of perspectives and knowledge shapes how we collaborate across multiple disciplines, including software developers, design, sales, product, and IT.

OUR CORE VALUES

These five values aren’t words on a wall — they shape every decision we make and every person we hire.

🤝 Human First → People are #1. Respect, empathy, and compassion are core to everything we do.

💙 Customer Obsessed → We love our customers and strive for their success.

📚 Lifelong Learners → We are committed to improving, growing, evolving, and always being our best.

🌍 Tech for Good → Let’s solve big problems for the betterment of society.

👥 End Users Matter → Design, build, and serve our customers with their end customers always in mind.

THE OPPORTUNITY

IDENTOS is hiring a Software Developer (12 month contract) in the Product & Delivery team to cover a maternity leave for one year.

As a Software Developer, you will own features from design through delivery on our product roadmap, building software that is reliable, secure and maintainable. You will contribute to solutions that power secure, privacy-first identity, authorization and consent workflows. In this position, strong collaboration and clear communication are essential as you partner across teams in a fully remote work environment.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Design, build and deliver features end to end, from backlog refinement through release
• Take on medium-sized, increasingly complex assignments and adjust as priorities shift
• Design for edge cases and failure modes, with meaningful logging and error handling
• Partner with product managers, designers and QA to refine requirements and turn them into working software
• Write and maintain automated tests and choose testing approaches that fit the risk
• Apply secure, maintainable coding practices and weigh scalability, performance and maintainability in your decisions
• Contribute to documentation, knowledge sharing, and improvements to our processes and tooling
• Share progress and blockers early, and use AI-assisted development responsibly
• Lead by example and support other developers through pairing and guidance

WHAT YOU BRING

Must-Have

• 3+ years of professional experience in a production environment
• 2+ years of working experience and proficiency in Java/Spring/Hibernate or React/TypeScript, with working familiarity with the other
• Experience delivering features end to end in production
• Experience using AI-assisted software development tools
• Solid object-oriented design and experience documenting technical design with OpenAPI/Swagger (UML a plus)
• Experience with relational databases, SQL and data modeling
• Experience writing automated tests (unit and integration) and working with QA processes
• Experience with Jira, Git (branching strategies and resolving merge conflicts) and CI/CD practices
• Experience in Agile and scrum methods, including sprint planning and estimation
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent combination of education and experience)
• Strong problem solving skills and experience debugging and resolving non-trivial technical problems
• Learns new technologies, tools and frameworks quickly
• Works independently and communicates proactively in a distributed team

Nice to Have

• Experience with Spring Security, OAuth/OIDC and JWT
• Knowledge of identity and authorization standards: OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, FIDO2, UMA 2.0
• Experience with MySQL, Postgres
• Familiarity with containers and deployment pipelines
• Experience mentoring junior developers or students
• Experience with healthcare interoperability (FHIR, HL7) or government digital services
• Experience at a SaaS or public-sector product company

OUR TECH STACK

Languages/Frameworks: Java/Spring, React/TypeScript, Python/Robot · Infrastructure: MySQL, Postgres, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform · Tooling: Claude, Jira, Confluence, GitLab, Jenkins, SonarQube, Google Suite, Figma

WHY IDENTOS?

“Humans-First” is one of our core principles — and we mean it. We want you to do the best work of your career here, supported by a team that genuinely cares.

🌍 Meaningful Mission: Help Canadians securely access health records and government services.

🏡 Flexible Work: Remote-first / Optional Hybrid.

🏆 Teammate of the Month: $100 gift card for a nominated team member, every month.

🎉 Culture Team: Help shape how we work and celebrate together.

🚀 Growth & Learning: A fast-growing scale-up with mentorship culture and access to training.

AI IN OUR HIRING PROCESS

IDENTOS may use artificial intelligence (AI) enabled tools to support administrative aspects of the recruitment process, such as interview note-taking.

DIVERSITY, EQUITY, INCLUSION & ACCESSIBILITY

We build technology that serves everyone — so we need a team that reflects everyone! IDENTOS supports and promotes a workplace culture of respect, equity, diversity and inclusion. IDENTOS is committed to providing accommodations for people with disabilities through the interview process and while employed. If you require accommodation, please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.