Role description
Senior Full Stack Developer
Lead II - Software Engineering
Who We Are:
Born digital, UST transforms lives through the power of technology. We walk alongside our clients and partners, embedding innovation and agility into everything they do. We help them create transformative experiences and human-centered solutions for a better world.
UST is a mission-driven group of 29,000+ practical problem solvers and creative thinkers in more than 30 countries. Our entrepreneurial teams are empowered to innovate, act nimbly, and create a lasting and sustainable impact for our clients, their customers, and the communities in which we live.
With us, you’ll create a boundless impact that transforms your career—and the lives of people across the world.
Visit us at UST.com.
You Are:
UST is searching for a Senior Full Stack Developer who thrives in modern, AI-accelerated engineering environments and wants to build highly scalable systems used by millions. This role blends hands-on backend engineering, cloud-native architecture, secure development practices, and AI-assisted delivery, with opportunities to contribute to both platform stability and future backend modernization.
The opportunity:
- Applying secure-coding best practices to existing services, refactoring risky patterns, and improving logging, observability, and incident readiness.
- Using modern DevOps tooling such as GitHub, CI/CD, containerization, and cloud platforms to automate deployments and reduce manual, repetitive work.
- Collaborating with security SMEs to understand threat models, prioritize remediation work, and translate security findings into clean, maintainable code.
- Designing and building new backend capabilities and APIs that extend and modernize the platform.
- Participating in design discussions, contributing to technical decisions, and helping shape the next generation of backend services.
- Pair-programming and doing code reviews with other senior engineers to share knowledge, improve quality, and continuously raise the engineering bar.
- Leveraging AI-assisted development tools to accelerate delivery, improve engineering efficiency, and support code quality across the development lifecycle.
- Working closely with cross-functional partners across engineering, product, and business teams to deliver scalable, production-ready solutions.
This position description identifies the responsibilities and tasks typically associated with the performance of the position. Other relevant essential functions may be required.
What you need:
- Total experience: 5 years+
- Strong backend expertise with Java or Node.js.
- Experience building RESTful APIs and working with Open API specifications.
- Intermediate to advanced experience with Angular (React is a plus).
- 2+ years of hands-on experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or OpenShift.
- Strong working knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes.
- Expert-level Git skills, including branching, merging, and code reviews.
- Experience translating Figma designs into production-ready UI.
- Hands-on experience with Splunk, Dynatrace, or similar monitoring tools.
- Proven experience with GitHub Actions and CI/CD pipeline design.
- Strong focus on automated unit, functional, and performance testing.
- Experience integrating intelligent agents into CI/CD pipelines to automate reviews, testing, or deployments.
- Familiarity with application security practices and secure coding standards.
- Experience with vulnerability scanning and remediation tools.
- Exposure to integrating security gates within CI/CD pipelines (shift-left security / DevSecOps).
Compensation can differ depending on factors including but not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, education, and level of experience. UST provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired in various U.S. markets as set forth below.
Role Location: Hybrid-Ontario
Compensation Range: $104,000-$130,000
Benefits
Full-time, regular employees accrue a minimum of 10 days of paid vacation per year, receive 6 days of paid sick leave each year (pro-rated for new hires throughout the year), paid holidays, and are eligible for paid bereavement leave and jury duty. They and their dependents residing in Canada are eligible for Supplemental Healthcare coverage, as well as Company-paid Employee Only basic life insurance and accidental death and dismemberment coverage.
Full-time temporary employees receive 6 days of paid sick leave each year (pro-rated for new hires throughout the year). They and their dependents residing in Canada are eligible for Supplemental Healthcare coverage, as well as Company-paid Employee Only basic life insurance and accidental death and dismemberment coverage.
Part-time regular and temporary employees receive 6 days of paid sick leave each year (pro-rated for new hires throughout the year).
All Canadian employees who work in a province, territory or locality with more generous paid sick leave benefits than specified here will receive the benefit of those sick leave laws.
What we believe:
We proudly embrace the values that have shaped UST since day one. We build our culture of Humility, Humanity, and Integrity. These values inspire us to nurture a people-first, human centric culture that fosters diversity, prioritizes sustainable solutions, and keeps our people and clients at the forefront of all decisions.
Humility:
We will listen, learn, be empathetic and help selflessly in our interactions with everyone.
Humanity:
Through business, we will better the lives of those less fortunate than ourselves.
Integrity:
We honor our commitments and act with responsibility in all our relationships.
An Equal Opportunity Workplace, Free of Discrimination and Harassment
At UST, we strive to provide a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. We are an equal opportunity employer and employment decisions are based on merit and business needs. Our Human Rights Policy further illustrates our stand on this. We are committed to following fair employment practices that provide equal opportunities to all employees. We do not discriminate or allow harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, disability, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, genetic information, military status, or any other legally protected status. At UST, we value diversity and believe that a diverse workplace builds a competitive advantage.
Un lieu de travail à égalité des chances, sans Discrimination et harcèlement
Chez UST, nous nous efforçons de fournir un environnement de travail exempt de discrimination et harcèlement. Nous sommes un employeur garantissant l'égalité des chances et des décisions en matière d'emploi sont basés sur le mérite et les besoins de l'entreprise. Notre politique en matière de droits de l'homme illustre notre position à ce sujet. Nous nous engageons à respecter un emploi équitable des pratiques qui offrent des chances égales à tous les employés. Nous ne faisons pas discriminer ou permettre le harcèlement sur la base de la race, de la couleur, de la religion, du handicap, genre, origine nationale, orientation sexuelle, identité de genre, expression de genre, âge, informations génétiques, statut militaire ou tout autre statut légalement protégé. Chez UST, nous valorisons la diversité et pensons qu'un lieu de travail diversifié crée un avantage compétitif.
UST reserves the right to periodically redefine your roles and responsibilities based on the requirements of the organization and/or your performance.
At UST, we use AI technology in our hiring process to verify candidate identity and ensure assessment integrity. This includes confirming that candidates complete interviews and assessments independently, without unauthorized assistance. By applying, you consent to this process. If you require accommodations, please contact [email protected] .
Accommodation
Your accessibility is important to us. Please let us know if you’d like accommodations (including accessible meeting rooms, captioning for virtual interviews, etc.) to help us remove barriers so that you can participate throughout the interview process. If you require accommodations at any point during the recruitment process, please let a member of our recruiting team know.
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Skills
fullstack,java,angular,docker,
Benefits
Compensation range: $104,000.00 to $130,000.00 per year
About UST
UST is a global digital transformation solutions provider. For more than 20 years, UST has worked side by side with the world’s best companies to make a real impact through transformation. Powered by technology, inspired by people and led by purpose, UST partners with their clients from design to operation. With deep domain expertise and a future-proof philosophy, UST embeds innovation and agility into their clients’ organizations. With over 30,000 employees in 30 countries, UST builds for boundless impact—touching billions of lives in the process.
