AppOps, Senior Specialist (Java/SRE)

Location: Toronto, Canada; flexible hybrid work model

Hiring range: CAD 105,000–135,000 annually, plus eligibility for a short-term incentive plan.

Company

hirify.global provides secure digital payments, identity verification, and fraud protection for Canada’s financial ecosystem.

What you will do

• Maintain high availability and stability across complex multi-datacenter payment environments, bridging infrastructure and application layers.
• Support and troubleshoot large-scale Java/JEE applications, microservices, APIs, containers, databases, Linux servers, and messaging platforms.
• Design, instrument, and tune Dynatrace and Splunk monitoring, dashboards, health rules, and alerts.
• Investigate incidents, logs, performance bottlenecks, network connectivity, and root causes to reduce service and client impact.
• Identify automation and self-remediation opportunities, improve application availability, and maintain technical documentation and performance reports.
• Provide rotating-shift coverage for critical applications on a 24x7 basis.

Requirements

• University degree in Computer Science Engineering or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Eligibility to work for hirify.global Corp. in Canada in a full-time capacity.
• 3+ years of Java software development or maintenance experience, preferably in payment systems or banking, including testing and solution design.
• Experience in application support, application monitoring, dashboard instrumentation, alert tuning, and reliability improvement; Dynatrace or similar observability tools preferred.
• Core Java, object-oriented programming, Java debugging, APIs, enterprise integration patterns, and open-source technologies such as Spring and Apache.
• Experience with network troubleshooting, infrastructure tuning, high-throughput low-latency systems, and high-performance service-oriented architectures.
• Strong SRE background, ITIL service management knowledge, basic CI/CD knowledge, and understanding of databases, JSON, XML, and data transformation.
• Willingness to work rotating shifts and support applications 24x7.
• Strong communication, documentation, teamwork, prioritization, organization, customer handling, and adaptability skills; participation in agile software delivery.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible hybrid work model with a focus on work-life balance.
• Generous vacation and wellness days, comprehensive employer-paid benefits, and an employer-funded RRSP program.
• Free confidential 24/7 employee and family assistance program.
• Pregnancy and parental leave top-up and charitable donation matching through United Way.
• Inclusive, collaborative, purpose-driven environment focused on digital finance and innovation.
• Pre-employment background checks may include Canadian criminal, credit, identity, employment, education, and social media checks.