Hybrid Senior Software Developer

at Telesat

• Job title: Senior Software Developer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Distributed Systems, Java, Microservices, Python
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Ottawa, Canada

About the role

• Senior Software Developer designing and developing Java-based services for Telesat's mission-critical platform. Collaborating on architecture and operational standards in a hybrid work environment.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain Java-based services within a distributed, event-driven architecture.
• Own service behavior end to end: APIs, workflows, persistence, failure handling, and operational characteristics.
• Ensure implementations align with platform architecture patterns while remaining pragmatic and operable.
• Partner with Software Architects to translate architectural patterns into concrete, implementable designs.
• Act as a technical point of contact for your services, supporting design discussions, reviews, and cross-team alignment.
• Build services that are production-ready by design, including health checks, graceful degradation, and recovery behavior.
• Collaborate with SRE/Operations to ensure operational requirements are addressed before production release.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in software development for complex, distributed systems.
• Strong hands-on experience with Matlab, Java, Python and modern backend development practices.
• Proven experience building and operating highly available, fault-tolerant services in production.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems concepts: microservices, event-driven architectures, API gateways, messaging systems.
• Experience defining and implementing non-functional requirements (availability, resiliency, scalability, security).
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively across engineering, architecture, and operations.

Benefits

• The successful candidate must be able to work in Canada and obtain a Reliability Clearance
• We are committed to providing the best candidate experience possible including any required accommodations at every stage of our interview process.