Verafin– Software Developer Specialist (Disaster Recovery …, St. John's

The Role We’relooking for a Software Developer Specialist tojoin our Disaster Recovery Governance Team, reporting to the Director - Software Development. In this role,you’llhelp shape how we define, implement, and continuously improve the resilience of our systems and platforms across the organization.

You'llfit right in if you enjoy solving complex technical challenges, working across teams and systems, and building solutions that hold up when it matters most!

What You’ll Do

Design and implement disaster recovery solutions across services and platforms, ensuring systems meet defined recovery and resiliency standards.

Develop and evolve disaster recovery governance frameworks that establish the standards, processes, and capabilities needed to build a scalable enterprise disaster recovery platform.

Collaborate with engineering, infrastructure, and operations teams to understand system dependencies and develop effective failover strategies across environments.

Build andmaintain automation and tooling to support recovery testing, failover execution, and environment readiness.

Participate in disaster recovery tests and simulations, contributing to execution, validation, and follow-through on identified improvements.

Document recovery procedures, system dependencies, and test outcomes to support operational readiness and audit requirements.

What You’ll Bring

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

4+years experiencedesigning, building, and supporting distributed systems, with a strong understanding of failure modes, system dependencies, and resiliency patterns (e.g., retries, graceful degradation, recovery-ready design).

Solid grounding in disaster recovery principles, including failover strategies, recovery planning, and measurable recoveryobjectives(RTO/RPO), with experience supporting orparticipatingin regular DR testing.

Hands-on experience in AWS cloud environments, with familiarity across infrastructure, application layers, and data processing systems.

Experience building or contributing to automation and tooling that supports reliability, testing, or operational workflows (e.g., readiness checks, repeatable recovery tests, failover/rollback execution).

Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear documentation, runbooks, and shared standards across teams.

Familiarity with monitoring, alerting, and operational readiness practices, including backup and data protection concepts, restore validation, and infrastructure-as-code for repeatable environments.

Nice to Have

Experience supporting disaster recovery tests andresilience“game day” exercises (including controlled fault-injection experiments).

Familiarity with high-availability architectures across multiple environments or regions, ideally in regulated, reliability-focused, or globally distributed environments.

Experience developing in Java or Python is considered an asset.

This position willbe located in St. John’s or Toronto

and offers the opportunity for a hybrid work environment

at least 3 days a week in-office,

subject to change, providing flexibility and accessibility for qualified candidates.

Come as You Are Nasdaq is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds and identities.

We are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where diverse perspectives, experiences, and identities are valued and celebrated.

We ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided with reasonable accommodation throughout the hiring process.

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