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# Software Developer, NestJS, Spring, Claude Code at RAVL

- **Company:** RAVL
- **Location:** Toronto, Canada
- **Employment:** contract
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-09-25
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-13
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/ravl_io/41780fac-bbb3-4591-893f-1b26d0b71bab

## Job description

RAVL is a Canadian, AI-native transformation consulting firm working with financial services clients across advisory, engineering, cloud, data, AI, and delivery. Our consultants work as trusted outsiders inside client organizations, making progress visible from the day they start.

## Role Summary

We’re looking for a Developer to join RAVL and work as part of a client delivery team building and evolving modern applications and services. You’ll bring strong software engineering fundamentals alongside practical experience using AI-assisted development tools.

This role is a strong fit for a developer who can contribute hands-on, work effectively within an established technology environment, and use modern development practices and tooling to deliver high-quality software.

What does success look like in this role?

- Design, build, test, and maintain reliable, production-quality applications and services.
- Contribute hands-on to development using NestJS and/or Spring.
- Work effectively within event-driven architectures and integrate with platforms such as Kafka.
- Use AI-assisted development tools as part of your day-to-day engineering workflow.
- Write clean, maintainable, well-tested code and contribute to engineering standards and practices.
- Collaborate with engineers, architects, product partners, and other stakeholders to turn requirements into working software.
- Identify technical issues and trade-offs early and contribute practical solutions.
- Participate in code reviews, testing, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement across the development lifecycle.

Sounds great, do my skills fit?

The following are core requirements for this role:

- Hands-on software development experience with at least one of the following:
- NestJS
- Spring / Spring Boot
- Practical experience using at least one of the following AI coding tools:
- GitHub Copilot
- Claude Code
- Strong software engineering fundamentals, including application design, testing, debugging, version control, and maintainable coding practices.
- Experience working collaboratively within a software engineering or product delivery team.
- Ability to understand existing systems and codebases and become productive within them.

Mindset Traits

Successful RAVL consultants:

- Take ownership of problems rather than waiting for detailed instructions.
- Balance technical quality with the practical needs of the client and delivery team.
- Create clarity when requirements or technical direction are ambiguous.
- Communicate technical decisions clearly and raise risks early.
- Use AI development tools thoughtfully to improve productivity without compromising engineering quality.
- Share what they know and help the engineers around them get stronger.
- Treat working software and client outcomes as the measure of success.

Why join RAVL?

- Flexible, client-aligned work model — autonomy with accountability, adapting to client delivery needs
- Variable bonus & RRSP contributions tied to performance and delivery impact.
- 4 weeks paid time off (plus public holidays)
- Paid professional development days and continuous learning opportunities
- Comprehensive health & dental coverage, including mental health support
- Commitment to lifelong learning — continuous improvement through training, mentorship, and certification

## Compensation & hiring process

We are recruiting for a future opportunity. The salary range for this role is $120,000–$150,000 CAD, reflecting expected base pay. Total compensation may also include additional pay such as bonuses or incentives, depending on the position, and final offers are based on experience, skills, and qualifications. As part of our hiring process we may use technology, including AI-based tools, to help summarize and assess applications; these tools assist our team and do not replace human review or decision-making.

## Equal Opportunity & Accessibility

RAVL is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and accessible workplace. We welcome applications from all qualified individuals and provide accommodations throughout the hiring process upon request.

## About RAVL

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: RAVL is a boutique advisory and engineering firm that helps North American financial services institutions build better technology through full-stack product development, AI modernization, cloud platform engineering, and DevSecOps.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Partnership; venture-backed with a 2025 round led by MML Capital Partners)
- **Headquarters**: Toronto, Ontario, Canada (East York; 6 Annesley Avenue, M4G 2T6), with a presence in the United States
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Founded by four partners; leadership includes Rick Davidson (Chief Executive Officer), Dominic Wallace (Chief Technology Officer), Sean Quinn (Chairman), and Ryan Kehl (Partner)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: IT Services and IT Consulting; specialized in Financial Services technology (FSI)
- **Target customers**: Enterprise financial services institutions in North America (banks, insurers, capital markets firms), plus organizations undertaking legacy modernization, cloud transformation, and AI adoption
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "To be a true partner to our clients by building better technology that drives meaningful, long-lasting business outcomes." (Byline: "RAVL Builds. Better.")

## Products & Services
RAVL operates across three core delivery models plus an AI-focused methodology:

- **Advise (Strategize & Solution)**: Architecture design, business/technology capability mapping, business casing, cost optimization, customer journey mapping, governance, operating models, process improvement, technical assessments/root-cause analysis, technology selection, and technology strategy & roadmaps.
- **Build (Engineer & Deliver)**: Solutions architecture, cloud engineering, DevSecOps, platform engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, application development, AI & Machine Learning, and Infrastructure as Code.
- **BuildX (Sustain. Upskill. Empower.)**: Outcome-based delivery where clients can hire a subset of the RAVL team to extend the engagement. Combines cloud/platform engineering, software engineering, mentorship, and hands-on learning journeys.
- **AI / Leap Left (AI-first SDLC)**: RAVL's approach to AI-first software development lifecycle — aligning people, workflows, governance, and engineering systems to accelerate delivery while managing everything surrounding code creation.

Technical specialties include: full-stack digital product development, AI systems modernization (legacy-to-modern platform transformation), microservices & APIs, DevSecOps & developer experience, cloud platforms & tooling, and site reliability engineering.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding — venture round announced 2025-01-24, with 1 investor, led by MML Capital Partners; specific amount not publicly disclosed
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: MML Capital Partners (lead investor)
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Headcount grew ~45.9% YoY (+34 employees, from ~54 to 88)
  - Monthly headcount growth at time of data: +3.8%
  - LinkedIn followers grew +32.9% yearly, to ~4,140
  - 22 active job postings (quarterly job posting trend: +57.1%)
  - Acquired New Helio, expanding capabilities
  - Workforce distributed across Canada (86) and the United States (2), with deep hiring from top consultancies and financial institutions (CGI, Capco, TD, Scotiabank, McKinsey & Company, Slalom)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Deep FSI domain fluency**: Decades of combined experience from North America's leading financial services institutions and top global consulting/engineering firms (McKinsey, Capco, TD, Scotiabank, etc.)
- **"Build. Better." execution bias**: Strategy work that is designed for real-world execution rather than slide-deck deliverables
- **End-to-end ownership**: Covers everything from advisory/strategy through build, cloud/platform engineering, DevSecOps, SRE, and AI modernization — not just code delivery
- **BuildX talent model**: A differentiated engagement model where clients can hire the team, enabling continuity and knowledge transfer rather than the traditional consultancy "hand-off"
- **Leap Left AI-first SDLC methodology**: A proprietary approach to AI-first software delivery that addresses the non-coding constraints (people, workflows, governance) around modern engineering
- **High employee satisfaction**: 4.8/5.0 employer rating (15 reviews) with culture rated 4.9 and career development rated 4.8 — a differentiator when attracting technologists

## Strategic Focus
- Scaling its AI-powered modernization and Leap Left methodology across financial services clients
- Continuing to build national (Canadian) and US presence through strategic hiring — particularly in technical roles (50 of ~88 employees are technical) and senior consulting talent
- Growing through selective acquisitions (e.g., New Helio) to expand advisory/engineering capacity
- Strengthening the BuildX model to deepen long-term client partnerships and talent development
- Building a "Talent Pool" pipeline for future hires, indicating proactive workforce planning around continued growth

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Rated 4.8/5.0 overall on employer review platforms — with Culture at 4.9, Career Development at 4.8, Work-Life Balance at 4.6, and Compensation at 4.6
- **Work model**: Hybrid workspace (combination of remote and on-site work) at the Toronto HQ
- **Growth environment**: 45.9% YoY headcount growth, 22 open positions, and heavy investment in mentorship and hands-on learning journeys (BuildX)
- **Engineering-led**: Technical staff make up ~46% of the workforce — engineers are core to the business, not an adjunct
- **Compensation benchmarks** (publicly listed salaries): Associate Engineer ~CAD 54,691/year; Consultant ~CAD 120,749/year; Principal Consultant ~CAD 223,802/year
- **Notable perk**: AI tools are used to support parts of the hiring process (resume review, response analysis), yet final decisions are human-driven — reflecting their AI-first but human-judgment approach
- **Impact**: Opportunity to work on mission-critical modernization and AI transformation projects for North America's leading financial institutions

## Sources
1. [ravl.io](https://www.ravl.io/)
2. [jobs.lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/ravl_io)
3. [ca.linkedin.com](https://ca.linkedin.com/company/ravl-io)
4. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/ravl)
5. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/ravl)

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