Lead Software Developer

What is the opportunity?

The Cash Management Technology Canada (CMTC) mandate is to build the next-generation technologies that change how commercial companies interact with financial information and one another. Our products need to handle information and financial transactions at massive scale, and extend well beyond traditional banking.

The RBC CMTC team offers the opportunity to leverage our Virtual Account Management/Liquidity Management System (VAM/LMS) program to develop innovative solutions to our most challenging problems for RBC’s commercial customers. We hire people with a broad set of technical skills who are ready to take on tough challenges and make an impact to millions of Canadians and businesses every day.

As a lead developer on the team, you will work with developers to develop and maintain services for integration with both external vendor application and internal RBC systems. We are looking for top notch software engineers who are great team players and obsessive about the quality of their code and delivered service. This role requires someone who can roll up their sleeves while developing their future career opportunities.

What will you do?

• Work within an Agile product team comprised of technical, product, business team members and external vendor to deliver exceptional products
• Work closely with RBC downstream teams and external vendor and come up with integration design
• Collaborate with other developers on the team to model and design API interfaces.
• Guide, coach, and mentor team to drive optimal performance from team members
• Establish and maintain strong relationships with product and engineering leads and provide point of escalation and resolution production support
• Collaborate with SRE to drive resiliency and operational excellence into VAM/LMS platform.
• Develop and support highly scalable, high performance APIs within an Agile development team
• Ensure high code quality through automated unit and functional testing
• You will actively seek out knowledge about new technologies and how they can be used to solve current and foreseeable challenges
• Excellent communication including the ability to distill technical details into human terms

What do you need to succeed?

• 5+ years experience with Java 8+ and Spring Framework (Spring Boot) and/or nodeJS
• 5+ years experience developing distributed cloud applications (Azure, Openshift, Docker)
• Hands on experience designing, developing, testing and troubleshooting RESTful API and interface specifications (Swagger, RAML, SOAP)
• Experience working with DevOps pipelines (Git, Maven, Jenkins), continuous integration/delivery, automated testing (unit, functional, performance)
• Experience working with security gateways and protocols (JWT, Oauth2.0, SSL Certificates)
• Experience working within professional software engineering practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source code management, build processes and testing
• Experience with code merging and branching methodologies using Git and code release process.
• Leverage Open Source technology and contribute to open source where possible
• Experience supporting production-level software (Splunk, Dynatrace).
• Solid experience with abstraction and applying it to learning new languages
• Ability to simplify complex problems and communicate them in plain language

Nice-to-have:

• 3+ years experience with JavaScript
• Working knowledge of web-based application architectures and frameworks (including Angular or React) and the way it integrates with services.
• Object Oriented coding practices, including strong design patterns knowledge, refactoring, clean code.
• Experience working with Kafka, Azure Service Buse, MySQL, Non-relational databases, Caching and
• Experience in BDD and TDD methodologies
• Working experience in one or more of:
  • algorithm design and optimization
  • large-scale systems
  • parallel or distributed systems
  • RDBMS and/or modern scale-out repositories (MySQL, MongoDB, Redis)
• Experience building message driven architectures (Kafka)
• Micro-service design and implementation (load balancing, discovery, resiliency)

What’s in it for you? 

We thrive on the challenge to be our best, progressive thinking to keep growing, and working together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.

• A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, fair compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable
• Leaders who help your development through coaching and managing opportunities
• Ability to make a difference and lasting impact
• Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team
• A world-class training program in financial services
• Flexible work/life balance options
• Opportunities to do challenging work

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Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above

Inclusion and Equal Opportunity Employment

At RBC, we believe an inclusive workplace that has diverse perspectives is core to our continued growth as one of the largest and most successful banks in the world. Maintaining a workplace where our employees feel supported to perform at their best, effectively collaborate, drive innovation, and grow professionally helps to bring our Purpose to life and create value for our clients and communities. RBC strives to deliver this through policies and programs intended to foster a workplace based on respect, belonging and opportunity for all.