Lead Software Developer, GFT

We’re looking for talented and passionate technologists to join our team.  With a developer mind-set you will work as part of an agile team to design and deliver high performing applications built on cloud platforms with streaming technologies. We believe in continuous growth and expanding your capabilities. Join our team today and have a big impact influencing the strength of our advanced insight and analytics. This team is involved in several project scopes, so there are a variety of projects to get involved in! 

What is the opportunity?

Global Functions Technology (GFT) helps RBC functions & businesses achieve business objectives through app development & technology support. We’re also the center of excellence for employee social collaboration & mobile apps, and also build apps that support managing the risk of the bank. We’re building a team that embraces innovation and enthusiasm to bring a fresh perspective. We’ve been on journeys to build out high performing, highly resilient technology platforms that can grow with the continuous demands from Group Risk, Human Resources, Chief Administrative Office & Audit, Capital Markets, P&CB and Wealth.  

We’re looking for talented and passionate technologists to join our team.  With a developer mind-set you will work as part of an agile team to deliver high performing applications built on cloud platforms with streaming technologies. We believe in continuous growth and expanding your capabilities. Join our team today and have a big impact influencing the strength of our advanced insight and analytics. This team is involved in several project scopes, so there are a variety of projects to get involved in! 

What will you do?

• Lead, Develop and support highly scalable, high performance components within an Agile development team

• Ensure high code quality through automated unit and functional testing

• Automate processes within the development pipeline; identify opportunities for efficiency gains and reducing time-to-market, and enabling continuous delivery

• Contribute in application design and develop code structures to promote reusability across many applications

• Be open-minded and look beyond your stack to solve complex problems

• Proactively seek out knowledge about new technologies and how they can be used to solve current and foreseeable challenges

• Communicate effectively with peers and distil technical details into human terms

What do you need to succeed?

Must Have:

• Minimum 10+ years of professional software development experience delivering highly scalable, high performance applications with core skillsets including Java, J2EE, Spring / REST / Microservices, Linux and SQL

• Experience developing secure server side services leveraging the following APIs: Spring, Spring Batch/Boot/Integration, RESTful Webservices and Apache Data Utilities (JSON, Avro, CSV/PSV, Parquet). 

• Experience in designing and building scalable, cloud-ready services following microservice architecture principles, lead and contribute during technical design discussions and requirement clarifications.

• Experience working with various caching technologies (Ignite/Redis etc.) and NoSQL/SQL databases

• Good knowledge on messaging/streaming technologies like MQ, Kafka etc.
  Hands-on experience in writing clean, readable/reusable java code with unit tests.

• Experience using DevOps, CD/CI tools- Jenkins, GitHub, Maven,  Automated Testing tools, or similar tools while collaborating with the software development team 

• Ability to closely work with business users to understand requirements and translate them into technical design ideas.

• Ability to independently handle module deliveries, multi-task effectively and provide timely updates

• Ability to manage and closely work with a 10+ member team including developers, business analysts and quality engineering.

Nice To Have:

• Experience in working with Big Data technologies (Hadoop, Spark/Scala etc.)

• Experience in containerizing applications (Azure/OpenShift/AWS)

• Experience with Agile software development

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, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable

• Leaders who support 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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Job Skills

Active Learning, Active Learning, Agile Methodology, Apache Hadoop, Application Integrations, Big Data Technologies, Business, Cloud Platform, Debugging, Design, Detail-Oriented, Enterprise Application Delivery, GitHub, Group Problem Solving, Innovation, Java, Java Enterprise Edition, Maven, Microservices Architecture, Microsoft Azure, NoSQL, Programming Languages, RESTful APIs, Scala (Programming Language), Software Code Quality {+ 4 more}

Additional Job Details

RBC CENTRE, 155 WELLINGTON ST W:TORONTOTORONTOCanada37.5Full timeTECHNOLOGY AND OPERATIONSRegularSalaried2024-08-222025-01-03

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