Senior Backend Developer

What is the opportunity?

As a Senior Backend Developer, you’ll work as part of a small, autonomous, agile team to deliver both internal and external applications. We are looking for top notch software engineers who are great team players and obsessive about the quality of their code and delivered service.   You’ll have the opportunity to grow and expand your capabilities within the Digital development community as learning and knowledge sharing will be second nature while applying your technical know-how to ensure that RBC Digital is on the leading edge of development practices.

What will you do?

• Create new services and customer-facing applications using the latest technologies which will shape the future of banking for RBC

• Write highly scalable, high performance, maintainable and reusable services

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

• Work within an agile product team comprised of technical, product and business team members, collaborating with everyone to deliver exceptional products.

• Be responsible for your team health and work culture. Provide support and coaching for members of your team.

• Champion a diverse and inclusive team culture

What you need to succeed

Must have

• 4+ years of experience writing code in a backend (Java 11+) development language

• Experience writing automated testing (unit, functional, performance) and the related tooling – JUnit, Wiremock, Mockito, etc.

• 2+ years of experience developing distributed cloud applications (Pivotal Cloud Foundry, OpenShift, Docker, Azure)

• Experience working with RESTful APIs and interface specifications (Swagger/OpenAPI).

• B.S. degree in Computer Science or related technical field (e.g. EE, physics or mathematics), or equivalent practical experience

Nice to have

• Experience working in a continuous integration/delivery setting (DevOps) - we go to production every day.

• Experience working within coding standards, code reviews and source code management.

• Experience supporting production-level software and using monitoring tools (Splunk, Dynatrace).

• Excellent communication, including the ability to simplify technical details into human terms, and interact with non-technical parties such as product owners and business analysts.

• Working knowledge of software design best practices, including design patterns.

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

Application Development, Application Integrations, Application Maintenance, Detail-Oriented, Enterprise Application Delivery, Express.js, GraphQL (Query Language), Group Problem Solving, Node.js, Programming Languages, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), System Applications

Additional Job Details

RBC WATERPARK PLACE, 88 QUEENS QUAY W:TORONTOTORONTOCanada37.5Full timeTECHNOLOGY AND OPERATIONSRegularSalaried2024-10-222025-01-14

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