Senior Engineer - Payments Platform RTB

RBC Clear reimagines Cash Management, leveraging innovative, digital first technology. Created in collaboration with corporate treasurers, RBC Clear was developed to put you in full control of your working capital, with enhanced visibility, efficiency and transparency – all with the institutional strength and stability of RBC. Transaction Banking at RBC Clear is one of the top strategic initiatives that will be  key driver in fueling growth in the US.

RBC Clear is seeking a payments system platform expert for our US Cash Management Technology. This is a green field project to build a brand-new system to serve our corporate clients. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer out of our NJ office . This person will work collaboratively with vendors and managing front to back functions to ensure the RTB activities of technical design and development of multi-platform application systems for payments for Fedwire, ACH and RTP.  

You will be heavily involved in shaping the future technology landscape of RBCCM Payments, by delivering key business values for a transformational project in our Banking Technology while implementing strategic components servicing across all CM functions defined in our roadmap.

What is the opportunity?

• You’ll have visibility into and influence over all parts of the technology stack and enjoy a high degree of autonomy in your work.

• You’ll work with an extremely committed team of colleagues constantly challenging each other.
• You’ll contribute to planning, designing, developing, deploying, monitoring, and maintaining significant portions of the payment software that support our users, including the payment system infrastructure.
• You’ll have the chance to provide and receive feedback from your peers, get coaching from more experienced engineers, and provide coaching to other developers within the team and the broader organization.
• You will be responsible for design, develop, and ongoing maintenance of key parts of the Payments Hub platform. 
• You will need to be an expert level organizer to resolve things in a structural manner that provides clarity and direction.
• You are not afraid of challenging the team on technical details and be able to think functionally.
• You will drive the effort for connecting payment platform to various RBC enterprise systems using MQ, KAFKA, JMS and other software skills
• You will perform complex maintenance and support of various Volante and Switch payment environments for USCM as well as domain API components when needed.
• You’ll carry out all run the bank tasks including analysis of Risks, Archer findings, CVEs and works with DevOps and SRE teams to deploy upgrades to Fedwire and ACH platforms.
• You’ll assist production troubleshooting and works with SRE and vendor teams to close the PTASK and Problem Tickets
• You’ll work with vendor team and Devops team to get fixes as appropriate and works to improve resilience, automation, observability and monitoring of application performance.
• You’ll assist with testing the application as needed including lendign a hand with NFT when required

What do you need to succeed?

Must have:

• 8 to 10 years of experience in modern technology development stacks including common cloud platforms using Java, Spring Boot experience, RESTful microservices, MQ middleware, Kafka,
• Extensive knowledge of Connect Direct Technologies used for ACH connectivity
• Has deep experience with unix platforms and working in Cloud based AKS deployment environment
• Has in depth knowledge of Volante application and Switch troubleshooting knowledge and practices to connect to Federal Reserve infrastructure and enterprise applications like Sanctions, Fraud and Finacle
• Well versed with relational databases (Azure SQL DB or similar)
• Willing to learn new technical stacks and quick to learn and perform deployment tasks using CI/CD pipeline
• Enforce quality standards – conduct code reviews, suggest improvements to make code more efficient, review and approve PRs
• Can coordinate with a team of offshore developers as needed including payment platform vendor teams to meet sprint development goals
• Familiar with Dev Ops, CI/CD, Cloud deployment, and basic infrastructural knowledge to face off with Engg Foundation Teams

Nice to have:

• Familiarity developing with Azure cloud environment
• Knowledge of Elastic DB

What’s in it for you?

We thrive on the challenge to be our best and work together to help our clients thrive and communities prosper. Here is what you can expect if you join our team:

• Work in an agile, collaborative, and high-performing team
• The opportunity to do challenging work and take on progressively larger responsibilities
• Ability to make a difference and lasting impact
• Leaders who support your development through regular coaching
• The opportunity to interface with senior-level executives from many different parts of the organization
• A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including competitive compensation, bonuses, and flexible benefits

The expected salary range for this particular position is $110,000-$190,000, depending on your experience, skills, and registration status, market conditions and business needs.

You have the potential to earn more through RBC’s discretionary variable compensation program which gives you an opportunity to increase your total compensation, provided the business meets its performance targets and you meet your individual goals.

RBC’s compensation philosophy and principles recognize the importance of a highly qualified global workforce and plays a critical role in attracting, engaging and retaining talent that:

• Drives RBC’s high-performance culture

• Enables collective achievement of our strategic goals

• Generates sustainable shareholder returns and above market shareholder value

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