Associate Director - Lead Software Developer

RBC; Toronto; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

RBC’s QTS team is responsible for developing, enhancing and maintaining applications service for RBC Backoffice operations. As a Lead Full Stack Software Developer within an Agile product team, you will design, code and deliver high-quality software solutions to support business growth.

You will lead a diverse team, champion best coding practices, advocate modern tech upgrades, and collaborate with Product Owners to translate business requirements into scalable Java Spring Boot and Python-based

Qualifications

• 8–10 years of software development experience.
• Strong Java 17+ and Spring Boot for microservices.
• Experience with JPA/Hibernate.
• Experience with Kubernetes and Docker.
• Experience with Python data manipulation (Pandas/Polars).
• Familiarity with GitHub, Jira, Confluence, Jenkins.

Responsibilities

• Direct a diverse squad of technical, product, and design professionals to deliver products aligned with Agile principles and RBC’s Ways of Working.
• Uphold high standards for code quality and advocate for a shift-left approach to quality assurance.
• Establishing best coding practices to be shared across the journey.
• Advocate and establish plans for the latest upgrades in the journey’s technology stack.
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor for your journey and your team.
• Work in an Agile team environment which is fast-paced, fun and collaborative.
• Work directly with the Product Owners and Scrum Masters to ensure that deliverables meet the business’ needs.
• Understand, interpret business requirements into technical solutions.

Skills

Java proficiency

Spring Boot experience

Python experience

Agile leadership

Code quality

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Jira

Confluence

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Docker

Kubernetes

Hibernate/JPA

IBM MQ / Kafka

SQL

REST APIs

Job description

Job Description

RBC’s QTS team is responsible for developing, enhancing and maintaining applications service for RBC Backoffice operations.

RBC’s QTS team is responsible for developing, enhancing and maintaining applications service for RBC Backoffice operations.

As a Lead Full Stack Software Developer operating within an Agile product team, your primary role will be designing, coding and delivering highest-quality software solutions. You will also be expected to play a key role in building modern applications to support business growth.

We are looking for a highly motivated, top-notch software engineer who is a great team player constantly thinking about quality, maintainability, robustness, and simplicity in all generated code. To excel in this role providing technical direction, design expertise, and implementation of Java Spring Boot applications and Python are all must haves.

What will you do?

• Direct a diverse squad of technical, product, and design professionals to deliver products aligned with Agile principles and RBC’s Ways of Working.
• Uphold high standards for code quality and advocate for a "shift-left" approach to quality assurance.
• Establishing best coding practices to be shared across the journey
• Advocate and establish plans for the latest upgrades in the journey’s technology stack.
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor for your journey and your team
• Work in an Agile team environment which is fast-paced, fun and collaborative.
• Work directly with the Product Owners and Scrum Masters to ensure that deliverables meet the business’ needs.
• Understand, interpret business requirements into technical solutions.

What do you need to succeed?

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• 8 - 10 years of experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with Core Java 17 or later, demonstrating fluency with modern language features including records, sealed classes, pattern matching, the Streams API, and the Java concurrency model.
• Proficiency in the Spring Boot framework for building production-grade microservices, including REST APIs, dependency injection, configuration management, and integration with common Spring ecosystem components.
• Solid experience using JPA and Hibernate for object-relational mapping and database persistence, including entity modeling, transaction management, and performance tuning of queries.
• Hands-on experience with at least one enterprise messaging technology such as IBM MQ, Solace, or Apache Kafka, along with a clear understanding of messaging patterns, delivery guarantees, and reliability semantics.
• Good working knowledge of Kubernetes for container orchestration and Docker for containerization, including familiarity with deployment manifests, service configuration, scaling strategies, and troubleshooting workloads in containerized environments.
• Working knowledge of Python with experience using data manipulation libraries such as Pandas or Polars, and the ability to establish and work with database connections from Python applications.
• Hands-on experience in modernizing legacy systems, including refactoring codebases and migrating to modern architectures or frameworks.
• Hands-on experience with Github, GitHub Actions, Jira, Confluence and Jenkins.
• Excellent interpersonal and highly developed communication skills (verbal and written).
• Experience with using Gen AI developer productivity boost tools.

Nice-to-haves:

• Familiarity with compliance, audit issues affecting banking businesses in the capital markets preferred.
• Excellent data manipulation and end user computing tool development skills (i.e. including competence in some subset of: SQL queries, MS Office macros & scripting and Microsoft Office products).
• Analytical mindset, creativity and commercial focus to deliver optimal solutions for the business.
• Good organizational skills and able to produce architecture and design concepts.
• Must exhibit the ability to work well with senior technical leads, business analysts, peer developers and junior developers.

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 and pension plan.
• Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities
• Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive and highly performing team
• Opportunities to do challenging work, making a difference and lasting impact on communities.
• Enjoy a comfortable work environment with the option to dress casually.
• Network and build lasting relationships with developers from diverse backgrounds from across Canada and the world.

Job Skills

Application Development, Application Integrations, Application Maintenance, Applications Architecture, Detail-Oriented, Enterprise Application Delivery, Group Problem Solving, Programming Languages, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), System Applications

Additional Job Details

Address: RBC CENTRE, 155 WELLINGTON ST W:TORONTO

City: Toronto

Country: Canada

Work hours/week: 37.5

Employment Type: Full time

Platform: CAPITAL MARKETS

Job Type: Regular

Pay Type: Salaried

Posted Date: 2026-07-28

Application Deadline: 2026-10-25

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

Our Employment Opportunities

At RBC, we are guided by living shared values of Client First, Integrity, Collaboration, Respect and Excellence and winning together as One 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.

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