Engineering Manager

RBC; Toronto; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Total Rewards Program

Flexible benefits

Stock options where applicable

Flexible work-life balance

Job summary

RBC is seeking an Engineering Manager in Toronto to lead a 5–8‑person full-stack team building financial tools. You will balance hands-on technical leadership with people management, driving code quality, architectural direction, and scalable processes while fostering an inclusive, high‑performing culture.

The role emphasizes mentoring, performance development, and collaboration with product and design to deliver complex features on time. Strong fintech background preferred.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of software engineering management experience or 5+ years as a senior engineer transitioning into management
• Deep technical expertise in full-stack development (TypeScript, NestJS, React Native or similar)
• Proven track record of improving code quality and establishing development standards
• Strong people management skills; ability to mentor, coach, and develop engineers
• Experience driving process improvements and scalable development practices
• Excellent communication and cross-team collaboration skills
• Demonstrated ability to enable and empower teams rather than micromanage
• Hands-on technical work balanced with management responsibilities
• Background in financial services or fintech

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of 5-8 full-stack engineers, providing career growth, technical guidance, and feedback
• Stay hands-on with code reviews, architecture discussions, and occasional feature development
• Drive code quality by enforcing best practices and thorough PR reviews
• Champion process improvements across testing strategy, CI/CD, and deployment processes
• Remove blockers and foster psychological safety to empower developers
• Collaborate with product and design for feasible, scalable, timely delivery of features
• Contribute to architectural decisions and technical direction
• Participate in hiring and onboarding to scale the team
• Support on-call rotations and incident remediation to drive continuous improvement

Skills

Team leadership

Full-stack development

TypeScript

NestJS

React Native

React

Code reviews

Mentoring

Communication

Tools

AWS

GitHub Actions

PostgreSQL

NestJS

React Native

TypeScript

Job description

WHAT IS THE OPPORTUNITY?

We're seeking an Engineering Manager to lead and mentor a team of 5-8 full‑stack engineers building financial tools for the next generation. You'll balance hands‑on technical leadership with people management, maintaining your coding skills while driving team excellence through code quality, process improvement, and developer empowerment. This role is ideal for someone who thrives at the intersection of technical depth and team development.

Job Description

WHAT IS THE OPPORTUNITY?

We're seeking an Engineering Manager to lead and mentor a team of 5-8 full‑stack engineers building financial tools for the next generation. You'll balance hands‑on technical leadership with people management, maintaining your coding skills while driving team excellence through code quality, process improvement, and developer empowerment. This role is ideal for someone who thrives at the intersection of technical depth and team development.

We're looking for talented and experienced leaders who can grow a positive, inclusive and supportive culture focused on engineering excellence and delighting customers. You'll foster an environment where engineers learn and develop their skills, and where the team obsesses about quality and maintains a proven track record of shipping great products.

Our Tech Stack

• Frontend: React Native, React, TypeScript
• Backend/Data: NestJS, TypeORM, PostgreSQL
• Testing: Vitest, Jest, Detox
• CI/CD: GitHub Actions
• Cloud: AWS
• Monitoring: Dynatrace

WHAT WILL YOU DO?

• Lead and mentor a team of 5-8 full‑stack engineers, providing career growth, technical guidance, and constructive feedback
• Maintain technical credibility by staying hands‑on, participating in code reviews, architecture discussions, and occasional feature development to stay current with the stack
• Drive code quality through establishing and enforcing best practices, conducting thorough PR reviews, and fostering a culture of ownership and excellence
• Champion process improvement by identifying bottlenecks, proposing solutions, and continuously refining development workflows (testing strategy, CI/CD, deployment processes, etc.)
• Enable and empower developers by removing blockers, advocating for their growth, and creating psychological safety for innovation and experimentation
• Collaborate across product and design to ensure technical feasibility, scalability, and timely delivery of complex features
• Contribute strategically** to architectural decisions and technical direction alongside your team
• Build and scale the team as needed, participating in hiring and onboarding
• Support the team through on‑call rotations, driving incident remediation, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement from incidents

WHAT DO YOU NEED TO SUCCEED?

Must have

• 3+ years of software engineering management experience or 5+ years as a senior engineer transitioning into management
• Deep technical expertise in full‑stack development (ideally TypeScript, NestJS, React Native, or similar modern stacks)
• Proven track record of improving code quality and establishing development standards
• Strong people management skills, ability to mentor, coach, and develop engineers at various levels
• Experience driving process improvements and building scalable development practices
• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate across teams (engineering, product, design)
• Demonstrated ability to enable and empower teams rather than micromanage
• Comfort with hands‑on technical work while balancing management responsibilities
• Background in financial services or fintech

Nice-to-have

• Experience managing distributed or remote teams
• Familiarity with AWS, CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions), and monitoring tools
• Experience scaling teams from 5 to 10+ engineers
• Knowledge of performance optimization and system scalability at scale
• Native development in iOS/Android
• Rapid development using AI workflows

What’s in it for you?

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

Why Mydoh?

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.

Lead a talented team building products that empower the next generation through financial literacy and practical money management. You'll have direct impact on both your engineers' growth and the millions of young users who benefit from our platform.

Job Skills

Application Development, Application Integrations, Application Maintenance, Applications Architecture, Commercial Acumen, Enterprise Application Delivery, Information Technology Management, Programming Languages, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), System Applications

Additional Job Details

Address:

20 KING ST W:TORONTO

City:

Toronto

Country:

Canada

Work hours/week:

37.5

Employment Type:

Full time

Platform:

TECHNOLOGY AND OPERATIONS

Job Type:

Regular

Pay Type:

Salaried

Posted Date:

2026-08-14

Application Deadline:

2026-09-01

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.