Lead Python Software Engineer, GFT

RBC; Toronto; On-site; CAD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution is seeking an experienced lead Python engineer for their Toronto office. The role involves building reliable systems for financial risk management and MLOps platforms. Applicants must have over 5 years of experience in Python, solid CI/CD skills, and the ability to work effectively in a dynamic team. The position offers competitive salary packages and opportunities for growth in a collaborative environment.

Benefits

Comprehensive Total Rewards Program

Flexible work/life balance options

World-class training program

Opportunities for growth

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional Python experience developing and deploying backend applications.
• Proven ability to design and implement fault-tolerant error and exception handling strategies.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, deploy, and maintain production-grade Python applications.
• Ensure robustness and reliability through strong design and monitoring.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines with tools such as GitHub Actions.

Skills

Python

CI/CD automation

Design

Back-End Development

GitHub Actions

Debugging

Communication

Education

5+ years of professional Python experience

Tools

FastAPI

Flask

Django

Linux VMs

AWS

Job description

We are hiring an experienced lead Python engineer to build reliable and scalable systems for financial risk management and an MLOps platform for risk modeling. This role is for an engineer who is passionate about operational excellence and clean code.

What will you do?

• Design, develop, deploy, and maintain production‑grade Python applications for batch data processing, APIs, and web applications.

• Ensure robustness and reliability through strong design, exception handling, structured error recovery, and logging, monitoring, and observability for operational insight into running systems.

• Manage reproducible environments using virtual environments (e.g., uv, venv, poetry, pipenv), and packaging to ensure deployment consistency and reproducibility.

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines with tools such as GitHub Actions, automating build, test, and deployment workflows.

• Collaborate closely with Business, DevOps, and SRE teams to ensure smooth transitions from development to production.

• Participate in code reviews, implementing best practices for readability, maintainability, and performance.

• Contribute to engineering standards, including automated testing, code reviews, templates, frameworks, toolchains, operational processes, deployment, and technical documentation.

• Develop and distribute reusable Python package.

What do you need to succeed?

Must Have

• 5+ years of professional Python experience developing and deploying backend applications.

• Proven ability to design and implement fault‑tolerant error and exception handling strategies.

• Experience with one of the frameworks: FastAPI, Flask, or Django.

• Hands‑on experience with virtual environments and dependency management tools.

• Solid understanding of CI/CD automation (GitHub Actions preferred) and Git‑based workflows.

• Background in deploying and running applications on Linux VMs.

• Experience in designing databases (relational and/or NoSQL) and working with HDFS, S3, and API integrations.

• Debugging, troubleshooting, and performance optimization skills.

• Experience in developing and distributing reusable Python packages.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross‑functional teams.

Nice to Have

• Experience deploying, monitoring, and debugging applications in the cloud (e.g., AWS EC2, ECS, Lambda, S3, RDS).

• Experience with asynchronous programming (asyncio, Celery).

• Experience with converting Python code to Cython to improve performance.

• Familiarity with observability platforms (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, ELK).

• Experience working on Open‑source projects.

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, to take on progressively greater accountabilities, to build close relationships with clients.

• Access to a variety of job opportunities across business and geographies.

Job Skills

Active Learning, Agile Methodology, Application Integrations, Application Programming Interface (API), Back‑End Development, Design, Detail‑Oriented, Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Application Delivery, GitHub Actions, Group Problem Solving, Programming Languages, Python (Programming Language), Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

Additional Job Details

Address: RBC WATERPARK PLACE, 88 QUEENS QUAY 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: 2025-12-04

Application Deadline: 2025-12-31

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

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