Lead Software Engineer

Job Summary

Job Description

What is the opportunity?

Be a part of a team, Wealth Management Technology, to build and transform Backend Trading products for our clients. You will be heavily involved in shaping our RBC technology landscape, delivering key business values for our clients. Assist with integrating, extending our trading services, working with other trading applications and partners, within RBC and Capital Markets, and external vendor partners. We are looking for a lead senior software engineer, a seasoned technologist to build cutting-edge products and solutions in cloud environments. You'll join a very dynamic, agile team to build brand new innovative products and solutions, to extend and transform existing services for quality client experiences. We operate in a dynamic, agile working environment, while leveraging the strength of innovative technology of RBC as a leading North American bank.

What Will You Do?

• As a Lead Software Engineer, collaborating with Solution Architects, Software Engineers, and others, you will lead the design and development of innovative, high performing solutions, build new and existing products and integrating systems. This role will encompass delivering Trading Backend Services.

• Closely collaborate with Scrum Masters, core teams and product teams to manage product backlog. Provide planning and estimation of product work packages to meet user requirements and objectives within budget and on time. Work through sprints, leading the squad in their activities/tasks required in designing, building and unit testing products.

• Lead software engineers to analyze user needs, design and build products from business requirements. Lead in designs, solutions, adherence to technical roadmaps and solution architectures, creating and reviewing technical specifications, validation of designs, code implementations, reviewing tests, and code walkthroughs.

• Collaborate and incorporate inputs from cross-functional teams (product, compliance, security, DevOps, trading specialist, quality engineers, solution architects).

• Deliver high quality, high performance, and highly observable solutions.

• Provide third-level support of products as required.

What Do You Need To Succeed?

Must Have

• 10+ years in hands-on development of software solutions in cloud environment.

• Hands-on experience with OpenShift, Kubernetes, Java, and Spring Frameworks.

• Experience with delivering multi-cloud, hybrid and/or multi-data center solutions.

• Excellent applied understanding of Microservices, Service Mesh, RESTful APIs and Event Driven Designs and hands-on expertise in container deployments for Microservices.

• Hands-on experience with building highly testable solutions and code quality metrics, using test Containers, Test automation, simulators.

• Solid understanding and experience of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery CI/CD, GitHub, Actions, scanners.

• Experience delivering large scale solutions in Agile methodology. Experience with troubleshooting in a large, distributed systems.

• Experience delivering highly observable solutions (SRE).

• Experience with delivering distributed messaging solutions using KAFKA.

• Experience with REST, APIGEE, IBM MQ, HTTPS, XSLT, XML, AVRO.

• Experience with MS SQL, MongoDB.

Nice to Have

• Trading business domain knowledge, experience with Equity, Options, Mutual Funds and Fixed Income Securities.

• Experience with/Understanding of FIX v4.2, v4.4.

• Experience with/Understanding of Test-Driven Development (TDD).

• Experience with/Understanding of REDIS, GRIDGAIN.

• Experience with/Understanding of Design Thinking, XP, Domain Driven Design (DDD), UI/UX.

• Experience with/Understanding of Launch Darkly.

• Experience with C/C++/C#, Golang, Python, DB2.

• Experience with/Understanding of Sybase, Postgres SQL, MYSQL.

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.

Job Skills

Active Learning, Agile Leadership, Agile Methodology, Analytical Thinking, API Development, Application Integrations, Applications Programming, Coaching, Containerization, Design, Documentations, Domain Driven Design (DDD), Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Application Delivery, GraphQL (Query Language), Group Problem Solving, Information Technology (IT) Systems, Information Technology Trends, Innovative Products, Innovative Technologies, Interpersonal Relationships, Istio, Java, Kubernetes {+ 23 more}

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: TECHNOLOGY AND OPERATIONS

Job Type: Regular

Pay Type: Salaried

Posted Date: 2025-04-23

Application Deadline: 2025-05-18

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

Inclusion and Equal Opportunity Employment

At 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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