Senior Application Developer

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

Job summary

A leading financial institution located in Toronto is seeking a Full-Stack Developer for the Security Insights & AI - Digital Development team. The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of experience in developing and shipping code for production systems. Responsibilities include building systems for cyber security, maintaining product integrity, and collaborating with various teams. This position offers competitive compensation, flexible benefits, and opportunities for professional development in a dynamic work environment.

Benefits

Comprehensive Total Rewards Program

Flexible work/life balance options

World-class training program

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience developing and shipping code for production systems.
• Strong programming skills in Python and web development technologies.
• Experience in cloud engineering and deployments.

Responsibilities

• Build/maintain systems and tools for financial and cybercrime solutions.
• Engineer high-quality integrated systems across multiple teams.
• Gather input from stakeholders to inform development.

Skills

Python (Django, FastAPI)

Web development (Typescript, Tailwind, NuxtJS)

Programming Skills

SQL, NoSQL, Vector databases

Active Learning

Agile Methodology

Tools

Red Hat OpenShift

PostgreSQL

Job description

Job Description

What is the opportunity?

The Security Insights & AI - Digital Development team is constantly undertaking complex development initiatives within Global Cyber Security. Our Digital Development team designs, architects, and builds bespoke solutions to support forward-thinking and industry leading initiatives from Cyber & Digital Threat Hunting, Cyber Analytics, and Adversary Emulation teams. In this role, you will be a full-stack developer responsible for designing and implementing application hosting LLM powered tools. The role involves coordination, development, communication and execution to ensure objectives are accomplished on time and meeting intents.

What will you do?

• You’ll help build/maintain the systems, products, and tools that will be responsible for delivering solutions that intersect the financial and cybercrime spaces
• Engineer high quality integrated systems across multiple teams
• Develop maintenance procedures to encourage and ensure regular optimal productivity of the applications
• Integrate applications to various cloud-based platforms
• Gather input from stakeholders to direct and inform development, while enhancing final product deliverables
• Continuously identify potential issues, conflicts, and risks while analyzing these issues and developing appropriate mitigations or escalating where appropriate
• Establish strong working relationships across various business units and platforms to build influence and impact with key business partners.

What do you need to succeed?

Must-have

• Technical strength with 5+ years of experience developing and shipping code for production systems
• Knowledgeable in building highly scalable, robust, and fault-tolerant applications
• Strong programming skills in Python (Django, FastAPI)
• Hands-on experience with web development (Typescript, Tailwind, NuxtJS) and modern frontend technologies (VueJS, Angular, React)
• Deadline-driven and results-oriented; able to meet consistently high-quality standards while handling a variety of tasks and deadlines simultaneously.

Nice-to-have

• Azure EntraID or similar IAM integrations
• Good understanding of SQL, NoSQL, Vector databases
• Experience in cloud engineering and deployments (Openshift, Azure)
• Professional experience with LLMs, RAG, vector search, and context engineering pipelines, agent orchestration frameworks (OpenAI, Cohere, pgvector, LangChain, LangGraph, Semantic Kernel)

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.

• Opportunity to develop industry-leading solutions that target cyber security concerns within a mature organization
• 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 optionsOpportunities to do challenging work

Job Skills

Active Learning, Agile Methodology, Application Integrations, Detail-Oriented, Django Development, Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Application Delivery, Group Problem Solving, Large Language Models (LLMs), PostgreSQL, Python Software Development, Red Hat OpenShift, Structured Query Language (SQL), Teamwork, TypeScript, Vuejs

Additional Job Details

• Address: 16 YORK ST: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: 2026-01-20
• Application Deadline: 2026-02-20

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.