Senior ML Platform Developer

RBC; Calgary; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution in Calgary is looking for an experienced ML Platform Engineer to join its Borealis team. This role requires expertise in full stack development and involves designing, maintaining, and developing platform services to support data engineering and data science. The ideal candidate has strong proficiency in software development with at least 3 years of experience, skilled in API development and object-oriented design, along with a passion for automation and mentoring others. Join a dedicated team committed to leveraging machine learning in enterprise workflows.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience as a software developer/software engineer.
• Proficiency in at least one major programming language.
• Strong platform engineering experience with scalable distributed systems.
• Experience building APIs and RESTful services.

Responsibilities

• Performing complex application programming activities, including coding, testing, and maintaining applications.
• Creating and reviewing technical design documents.
• Developing APIs and microservices for ML Platform.
• Designing and building ML deployment tools and automation systems.

Skills

Software development

API development

Object-oriented design

SQL

NoSQL

Mentoring

Automation

Cross-functional communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or software engineering

Job description

Job Description

Our team is looking for an experienced ML Platform Engineer with expertise in full stack development to contribute to our platform services.

RBC Borealis ML platform engineering team is responsible for enabling on‑premises infrastructure for our internal data engineering and data science teams at RBC. We work with hundreds of developers and data scientists across RBC to leverage our on‑premises resources to accelerate their work across the full end‑to‑end data and machine learning lifecycle. This is a unique opportunity to grow in the world of machine learning infrastructure and work with a team of passionate individuals committed to the mission of bringing ML to enterprise.

At RBC Borealis, you’ll be joining a team that works on building and enhancing on‑premises solutions to support data engineering and data science teams across the organization. The role involves designing, developing, and maintaining platform services, APIs, and tools to enable seamless machine learning workflows and lifecycle management.

The Enterprise Architecture team is undertaking multiple complex enterprise‑wide initiatives as part of RBC’s ongoing plan to improve technology management and architectural governance across the organization. In this role you will be responsible for strategically planning and managing successful implementation of the above mentioned. The role will coordinate, develop, lead, communicate and execute activities to ensure objectives are accomplished according on time.

What will you do?

• Performing complex application programming activities, including coding, testing, debugging, documenting, maintaining, and modifying complex applications programs.
• Create and review technical design documents, understand how the design will be used in the code development process, and facilitate meetings to design, troubleshoot, and execute projects.
• Develop APIs and microservices to support Enterprise Machine Learning Platform client initiatives.
• Present technical topics at regular sprint meetings.
• Designing, building, and optimizing machine learning deployment tools and automation systems that operate the business’s data and ML applications.
• Supporting applications and projects with infrastructure design decision, and monitoring solution.

What do you need to succeed?

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, or equivalent.
• 3+ years’ experience as a software developer/software engineer and proficient in at least one major programming language, as well as strong knowledge of object‑oriented design and data structures.
• Strong working knowledge of SQL and NoSQL Datastores.
• Experience in building APIs and RESTful services.
• Experience in mentoring junior engineers, leading code review and design sessions.
• Passion for simplifying and automating work, making things better, continuous learning, solving open‑ended problems, improving efficiency and helping others.
• Strong communication skills with ability to work cross‑functionally to articulate, measure and solve issues.
• Great attention to detail, organizational skills and an analytical mind.
• Strong platform engineering experience and experience implementing scalable distributed systems.