Sr Developer, High Value Payments Engineering

Socket.dev; Toronto; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonuses and flexible benefits

Stock options (where applicable)

Dynamic, high-performing team

Job summary

RBC in Toronto seeks a senior backend developer to contribute to a next-generation payment engine. You will build high-performance, event-driven microservices using Java and Spring Boot, ensuring scalability and reliability.

You will mentor juniors, design solutions with cross-functional teams, and drive architectural decisions within a DevOps workflow across multiple environments. This role targets professionals with strong backend skills and Agile experience.

Qualifications

• 2-5+ years of backend development experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with Java and Spring Boot framework.
• Deep understanding of microservices architecture and distributed systems.
• Practical experience with reactive and event-based programming.
• Proficiency with RESTful API design, Git, and CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins).
• Experience with automated testing (JUnit, Mockito).
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Develops and tests software solutions, frameworks, and tools of moderate complexity.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement solutions.
• Provide mentorship and technical guidance to junior team members.
• Analyze system requirements and contribute to technical strategies.
• Lead tasks or projects requiring advanced problem solving and decision making.
• Drive decisions on issues requiring innovative thinking and technical expertise.
• Resolve problems independently and improve efficiency within scope.
• Maintain relationships with internal teams and external contacts to deliver outcomes.
• Assess requirements to provide estimates and detailed plans/timelines.
• Work within the DevOps pipeline to deliver services across environments.
• Identify risks, dependencies, and constraints affecting deliverables.
• Code and test for functions of low to high complexity.
• Create and maintain critical documentation (TTD, test plans, architecture).
• Communicate effectively with team members and partners.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Microservices

Reactive programming

REST API design

Git

CI/CD

JUnit/Mockito

Agile/Scrum

Jenkins

Tools

Kafka

IBM MQ

Docker

Kubernetes/OpenShift

AWS

Azure

GCP

Splunk

ELK stack

Dynatrace

Job description

Job Description

What is the Opportunity?

As part of a major payment modernization initiative, Royal Bank of Canada is seeking a senior developer to actively to contribute to the evolution and modernization for our next-generation payment engine. This is a critical platform which will at the end of the multi-year roadmap, process over $140 trillion dollars of wire payments a year. You will be building critical components of a robust, scalable, and resilient backend system – creating high-performance, event-driven microservices using Java and Spring Boot.

What You'll Do

• Develops and tests software solutions, frameworks, and tools of moderate complexity, ensuring alignment with business requirements and technical standards.
• Collaborate with cross functional teams to design and implement solutions to resolve moderately complex issues and improve processes.
• Provide mentorship and technical guidance to junior team members, fostering skill development and ensuring adherence to best practices.
• Analyze system requirements and contributes to the creation of technical strategies, offering recommendations to enhance functionality and operational efficiency.
• Lead software development tasks or projects requiring advanced problem solving and decision making, navigating ambiguity.
• Drives decisions on issues requiring innovative thinking and technical expertise and providing recommendations that influence own team and across other work areas.
• Resolve software development related problems independently by identifying areas for improvement and implementing solutions that enhance efficiency within scope of responsibility.
• Maintains and enhances relationships with internal teams and external contacts to deliver measurable business outcomes.
• Assess and analyze business and technical requirements to provide estimates on activities/tasks and establish detailed plans and timelines.
• Working within the DevOps pipeline to deliver services across multiple environments
• Identifying risks, dependencies, assumptions and constraints that could impede any deliverables.
• Code and test for functions of low to high complexity.
• Create, update and contribute to critical documentation relevant to the projects (TDD, Test Plans, Implementation Plans, etc.) as well as security and architecture requirements as defined by each project
• Effectively communicate and build rapport with team members, various IT partners, and business partners

What You Need to Succeed

Must Have:

• 2-5+ years of backend development experience
• Strong hands-on experience with Java and Spring Boot framework
• Deep understanding of microservices architecture and distributed systems
• Practical experience with reactive and event-based programming
• Proficiency with RESTful API design, Git, and CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins)
• Strong experience with automated testing (e.g., JUnit, Mockito)
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies

Nice-to-Have:

• Experience with messaging systems like IBM MQ or Apache Kafka
• Knowledge of microservice resiliency patterns (circuit breakers, back pressure)
• Familiarity with Spec-Kit
• Familiarity with Docker, containerization (Kubernetes/OpenShift), and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Splunk, Dynatrace, ELK stack)
• Knowledge of the banking or financial services domain, especially payment systems

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
• Opportunities to do challenging work
• Opportunities to take on progressively greater accountabilities
• Opportunities to building close relationships with clients

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Job Skills

Active Learning, Agile Methodology, Application Integrations, Detail-Oriented, Enterprise Application Delivery, Group Problem Solving, Programming Languages, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

Additional Job Details

Address: 180 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: 2026-08-04

Application Deadline: 2026-09-05

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

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