Java engineer Jobs in Old toronto, ON

APPLICATION DEADLINE: APRIL 16TH, 2026

This role can be located the Caribbean Banking Market or in Canada where the successful candidate resides.

What is the opportunity?

In this role you will design and develop applications for internet banking, mobile banking, and origination applications within the RBC Caribbean Banking. You will work with stakeholders to support, enhance and upgrade technology solutions to modernization approach that solves given business problems. You will develop new and extend existing applications and APIs in Caribbean Digital Channel portfolio. As an open-minded technical specialist operating within an Agile product team, your primary role will be manager of software development and providing technical direction, design expertise, and implementation of applications. You will work with other internal development teams, solutions architects and infrastructure groups to support, enhance and upgrade technology solutions that solve given business problems. From an expert position on Caribbean Technology’s landscape, this position leads, directs and oversees activities/projects on planning, delivery and implementation to ensure enterprise-wide program strategic goals and objectives are accomplished within approved time frames, scope.

What will you do?

• Designs, develops, and implements microservices and REST APIs of moderate to high complexity using Spring Boot 3.x+ and the Spring ecosystem (Spring Data, Spring Security, Spring Cloud), ensuring alignment with business requirements and technical standards.
• Develops, tests, and maintains software solutions leveraging Oracle and MongoDB databases, implementing efficient data access patterns using Hibernate/JPA and optimizing queries for performance.
• Collaborates with cross-functional teams to architect and implement scalable microservices solutions that address moderately complex business problems and improve system efficiency.
• Containerizes and deploys applications using Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift, ensuring reliability and scalability across environments while maintaining CI/CD best practices using GitHub Actions.
• Writes and maintains comprehensive unit tests (targeting 70% code coverage minimum), demonstrating ownership of code quality and system reliability.
• Conducts and participates in code reviews via GitHub Pull Requests, providing constructive feedback to peers and maintaining high standards for code quality, performance, and maintainability.
• Provides mentorship and technical guidance to junior team members, fostering skill development, code best practices, and knowledge sharing across the team.
• Analyzes system requirements and contributes to technical strategy discussions, offering recommendations to enhance functionality, scalability, and operational efficiency.
• Leads complex software development tasks requiring advanced problem-solving and decision-making, navigating ambiguity and driving solutions that benefit the broader team.
• Resolves software development challenges independently by identifying bottlenecks, implementing optimizations, and enhancing system efficiency within scope of responsibility.
• Maintains strong relationships with internal teams and stakeholders to deliver measurable business outcomes for online banking and client originations platforms.
• Demonstrates expertise in both greenfield microservices development and legacy system modernization, balancing innovation with stability.

What do you need to succeed?

Must-Have:

• 6+ years of experience developing enterprise applications using Java, REST APIs, microservices, Spring (Spring Boot) and messaging systems (e.g. IBM MQ)
• 3+ years of experience, management, technical leadership on large-scale enterprise application for Financial Services organizations.
• Knowledge of enterprise-level security concepts and methodologies, including SSO, SSL/TLS, encryption, API gateways (Apigee), authentication and entitlements.
• Demonstrated leadership/facilitation skills to manage cross functional development teams utilizing an Agile methodology.
• Experience with new/emerging digital business models with banking terminologies.

Nice to Have:

• Experience with gRPC or other modern API protocols
• Familiarity with OpenShift or Kubernetes deployment and management
• Experience with Spring Cloud components (Eureka, Config Server, Circuit Breakers)
• Knowledge of API security best practices and OAuth2/JWT authentication
• Experience in financial services, online banking, or fintech domains
• Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools (ELK stack, Dynatrace, etc.)

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.
• Flexible work/life balance options
• Opportunities to do challenging work.
• A world-class training program.
• Fun and supportive environment that values personal aspirations as much as the results to be delivered.

Job Skills

Active Learning, Agile Methodology, API Design, Application Integrations, Detail-Oriented, Enterprise Application Delivery, Git, GitHub, GitHub Actions, Group Problem Solving, Microservices Architecture, MongoDB, Programming Languages, RESTful APIs, Scrum Methodology, Software Code Quality, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Spring Boot, Spring Data JPA, Unit Testing

Additional Job Details

RBC WATERPARK PLACE, 88 QUEENS QUAY W:TORONTOTorontoCanada37.5Full timeTECHNOLOGY AND OPERATIONSRegularSalaried2026-03-242026-04-17

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

Our Employment Opportunities

At RBC, we are guided by living shared values of Client First, Integrity, Collaboration, Respect and Excellence and winning together as One 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.

RBC is presently inviting candidates to apply for this existing vacancy. Applying to this posting allows you to express your interest in this current career opportunity at RBC. Qualified applicants may be contacted to review their resume in more detail.