Job Description
We're looking for a visionary Senior Software Engineer to provide strategic technical leadership and deep subject-matter expertise in designing and implementing enterprise-scale AI services. This is an exceptional opportunity to shape the future of AI engineering at RBC, mentoring a team of talented engineers while driving architectural excellence and innovation across our production AI infrastructure.Your responsibilities include:Defining technical vision and strategy for AI services architecture, ensuring alignment with business objectives and enterprise standards
Designing, building, and optimizing mission-critical AI services that power the organization's most strategic AI and ML applications
Establishing and evangelizing software best practices, architectural patterns, and quality standards across AI engineering teams
Leading complex technical design decisions and enterprise-scale system architecture for AI platforms, including API frameworks, data governance models, and integration patterns
Collaborating cross-functionally with infrastructure, platform, and ML teams to architect seamless, reliable, and performant AI systems at scale
Mentoring and developing junior and staff engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning
Building highly scalable, resilient, and secure cloud and on-premise software systems for hosting AI services using cutting-edge technologies
Driving technical innovation and evaluating emerging technologies to maintain competitive advantage
5+ years of software engineering experience, with significant expertise designing and implementing distributed systems and AI service architectures
Proven track record architecting and delivering large-scale, production systems serving millions of transactions or requests
Advanced expertise in software engineering best practices, architectural patterns, design reviews, and system optimization
Deep hands-on experience designing microservices, event-driven, and service-oriented architectures at enterprise scale
Expert-level proficiency in Python and Golang, with ability to make principled technology choices
Demonstrated leadership mentoring engineers and influencing technical direction across teams
In-depth knowledge of containerization and orchestration platforms (Docker, Kubernetes, OCP4) with production deployment experience
Advanced experience optimizing performance at scale, implementing sophisticated caching strategies, and tuning complex distributed systems
Hands-on expertise building and deploying applications across hybrid cloud environments (AWS, Azure) and on-premise infrastructure
Expert-level knowledge of data architecture, database design (SQL and NoSQL), and data access patterns in high-scale environments
Understanding of ML model serving, inference optimization, advanced ML system design patterns, and MLOps
Experience designing and implementing infrastructure for agentic AI systems and self-hosted ML model deployment
Advanced expertise in observability, monitoring, logging, and security practices for distributed systems
Become part of a team that thinks progressively and works collaboratively. We care about seeing each other reach full potential
A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock options where applicable
Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities
Ability to make a difference and lasting impact from a local-to-global scale
Address:
RBC WATERPARK PLACE, 88 QUEENS QUAY W:TORONTOCity:
TorontoCountry:
CanadaWork hours/week:
37.5Employment Type:
Full timePlatform:
Job Type:
RegularPay Type:
SalariedPosted Date:
2026-07-27Application Deadline:
2026-08-28Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date aboveOur Employment OpportunitiesAt 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.Join our Talent Community
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