Lead Backend/Software Developer

What is the Opportunity?

Our clients are unique and their digital banking experience should be one-of-a-kind. We want our clients to feel empowered when they interact with us. We’re investing in technologies and data insights to evolve as our clients do. We’ve joined our product, design and technology teams to collaborate to deliver an innovative personalized user experience. Being a part of our Team means you’ll join a culture of creativity, curiosity, and continuous learning.

We’re envisioning the future of banking and building the core platforms to support it. The team is focused on understanding our client’s needs to deliver scalable automated solutions. Our technologists design, develop and support the services we own. We’re building a team who is not afraid to challenge the status quo; embraces innovation; and excited to bring a fresh perspective. We’ve set out to simplify our client’s interactions by building a unified platform, custom tailored to our client’s needs.

We’re looking for a talented and passionate Lead Backend Developer to join our team. Our team is designed to deliver products throughout the client’s journey, not projects; each squad is setup for agility and continuous delivery, and then empowered with the autonomy to chart their own course to success. As an engineer you will work as part of a small, autonomous, agile team to deliver both internal and external applications; built on a modern hybrid cloud platform using the latest micro-services architecture. We believe in the power of working together, you’ll get to work with your peers, business partners and RBC’s tech community and you’ll have the opportunity to grow and expand your capabilities. Join our team today and magnify your impact influencing the future of banking on a global scale.

What will you do?

• You will be creating new services and customer-facing applications using the latest technologies which will shape the future of banking for RBC

• Collaborate with other developers on the team to model and design new API interfaces.

• Develop and support highly scalable, high performance APIs within an Agile development team

• Ensure high code quality through automated unit and functional testing

• Automate processes within the development pipeline; identify opportunities for efficiency gains and reducing time-to-market, and enabling continuous delivery

• Design and develop code structures to promote reusability across many applications

• Work within an Agile product team comprised of technical, product and business team members to deliver exceptional products.

• Lead and mentor other developers to elevate the entire team’s skillset and mindset. Coach others on the team and practice peer-programming.

• Stay open-minded and look beyond your stack to solve complex problems

• You will actively seek out knowledge about new technologies and how they can be used to solve current and foreseeable challenges

• Excellent communication including the ability to distill technical details into human terms

What do you need to succeed?

Must Haves

• 5+ years experience with Java 8+ and Spring Framework (Spring Boot) and/or NodeJS

• 5+ years experience developing distributed cloud applications (Pivotal Cloud Foundry, OpenShift, Docker)

• Hands on experience designing, developing, testing and troubleshooting RESTful API and interface specifications (Swagger, RAML, SOAP)

• Experience working with DevOps pipelines (Git, Maven, Jenkins), continuous integration/delivery, automated testing (unit, functional, performance)

• Experience working with security gateways and protocols (JWT, Oauth2.0, SSL Certificates)

• Experience working within professional software engineering practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source code management, build processes and testing

• Experience with code merging and branching methodologies using Git and code release process.

• Working knowledge of web-based application architectures and frameworks (including Angular or React) and the way it integrates with services.

• Leverage Open Source technology and contribute to open source where possible

• Experience supporting production-level software (Splunk, Dynatrace).

• Solid experience with abstraction and applying it to learning new languages

• Ability to simplify complex problems and communicate them in plain language

Nice-to-have:

• Object Oriented coding practices, including strong design patterns knowledge, refactoring, clean code.

• Experience working with Kafka, MySQL, Non-relational databases, Caching and

• Experience in BDD and TDD methodologies

• Working experience in one or more of:

  • algorithm design and optimization

  • large-scale systems

  • parallel or distributed systems

  • RDBMS and/or modern scale-out repositories (MySQL, MongoDB, Redis)

• Experience building message driven architectures (Kafka)

• Micro-service design and implementation (load balancing, discovery, resiliency)

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, fair compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable

• Leaders who help 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 options

• Opportunities to do challenging work

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Job Skills

Application Development, Application Integrations, Application Maintenance, Applications Architecture, Detail-Oriented, Enterprise Application Delivery, Group Problem Solving, Programming Languages, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), System Applications

Additional Job Details

RBC WATERPARK PLACE, 88 QUEENS QUAY W:TORONTOTorontoCanada37.5Full timeTECHNOLOGY AND OPERATIONSRegularSalaried2026-02-182026-03-11

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.

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.