Lead Software Developer, GFT

What is the opportunity

Global Functions Technology (GFT) helps RBC functions & businesses achieve business objectives through app development & technology support. Were also the center of excellence for employee social collaboration & mobile apps and also build apps that support managing the risk of the bank. Were building a team that embraces innovation and enthusiasm to bring a fresh perspective. Weve been on journeys to build out high performing highly resilient technology platforms that can grow with the continuous demands from Group Risk Human Resources Chief Administrative Office & Audit Capital Markets P&CB and Wealth.
Were looking for talented and passionate technologists to join our team. With a developer mind-set you will work as part of an agile team to deliver high performing applications built on cloud platforms with streaming technologies. We believe in continuous growth and expanding your capabilities. Join our team today and have a big impact influencing the strength of our advanced insight and analytics. This team is involved in several project scopes so there are a variety of projects to get involved in!

What will you do

• Lead Develop and support highly scalable high performance components 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

• Contribute in application design and develop code structures to promote reusability across many applications

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

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

• Communicate effectively with peers and distil technical details into human terms

What do you need to succeed
Must Have:

• Minimum 10 years of professional software development experience delivering highly scalable high performance applications with core skillsets including Java J2EE Spring / REST / Microservices Linux and SQL

• Experience developing secure server side services leveraging the following APIs: Spring Spring Batch/Boot/Integration RESTful Webservices and Apache Data Utilities (JSON Avro CSV/PSV Parquet).

• Experience in designing and building scalable cloud-ready services following microservice architecture principles lead and contribute during technical design discussions and requirement clarifications.

• Experience working with various caching technologies (Ignite/Redis etc.) and NoSQL/SQL databases

• Good knowledge on messaging/streaming technologies like MQ Kafka etc.

• Hands-on experience in writing clean readable/reusable java code with unit tests.

• Experience using DevOps CD/CI tools- Jenkins GitHub Maven Automated Testing tools or similar tools while collaborating with the software development team

• Ability to closely work with business users to understand requirements and translate them into technical design ideas.

• Ability to independently handle module deliveries multi-task effectively and provide timely updates

• Ability to manage and closely work with a 10 member team including developers business analysts and quality engineering.

Nice To Have:

• Experience with web development ( Angular or React (Angular preferred) ).

• Experience working with Python (Intermediate)

• Experience building APIs using NodeJS .NET Core Java

• Experience with Big Data (Hadoop / Spark) & Cloud and containers

• Experience with building Gen AI solutions leveraging copilot

• Experience with Agile software development

• Experience with DevOps CD/CI tools- Jenkins GitHub Automated Testing tools or similar tools

Whats 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 in our communities and achieving mutual success.

• 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

• Opportunity to grow learn and build strong leadership skills

• Ability to make a difference and lasting impact for both RBC and the community

• Work in a dynamic collaborative progressive and high-performing team

• Opportunities to do challenging work and grow your technical literacy

• Broad exposure and opportunity to collaborate with many teams across the organization

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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.