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About the Role

As part of a major payment modernization initiative, RBC is seeking a senior developer to contribute to the evolution and modernization of its next-generation payment engine. This critical platform will process over $140 trillion of wire payments annually. You will build high-performance, event-driven microservices using Java and Spring Boot for a robust, scalable, and resilient backend system.

Responsibilities

• Develops and tests software solutions, frameworks, and tools of moderate complexity, ensuring alignment with business requirements and technical standards.
• Collaborates with cross-functional teams to design and implement solutions to resolve moderately complex issues and improve processes.
• Provides mentorship and technical guidance to junior team members, fostering skill development and ensuring adherence to best practices.
• Analyzes system requirements and contributes to the creation of technical strategies, offering recommendations to enhance functionality and operational efficiency.
• Leads 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.
• Resolves 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.
• Assesses and analyzes business and technical requirements to provide estimates on activities/tasks and establish detailed plans and timelines.
• Works within the DevOps pipeline to deliver services across multiple environments.
• Identifies risks, dependencies, assumptions, and constraints that could impede any deliverables.
• Codes and tests for functions of low to high complexity.
• Creates, updates, and contributes 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 communicates and builds rapport with team members, various IT partners, and business partners.

Requirements

• 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
• 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

Skills

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

Location

• Toronto, Canada

Work Type

• Full time

Experience Level

• Senior

Benefits

• A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable

About the Company

• 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.