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About the Role

We're looking for a Senior Backend Engineer with a passion for operational excellence and security to join our team and help shape the financial future of the next generation. You'll work at the intersection of engineering and security operations, driving vulnerability remediation, security compliance, and infrastructure hardening across Mydoh—all while maintaining the platform reliability that serves thousands of young users daily. This role combines your core backend engineering skills with a strategic focus on proactive security posture. You'll own not just what we build, but how we keep it secure and compliant. This is ideal for engineers who want to see their work impact customer trust and organizational resilience.

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain backend services using NestJS and TypeScript, architecting scalable APIs that power our platform
Design, build, and maintain reusable component libraries and modules that scale across backend applications
Contribute meaningfully to architecture discussions, performance optimization, and system design
Own complex deliverables across the complete development lifecycle, from concept to production
Collaborate on database design, API contracts, and technical implementation details
Lead vulnerability remediation efforts, triaging and remediating vulnerabilities and security scan findings with business context and priority judgment
Own dependency management, maintaining secure, up-to-date package versions across our backend services and communicating security implications to the team
Support incident response, investigating security-related incidents, recommending system improvements, and treating each incident as a learning opportunity
Build security automation, creating tooling and processes that enable developers to ship secure code faster (e.g., SAST integration, dependency scanning, shift-left security practices)
Collaborate with RBC security teams, aligning Mydoh's security posture with enterprise standards and compliance requirements
Own operational excellence by ensuring SLAs are met, assisting with incident response, and continuously improving our operational and security posture
Be comfortable being part of an on-call rotation, driving and supporting incident remediation, and recommending improvements
Drive automation and tooling to reduce operational overhead, improve observability, enable proactive monitoring, and scale efficiently
Help define and champion development best practices that embed security as a shared responsibility

Requirements

Proven expertise in TypeScript and NestJS
Strong backend skills with PostgreSQL and TypeORM
Solid experience with testing frameworks (Jest, Vitest)
Proven track record of delivering ownership of complex, scalable systems
Deep consideration for maintainability, testability, performance, and scalability in your code
Senior-level judgment with architectural opinions and technical perspective
Payments or financial services domain knowledge
Experience with incident response, SLA management, and observability tools
Demonstrated interest or background in security best practices and vulnerability management
AWS cloud infrastructure experience
Experience with OAuth and authentication flows
Background in API performance optimization
Experience with API design and microservices architecture
Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
Experience with vulnerability scanning tools and dependency checkers
Knowledge of compliance frameworks (PCI DSS, HIPAA, SOC 2) relevant to fintech
Familiarity with security incident management and post-mortems
Rapid development using AI workflows

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
Leaders who support your development through coaching and mentoring opportunities
Ability to make a difference and lasting impact on both product and security posture
Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team
A world-class training program in financial services and security practices
Flexible work/life balance options
Opportunities to do challenging work at the intersection of engineering and security

About the Company

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.
You'll build backend systems that directly impact how young people learn, earn, and grow their financial confidence, all while protecting customer data and maintaining the trust that makes our platform reliable for thousands of users. Your work on security and operational excellence ensures that Mydoh remains a trustworthy financial partner.
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.