What is the Opportunity?

As an Associate Director, Lead Software Developer within the Business & Client Services Technology team, you will play a key role in developing and delivering innovative solutions that drive the transformation and modernization of RBC Capital Markets’ Payment Systems. In this high-impact role, you will work across the full software development lifecycle, collaborating with cross-functional teams to design, build, test, and deploy scalable and efficient applications. Your contributions will directly support the organization’s strategic goals by enhancing operational efficiency, ensuring compliance, and enabling future growth through cutting-edge technology solutions.

What will you do?

• Work closely with business and other stakeholders to really understand the business, lead application architecture vision and implement the technical solution.

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable front-end (Angular/React) and back-end (Java, Spring Boot,Python) applications with a focus on high performance and user experience.

• Collaborate with the broader technology group to converge on best practices, adopt reusable frameworks and components and contribute to building further reusable assets.

• Solve technical challenges creatively and independently, delivering clean, maintainable, and efficient code.

• Contribute to the team’s success by coaching junior developers, sharing technical expertise, and performing code reviews.

• Actively participate in sprint planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives to align on team goals.

• Develop and execute automated tests to ensure quality and reliability of code

• In this role, you will communicate and interact frequently with RBC partners and/or employees located across Canada and/or worldwide

What do you need to succeed?

Must-have

• 8-10 years of experience as a Full Stack Developer with expertise in:

  • Front-end Development: Proficiency in Angular/React (or similar frameworks) and Python (e.g., Flask or Django) for building dynamic, responsive user interfaces.

  • Back-end Development: Strong experience with Java (Spring Boot), Python and FastAPI for developing scalable, high-performance services.

• Proficiency in building and consuming REST APIs and working with microservices architectures.

• Strong understanding of RDBMS (e.g., Oracle, MSSQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, ELK).

• Experience with messaging platforms like Solace, MQ, or similar technologies.

• Hands-on experience with DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation tools (e.g., Ansible scripts, HELM charts).

• Proficiency in containerization and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift).

• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and hands-on experience using tools like JIRA and Confluence.

• Eagerness to share knowledge and mentor junior developers to promote best practices.

• Experience building and supporting transactional and financial systems.

Nice-to-have

• Domain expertise in SWIFT Payments and ISO20022 standards.

• Experience with Payment processing applications such as Payment Hubs, Wire Engine, Wire Room, etc.

• Knowledge of cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and distributed systems.

• Exposure to event-driven architectures and distributed systems.

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, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable.

• Leaders who support 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

• Opportunities to do challenging work.

• Access to a variety of job opportunities across business and geographies.

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Job Skills

Active Learning, Agile Methodology, Application Integrations, Application Maintenance, Applications Architecture, Detail-Oriented, Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Application Delivery, Group Problem Solving, IT Application Development, Java, Kubernetes, Programming Languages, Python Frameworks, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Systems Development Lifecycle (SDLC)

Additional Job Details

RBC CENTRE, 155 WELLINGTON ST W:TORONTOTORONTOCanada37.5Full timeCAPITAL MARKETSRegularSalaried2025-07-112025-07-25

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.