Lead Software Engineer

Overview

What is the Opportunity?

Our clients rely on us to move money efficiently and securely. We want our commercial clients and internal partners to experience seamless, intelligent payment solutions that simplify complexity. We're investing in technologies and data insights to evolve as payment demands do. We've joined our product, design and technology teams to collaborate to deliver innovative, reliable payment solutions. Being a part of our Team means you'll join a culture of creativity, curiosity, and continuous learning.

We're envisioning the future of payments and building the core platforms to support it. The team is focused on understanding our clients  needs to deliver scalable, automated payment solutions that handle massive transaction volumes with precision. 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 clients' payment journeys by building a unified orchestration platform, custom tailored to their unique needs.

We're looking for a talented and passionate Lead Software Engineer to join our team. Our team is a high-performing, proven delivery squad with cross-platform expertise, designed to deliver products throughout the payment lifecycle, not projects. Each squad is set up for agility and continuous delivery, 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 internal payment applications;

built on a modern 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 help shape the future of global payments.

• You will be creating new services and internal 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

Must Haves

• 5+ years experience with Java 8+ and Spring Framework (Spring Boot)
• 5+ years experience developing distributed cloud applications (Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Open Shift, Docker)
• Hands on experience using orchestration frameworks (Camunda)
• Hands on experience designing, developing, testing and troubleshooting RESTful API and interface specifications (Swagger, RAML, SOAP)
• Experience working with Dev Ops pipelines (Git, Maven, Jenkins), continuous integration/delivery, automated testing (unit, functional, performance)
• Experience working with security gateways and protocols (JWT, Oauth
  2.0, 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.
• Experience leveraging AI-assisted development tools to enhance productivity and code quality
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