Posted 11 days ago
Lead Senior Software Engineer
@ Royal Bank of Canada
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
Royal Bank of Canada is hiring a lead senior software engineer in Wealth Management Technology in Toronto, full time at 37.5 hours a week. The role leads an agile squad and hands-on Java development of cloud-based backend trading products, integrating with RBC and external vendor systems.
Responsibilities:
- Lead design and hands-on development of trading backend products
- Lead an agile squad through sprints and backlog delivery
- Plan and estimate product work packages
- Review designs, code and technical specifications
- Provide third-level product support
Requirements summary:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent
- 10+ years of hands-on cloud software development
- Hands-on experience with OpenShift, Java and Spring
- Experience with Kafka, REST and microservices
- Experience with CI/CD and observable solutions (SRE)
Tools & skills
Source and dates
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- Employer posting date
- 2026-10-26
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-13
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-27
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Job details
| Seniority | Lead |
| Department | Software development |
| Experience | 10+ years |
| Hours per week | 37.5 |
| Travel | air: none · ground: none |
| Work setting | Office |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English |
| Education | Bachelor’s degree (required) |
| Fields of study | Computer Science |
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Royal Bank of Canada
Stock listing: TSX:RY · NYSE:RY · Source checked: 2026-11-02
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Full company description
Royal Bank of Canada is a global financial institution with a purpose-driven, principles-led approach to delivering leading performance. Our success comes from the 94,000+ employees who leverage their imaginations and insights to bring our vision, values and strategy to life so we can help our clients thrive and communities prosper. As Canada's biggest bank and one of the largest in the world, based on market capitalization, we have a diversified business model with a focus on innovation and providing exceptional experiences to our more than 17 million clients in Canada, the U.S. and 27 other countries. Learn more at rbc.com. We are proud to support a broad range of community initiatives through donations, community investments and employee volunteer activities. See how at www.rbc.com/community-social-impact. http://rbc.com/legalstuff. La Banque Royale du Canada est une institution financière mondiale définie par sa raison d'être, guidée par des principes et orientée vers l'excellence en matière de rendement. Notre succès est attribuable aux quelque 94 000+ employés qui mettent à profit leur créativité et leur savoir faire pour concrétiser notre vision, nos valeurs et notre stratégie afin que nous puissions contribuer à la prospérité de nos clients et au dynamisme des collectivités. Selon la capitalisation boursière, nous sommes la plus importante banque du Canada et l'une des plus grandes banques du monde. Nous avons adopté un modèle d'affaires diversifié axé sur l'innovation et l'offre d'expériences exceptionnelles à nos plus de 17 millions de clients au Canada, aux États Unis et dans 27 autres pays. Pour en savoir plus, visitez le site rbc.com/francais Nous sommes fiers d'appuyer une grande diversité d'initiatives communautaires par des dons, des investissements dans la collectivité et le travail bénévole de nos employés. Pour de plus amples renseignements, visitez le site www.rbc.com/collectivite-impact-social. https://www.rbc.com/conditions-dutilisation/
- LinkedIn followers
- 932,626
- People associated on LinkedIn
- 96,867
- Reported office locations
- 200 Bay Street, Toronto, Ontario M5J 2J5, CA
- 1 Place Ville-Marie, Montreal, QC H3B 1Z3, CA
- 2 Park St, Sydney, NSW 2000, AU
- 100 Bishopsgate, London, England EC2N 4AA, GB
- Persiaran Apec, Cyberjaya, Selangor 63000, MY
- 60 S 6th St, Minneapolis, MN 55402, US
- Business categories
- Wealth Management
- Commercial Lending
- Finance
- Banking
- Payments
- Asset Management
- Insurance
- Lending
- Financial Services
- Financial Exchanges
- Other recorded names
- Royal Bank of Canada
- RBC
- Specialties
- finance
- banking
- investing
- insurance
- financial planning
- wealth management
- and capital markets
- Profile identifies a recruitment agency
- No
- Reported total investment
- 22,251,000
Currency and observation date were not supplied; this is not a current valuation or a funding round.
Royal Bank of Canada is a global financial institution with a purpose-driven, principles-led approach to delivering leading performance. Our success comes from the 94,000+ employees who leverage their imaginations and insights to bring our vision, values and strategy to life so we can help our clients thrive and communities prosper. As Canada's biggest bank and one of the largest in the world, based on market…
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Industry | Banking |
| Company size | 10,001+ employees |
| Headquarters | Toronto, Ontario |
| Organization type | Public Company |
| Specialties | financebankinginvestinginsurancefinancial planningwealth managementand capital markets |
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 1,078 |
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Job Description
Be a part of a team, Wealth Management Technology, to build and transform Backend Trading products for our clients. You will be heavily involved in shaping our RBC technology landscape, delivering key business values for our clients. Assist with integrating, extending our trading services, working with other trading applications and partners, within RBC and Capital Markets, and external vendor partners. We are looking for a lead senior software engineer, a seasoned technologist to build cutting-edge, products and solutions in cloud environments. You'll join a very dynamic, agile team to build brand new innovative products and solutions, to extend and transform existing services for quality client experiences. We operate in a dynamic, agile working environment, while leveraging the strength of innovative technology of RBC as a leading North American bank.
What Will You Do?
- As a Senior Java Software Engineer, collaborate with Solution Architects, Software Engineers, and others. You will lead the design and hands-on development of innovative, high performing trading solutions, build new and enhance existing trading products, integrating with other RBC systems vendor products. This role will encompass delivering Trading Backend products and services.
- As a Squad Lead, closely collaborate with Scrum Masters, lead agile team to manage and build, deliver from product backlogs. Provide planning and estimation of product work packages to meet user requirements and objectives within budget and on time. Work through sprints, leading the squad in their activities/tasks required in designing, building and unit testing products, delivery of products to QA and Production.
- Working with software engineers to analyse user needs, design and build products from business requirements. Lead in designs, solutions, adherence to technical roadmaps and solution architectures, creating and reviewing technical specifications, validation of designs, code implementations, reviewing tests, and code walkthroughs.
- Collaborate and incorporate inputs from cross-functional teams (product owners, compliance, security, DevOps, trading specialist, back office operations, quality engineers, solution architects)
- Deliver high quality, high performance, and highly observable solutions
- Provide third-level support of products as required
What Do You Need To Succeed?
Must Have
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent.
- 10+ years in hands-on development of software solutions in cloud environment.
- Hands-on experience with OpenShift, Java, Spring Frameworks
- Experience with LINUX/AIX
- Applied understanding of Microservices, RESTful APIs and Event Driven Designs
- Hands-on expertise in container deployments for Microservices
- Hands-on experience with building highly testable solutions and code quality metrics, using test Containers, Test automation, Simulators.
- Solid understanding and experience of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery CI/CD, GitHub, Actions, scanners
- Experience delivering highly observable solutions (SRE),
- Experience with delivering distributed messaging solutions using KAFKA
- Experience with REST, APIGEE, IBM MQ, HTTPS, XSLT, XML, AVRO
- Experience with OpenShift, Kubernetes deployments
- Experience with MS SQL, MongoDB
- AI Tools experience leveraging GENAI, MCP, Skills, Agentic AI tools to build and enhance applications.
Nice to Have
- Trading business domain knowledge, experience with Equity, Options, Mutual Funds and Fixed Income Securities.
- Experience with/Understanding of FIX v4.2, v4.4
- Experience with/Understanding of Test-Driven Development (TDD)
- Experience with/Understanding of REDIS, GRIDGAIN
- Experience with/Understanding of Design Thinking, XP, Domain Driven Design (DDD), UI/UX
- Experience with/Understanding of Launch Darkly
- Experience with C/C++/C#, Golang, Python, DB2
- Experience with/Understanding of Sybase, Postgres SQL, MYSQL,
- Experience with/Understanding of Windows, AIX, HP NonStop,
- Experience with/Understanding of QUARKUS, JBOSS, TOMCAT, VITRIA. PATHWAY, Experience with/Understanding of RABBITMQ, SOAP, XML, JSON, WebSockets, ProtoBuf, APIGEE, GRAPHQL, S3, Launch Darkly
What’s in it for you?
We thrive on the challenge to be our best, innovate, transform, 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.
- Network and build lasting relationships with others from diverse backgrounds from across Canada
- Leaders who support your development through coaching and learning opportunities
- Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive and highly performing team
- Ability to make a difference and lasting impact
- Opportunities to do challenging work and grow your career
- Enjoy a comfortable work environment with the option to dress casually
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Job Skills
Active Learning, Agile Methodology, Application Integrations, Detail-Oriented, Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Application Delivery, Group Problem Solving, Programming Languages, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)Additional Job Details
Address:
RBC CENTRE, 155 WELLINGTON ST W:TORONTOCity:
TorontoCountry:
CanadaWork hours/week:
37.5Employment Type:
Full timePlatform:
TECHNOLOGY AND OPERATIONSJob Type:
RegularPay Type:
SalariedPosted Date:
2026-10-13Application Deadline:
2026-11-13Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above
Our Employment Opportunities
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.
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