Lead Software Developer

Job Description

Job Description What is the opportunity? Global Functions Technology (GFT) helps RBC functions & businesses achieve business objectives through app development & technology support. We’re also the center of excellence for employee social collaboration & mobile apps, and also build apps that support managing the risk of the bank. We’re building a team that embraces innovation and enthusiasm to bring a fresh perspective. We’ve been on journeys to build out high performing, highly resilient technology platforms that can grow with the continuous demands from Group Risk, Human Resources, Chief Administrative Office & Audit, Capital Markets, P&CB and Wealth. We’re looking for talented and passionate Lead Software Developer to join our team. With a developer mind-set you will work as part of an agile team to deliver high performing applications built on cloud platforms with streaming technologies. We believe in continuous growth and expanding your capabilities. Join our team today and have a big impact influencing the strength of our advanced insight and analytics. This team is involved in several project scopes, so there are a variety of projects to get involved in! What will you do? Lead, Develop and support highly scalable, high performance components 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 Contribute in application design and develop code structures to promote reusability across many applications Be open-minded and look beyond your stack to solve complex problems Proactively seek out knowledge about new technologies and how they can be used to solve current and foreseeable challenges Communicate effectively with peers and distil technical details into human terms What do you need to succeed? Must Have: 7 years of professional software development experience delivering highly scalable, high performance applications with core skillsets including Java, J2EE, Spring / REST / Microservices, Linux and SQL Experience developing secure server side services leveraging the following APIs: Spring, Spring Batch/Boot/Integration, RESTful Webservices and Apache Data Utilities (JSON, Avro, CSV/PSV, Parquet). Experience in designing and building scalable, cloud-ready services following microservice architecture principles, lead and contribute during technical design discussions and requirement clarifications. Experience working with various caching technologies (Ignite/Redis etc.) and NoSQL/SQL databases Good knowledge on messaging/streaming technologies like MQ, Kafka etc. Experience using DevOps, CD/CI tools- Jenkins, GitHub, Maven, Automated Testing tools, or similar tools while collaborating with the software development team Ability to manage and closely work with team members including developers, business analysts and quality engineering. N

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