Senior Full Stack Developer, GFT - Halifax

What is the opportunity?

Are you a talented, creative and results-driven professional who thrives on delivering high-performing applications for the Audit IT portfolio, then please come join us!

Global Functions Technology (GFT) is part of RBC’s Technology and Operations division. GFT’s impact is far-reaching as we collaborate with partners from across the company to deliver innovative and transformative IT solutions. Our clients represent Risk, Finance, HR, CAO, Audit, Legal, Compliance, Financial Crime, Capital Markets, Personal and Commercial Banking and Wealth Management. We also lead the development of digital tools and platforms to enhance collaboration.

We believe that innovation should drive all that we do, in challenging assumptions and being big and bold with our ideas. We support our people in developing the technical, business and professional skills needed to be successful. You will work with partners from across the company, participate in networking events, and have access to a wide variety of supports including mentorship. You will work directly with leaders who believe in celebrating successes and sharing learnings with other teams to promote progress.

What will you do?

• Designing, coding, analyzing, and modifying programming systems, including encoding, testing, debugging and installing for a large-scale system
• Contribute to technical design, development, and implementation of applications
• Design, build, and maintain APIs, Microservices and Responsive web applications by leveraging best practices alongside a global development team
• Integrate applications with 3rd party tools and deploy to cloud services
• Implement effective automation testing strategies along with the build activities
• Ensure code quality, performance, scalability, responsiveness of applications
• Work with technology vendors and own relationships with them to drive seamless delivery of dependent applications
• Conduct and contribute to design and code reviews ensuring our apps are scalable, testable, and maintainable
• Participate in post-implementation reviews of application, development, and processes, continually working to create a learning environment by sharing with others
• Work in an Agile team environment which is fast paced, fun and collaborative
• Ensuring the operating efficiency of existing application systems. Maintaining records for the documentation of systems development and revisions
• Conducting analyses of organizational needs and goals for the development and implementation of application systems
• Working with different RBC internal teams for software feature delivery, support and bug fixes
• Stay current and competitive by keeping up to date with the latest platform capabilities, security, performance, and reusability

What do you need to succeed?
 

Must-have

• 3+ years’ experience with Vue.js, Node.js, React, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python
• 3+ years’ experience using and developing RESTful APIs and microservices.
• 3+ years’ experience using relational database management system and fluent with SQL
• Knowledge of developing distributed cloud applications (Azure, OpenShift, Docker); Hands on experience designing, developing, testing and troubleshooting RESTful API and interface specifications (Swagger, SOAP)
• Knowledge of security gateways and protocols (JWT, OAuth2.0, OIDC, SSL Certificates)
• Full software development life-cycle experience with CI/CD and thorough testing prior to release
• Understanding of Agile and Relational Databases

Nice-to-have

• Knowledge of major architectures style (message oriented, reactive, event based)
• Micro-service architecture, design, and implementation (load balancing, discovery, resiliency) 
• Good eye for UX design and being able to collaborate closely with our UX designers.
• Knowledge of modern SaaS platforms for Platform Analytics, Monitoring, UX, and Management (Google Analytics, Firebase, and others)

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

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Job Skills

Application Development, Application Integrations, Application Maintenance, Applications Architecture, Detail-Oriented, DevOps, Enterprise Application Delivery, Group Problem Solving, Node.js, Programming Languages, Python (Programming Language), Relational Database, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Structured Query Language (SQL), System Applications, TypeScript, User Interface Development, Vuejs

Additional Job Details

175 WESTERN PKY:BEDFORDBedfordCanada37.5Full timeTECHNOLOGY AND OPERATIONSRegularSalaried2026-01-162026-02-13

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.

RBC is presently inviting candidates to apply for this existing vacancy. Applying to this posting allows you to express your interest in this current career opportunity at RBC. Qualified applicants may be contacted to review their resume in more detail.