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Toronto, CanadaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable, high-performance REST and/or GraphQL APIs.
- Collaborate with product managers, architects, engineers, infrastructure teams, and DevOps teams on API specifications, deployment, monitoring, and CI/CD.
- Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code and conduct code reviews.
- Optimize API performance, scalability, and reliability through continuous monitoring and improvement.
- Develop and maintain technical documentation and API specifications.
- Integrate internal systems with third-party applications and services.
- Implement security standards, authentication, and authorization mechanisms such as OAuth 2.0, JWT, and API keys.
- Contribute across the software development life cycle and support a culture of technical excellence.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 5+ years of professional software development experience, including at least 4 years focused on API development.
- Expert-level proficiency in at least one of Java, Python, Go, or Node.js.
- Deep understanding of API design patterns, REST principles, and HTTP protocols.
- Strong experience with relational SQL databases and NoSQL data stores.
- Proficiency with Git and CI/CD pipelines.
- Expertise in unit testing, integration testing, and debugging.
- Strong problem-solving, communication, collaboration, and independent-working skills.
- Ability to work in an Agile environment.
- Preferred experience with microservices, event-driven architecture, API gateways, API management platforms, high-volume or mission-critical APIs, financial data exchange standards, caching, messaging, and asynchronous processing.
Benefits
- Comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits.
- Competitive compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable.
- Development support through coaching and management opportunities.
- World-class training program in financial services.
- Flexible work/life balance options.
- Full-time regular employment with 37.5 work hours per week in Toronto.
- Opportunities to perform challenging work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team.
About RBC
Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) provides personal and commercial banking, payments, mortgages, investing, wealth management, insurance, and capital markets services to consumers, businesses, and institutions. The public company, headquartered in Toronto and founded in 1864, serves more than 17 million clients across Canada, the U.S., and other global markets. Revenue comes from interest income, fees, advisory, and trading across its diversified financial services businesses, and it is Canada’s largest bank by market capitalization.