Senior Full Stack Developer
Senior Full Stack Developer on RBC's PayEdge team in Burlington, building and maintaining a secure digital payments platform for businesses. Day to day spans PHP/Laravel and Angular front-end work, Java/Spring Boot services, MySQL database work, CI/CD automation, and on-call production support.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Burlington, Canada
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Category
- Fullstack
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
- 5+ years of experience with PHP, Laravel and SQL
- 5+ years hands-on experience with Angular, Java, REST APIs/Microservices, and Spring Framework (MVC, Security, JPA, Spring Boot)
- 5+ years of experience with RDBMS (MySQL, MSSQL), NoSQL (MongoDB), ELK and data streaming (Kafka)
- 5+ years of experience with front-end technologies such as JavaScript, HTML, CSS
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub, Vault, security scanning tools)
- Ability to work in an Agile environment
- Strong problem-solving skills with focus on clean coding practices and scalability
- Good communication and collaboration abilities
- Passion for technology and software development culture
- Willingness to perform off-hours production support (on-call rotation)
Nice to have
- Familiarity with architectural styles such as Microservices, React, or Event-driven systems
- Knowledge of modern front-end design trends and technologies
- Strong knowledge of Microservices architecture and API integration
- Deep understanding of API gateway and security protocols (JWT, OAuth, SSL certificates)
- Experience developing and troubleshooting distributed cloud applications (Azure AKS)
- Proficiency in CI/CD pipelines and testing automation tools
- Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and continuous improvement
Full description
What is the Opportunity?
Join our innovative PayEdge Technology team at RBC, where we're revolutionizing payment solution for businesses. We're seeking a talented Senior Full Stack Developer to help design, develop, and maintain our secure and high-performing digital platform. As a key player, you'll contribute to every stage of the software development life cycle, focusing on quality, maintainability, performance, and reliability. If you're a team-oriented developer with a strong technical foundation, excellent problem-solving skills, and proficiency in languages like Java, PHP, and frameworks such as Angular, Spring Boot, and Laravel, let's build the future of payments together.
What will you do?
- Be part of an Agile development team comprised of technical, product and business members to develop new services and enhance PayEdge client-facing applications following the best practices and using the latest technologies.
- Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code for front-end (PHP/Angular) and back-end (PHP/Spring Boot) applications. Ensure high code quality through automated unit and functional testing
- Modernize and refactor legacy systems to align with current technologies and architectural best practices
- Troubleshoot, debug and resolve production issues while driving application stability and performance through proactive enhancements and optimizations
- Develop, optimize, and maintain MySQL databases, including writing complex queries, stored procedures, and ensuring data integrity
- Debug production performance issues across services and levels of the stack and provide primary operational support
- Automate processes within the development pipeline; identify opportunities for efficiency gains and reducing time-to-market and enabling continuous delivery
- Perform production support role, including off-hours support (participating in an on-call rotation)
What Do You Need to Succeed?
Must haves:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
- 5+ years of experience with PHP, Laravel and SQL
- 5+ years of hands‑on experience with Angular, Java, REST APIs/Microservices, and Spring Framework (MVC, Security, JPA, Spring Boot)
- 5+ years of experience working with RDBMS, e.g. MySQL, MSSQL, NoSQL, e.g. MongoDB, ELK and data streaming technologies (Kafka)
- 5+ years of experience with front‑end technologies such as JavaScript, HTML, CSS
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub, Vault, Security scanning tools, etc.)
- Ability to work in an Agile environment
- Strong problem‑solving skills with a focus on clean coding practices and scalability
- Good communication and collaboration abilities.
- A passion for technology and a love of software development culture