Senior Manager, Back-End Development

What is the Opportunity?

As part of a major payment modernization initiative, Royal Bank of Canada is seeking a hands-on Senior Manager to lead a team of backend developers while actively contributing to code development for our next-generation payment engine. In this dual-role position (50% people leadership, 50% hands-on development), you will manage and mentor your team while personally designing and building critical components of a robust, scalable, and resilient backend system. You will code alongside your team, creating high-performance, event-driven microservices using Java and Spring Boot, while developing talent and driving team performance to shape the future of our core payment processing capabilities.

What You'll Do

• Manage a team of backend developers while actively contributing hands-on to development work, providing coaching, performance management, and career development

• Provide expert technical leadership through both code contributions and mentorship, working hands-on with the team on complex technical challenges

• Balance people management responsibilities with active development work, collaborating with business stakeholders to translate strategic objectives into technical solutions

• Lead by example through hands-on coding while facilitating cross-functional collaboration and building a high-performing team culture

• Maintain strong hands-on coding skills and contribute to production codebase regularly

What You Need to Succeed?

Must Have:

• 5-7+ years of backend development experience

• Strong hands-on experience with Java and Spring Boot framework

• Deep understanding of microservices architecture and distributed systems

• Practical experience with reactive and event-based programming

• Proficiency with RESTful API design, Git, and CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins)

• Strong experience with automated testing (e.g., JUnit, Mockito)

• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies

Nice-to-Have:

• 2-4+ years of people management experience leading technical teams (3-8 developers)

• Experience with messaging systems like IBM MQ or Apache Kafka

• Knowledge of microservice resiliency patterns (circuit breakers, back pressure)

• Familiarity of Spec-Kit

• Familiarity with Docker, containerization (Kubernetes/OpenShift), and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)

• Experience with monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Splunk, Dynatrace, ELK stack)

• Knowledge of the banking or financial services domain, especially payment systems

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

• Opportunities to do challenging work

• Opportunities to take on progressively greater accountabilities

• Opportunities to building close relationships with clients

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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

180 WELLINGTON ST W:TORONTOTorontoCanada37.5Full timeTECHNOLOGY AND OPERATIONSRegularSalaried2026-08-062026-10-09

Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above

Our Employment Opportunities

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