Real Time Payments- Lead Full Stack Engineer

LEAD FULL STACK ENGINEER - Real Time Payments

WHAT IS THE OPPORTUNITY?

The Faster Payments Lead Full Stack Engineer is a working lead that provides functional guidance and may coordinate the daily activities of individual contributors or working teams. The Lead also is an advanced senior professional with wide-ranging experience who uses various concepts and in-depth evaluation to resolve complex issues in creative and effective ways. The Lead Full Stack Engineer develops and leads Team Members in developing both front-end and back-end solutions. Designs, develops, updates/maintains solutions and provides technical guidance to other Team Members. At this level the main challenge is to support junior Team Members to identify causes and implement solutions to complex business problems in a multifunctional project, assessing and communicating issues of technology impact on the business.

What you will do

• Provides technical guidance to Members of the Team
• May coordinate the daily activities of a team. Assigns tasks, sets priorities. Serves as first point of contact to individual contributors before escalating to management.
• Help lead in the design and development of cross-functional, multi-platform application systems.
• Write great quality code with a drive for automated testing and validation based on the You Build You Own (YBYO) model.
• Perform complex engineering activities for performance tuning, monitoring, deployment and production support.
• Research, influence and implement vendor dependency to simplify the architecture.
• Implement, maintain and update CI/CD pipelines on a cloud environment.
• Collaborate with business partners, architects and other groups to identify complex technical and functional needs of systems based on priority.
• Collaborate with multiple, enterprise-wide distributed performing teams to deliver new capabilities in business applications.
• Design and develop APIs for Omni-channel clients.
• Build APIs and UIs to help make use of large data sets, infrastructure and user experience.
• Own the full lifecycle for web software development, from ideas to production.
• Provides programming expertise and business analysis skills within broad business area, usually as a senior member of a project team, in analyzing, designing, modifying, and developing business applications.
• Creates and educates on programming specifications from which programs will be written, and designs, codes, tests, debugs, and documents programs.
• Create and review programming documentation and recommend changes in development, maintenance and application standards.
• Analyzes and develops logical database designs, data models and relational data definitions across multiple computing environments (e.g., host-based, distributed systems, client-server, etc.)
• Complies with architectural standards and established methodologies and practices.

Must-Have*

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent
• Minimum of 12+ years of software development experience
• Minimum of 8+ years of experience: Java, .NET, Python
• Minimum of 8+ years coordinating team efforts in a project or operations environment
• Minimum of 5+ years experience with databases and data modeling/design (SQL and NoSQL)

Skills and Knowledge

• Minimum of 5+ years in full stack development for cloud solutions (Azure or AWS) - Azure preferred
• The full stack engineers for Commercial Technology will be proficient in YAML, Java, J2EE, .NET, Apache Web Services, XML, and Restful-API/Kafka & event-driven integration capabilities.
• This engineer will need to be very proficient in managing large sets of data, including excellent proficiency with ANSI-SQL querying structured and unstructured data sources (Snowflake, Oracle, SQL, No-SQL).
• Conduct Code-Reviews, and Peer Reviews.
• Ability to assess logs. Ability to solve complex performance issues.
• Experience with ELK, and other logging capabilities.
• Experience building integration with third-party solution providers for software-as-a-service, managed service, and commercial-off-the-shelf solutions.
• Operate as the functional lead for a team of engineers supporting the Faster Payments Technology Function that includes Real Time Payments and FedNow Payments.
• This role is part of the Commercial Technology and Innovation organization reporting to the Faster Payments Technology Manager.

Compensation

Starting base salary: $111,408 - $189,738 per year. Exact compensation may vary based on skills, experience, and location. This job is eligible for bonus and/or commissions.

Benefits and Perks

At City National, we strive to be the best at whatever we do, including the benefits and perks we offer our colleagues. Get an inside look at our Benefits and Perks.

INCLUSION AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYMENT
City National Bank is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other basis protected by law.

ABOUT CITY NATIONAL

We start with a basic premise: Business is personal. Since day one we've always gone further than the competition to help our clients, colleagues and community flourish. City National Bank was founded in 1954 by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs and that legacy of integrity, community and unparalleled client relationships continues to drive phenomenal growth today. City National is a subsidiary of Royal Bank of Canada, one of North America's leading diversified financial services companies.