Senior Front End Developer

The Company

At RBC, our culture is deeply supportive and rich in opportunity and reward. You will help our clients thrive and our communities prosper, empowered by a spirit of shared purpose.

Whether you’re helping clients find new opportunities, developing new technology, or providing expert advice to internal partners, you will be doing work that matters in the world, in an environment built on teamwork, service, responsibility, diversity, and integrity.

Role Summary

RBC Royal Bank is seeking a Senior Front End Software Engineer for our US Cash Management Technology. This is a green field project to build a brand-new system to serve our corporate clients. You will be heavily involved in shaping the future technology landscape of RBC, by delivering key business values for a transformational project in our Banking Technology while implementing strategic components servicing across all RBC functions defined in our roadmap.

We are looking for a skilled React.js developer to join our front-end development team working on building a Developer Portal. We are building multiple micro-services which will be used by our clients as well internal developers. To make their work more engaging and fun, as well as more productive, we are building a developer portal based on backstage.io that serves as a daily cockpit for engineers. The developer portal is an open, highly extensible platform powered by a centralized service catalog. It creates transparency of our service landscape by making services discoverable and by surfacing related metadata and resources like documentation, deployments, pipelines, or sandbox environments. It provides team pages as entry points for developers that show the team's services and their health in terms of operations, cost, and security, as well as API-based metrics.

What will you do?

• Designing and coding application programs; performing testing for developed applications.
• Conducting analyses of organizational needs and goals for the development and implementation of application systems.
• Building developer portal web application based on backstage.io which used React.js for front-end and node.js (typescript) for backend.
• Monitoring adherence to quality standards in the development and implementation of production applications.
• Evaluating and reviewing products and processes.
• Assisting in planning and estimation new programs and projects. Helping to establish quality standards to be universally applied throughout the site, recommending quality improvements.

Requirements

• Skilled in React.js, Node.js, Typescript, NPM, and CSS/SCSS.General understanding of web application and API architecture patterns.
• You write clean, test-driven code and can mentor others to do so.
• You are comfortable with DevOps/SRE practices and are familiar with popular observability tooling.You can work with Relational database (MSSQL, Oracle, for example) and/or NoSQL document databases (e.g., MongoDB).
• Understanding and experience with one commercial cloud solutions such as Azure with Kubernetes(preferred), GCP, AWS.Knowledge and experience with DevOps/CICD pipelines and tools such as JIRA, GitHub
• Knowledge of working with any API Gateway ( for e.g. Apigee)

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