Technical Team Lead

RBC • Toronto, ON

5d • Onsite

About The Position

We are looking for an experienced Technical Leader and Staff Developer to join the Mobile Services team. Your expertise will lead the design, development and maintenance of Services developed with Java and Spring Boot on platforms such as OpenShift, Azure, and other Cloud Platforms, providing service integration, authentication & application session management as well HTTP Webview integration for mobile applications. As a technical team lead you'll be responsible to lead developers to making the right choices and guiding the product development to achieve performance, security and resiliency.

Requirements

• B.S. degree in Computer Science or equivalent technical experience.
• 6+ years of experience leading technical delivery teams in mid to large IT organizations.
• 4+ years of experience with a backend or frontend development language (Java/Node, JavaScript).
• Proficient in Java development with Springboot
• Experience with Azure, Openshift cloud platforms and containerized deployments with Docker
• Excellent communication, including the ability to simplify technical details into human terms, and interact with non-technical parties such as product owners and business analysts.
• Understanding of software design best practices, including design patterns

Responsibilities

• Lead a back-end service developers across 2-3 squads within a specific area of the mobile application.
• Be a trusted technical partner to your squad's Product team, helping to solution, size, prioritize, and guide product features development, product maintenance and evolution.
• Be responsible for translating business into technical requirements and a well-defined story backlog.
• Leverage expertise from backend developers to assess technical complexity and decide on best technical approach.
• Collaborate with development practice and architecture to ensure technical solution alignment.
• Build relationships with other technology groups and manage technical dependencies.
• Ensure a clear working "contract" is established between your team and partner teams in terms of technical dependencies, timelines, responsibilities, and deliverables.
• Be accountable for delivering and supporting features in production, ensuring quality controls are in place.
• Work with your team to harden, monitor, troubleshoot and resolve issues in production.
• Be accountable for the quality of code delivered by your team, and reinforcing best practices related to testing and "shifting left".
• Be responsible for your team health and work culture.
• Provide support and coaching for members of your team.
• Champion a diverse and inclusive team culture

Benefits

• bonuses
• flexible benefits
• competitive compensation
• commissions
• 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
• Flexible work/life balance options
• Opportunities to do challenging work
• Opportunities to take on progressively greater accountabilities
• Access to a variety of job opportunities across business and geographies

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level