Full Stack Lead Engineer

FASTER PAYMENTS FULL STACK LEAD ENGINEER

WHAT IS THE OPPORTUNITY?

The Faster Payments Lead Full Senior Engineer is a working lead that provides functional guidance and coordinates the daily activities of individual contributors or working teams. The Lead 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. The Lead Full Stack Engineer is a working lead who solves complex problems and takes a broad perspective to identify solutions. The colleague in this position would be comfortable with the following activities: Evaluates application software packages and makes recommendations to senior management. Leads and participates with other colleagues in new product reviews, tests, and pilots. Collects and analyzes business requirements for large projects. Performs in-depth feasibility studies and translates complex requirements into an appropriate design.

What you will do

• Provides technical guidance to Members of the Team.
• May coordinate the daily activities of a team, assigns tasks, and sets priorities. Serves as the 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 in 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.
• Provide programming expertise and business analysis skills within a broad business area, usually as a senior member of a project team, in analyzing, designing, modifying, and developing business applications.
• Create and educate on programming specifications from which programs will be written, and design, code, test, debug, and document programs.
• Create and review programming documentation and recommend changes in development, maintenance, and application standards.
• Analyze and develop logical database designs, data models, and relational data definitions across multiple computing environments (e.g., host-based, distributed systems, client-server, etc.).
• Comply 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 in 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.
• Proficient in YAML, Java, J2EE, .NET, Apache Web Services, XML, and Restful-API/Kafka & event-driven integration capabilities.
• 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 and 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.

*To be considered for this position you must meet at least these basic qualifications.

The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.

Benefits and Perks

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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.