Job Description

RBC Ventures Inc., a subsidiary of the Royal Bank of Canada, is going beyond banking to create meaningful solutions that touch every Canadian. We are building new ventures, acquiring growing firms, making investments, and partnering with organizations that share our vision. The results are products and services that solve problems and make lives better. For more information, visit RBCVentures.ca.

About Ownr

At Ownr, we have helped thousands of Canadians establish their businesses. As we redefine the entrepreneurship landscape, we take pride in simplifying what it takes to be a business owner. We're on a mission to become the leading platform for entrepreneurship in Canada, and it takes an entire team to build something big. So join our team and discover how we can help entrepreneurs make their dreams a reality

We are looking for a talented engineer and passionate team player to join the Ownr team as a Lead Software Engineer. You'll join a scaling team, designing the next evolution of our platform as we move to provide extensive new capabilities to business owners and work alongside a close-knit group of ambitious engineers, product managers, and designers.

Your experience will help set the technical direction of our applications, infrastructure, and pipelines and help our team define how we will leverage the latest tooling and best practices. As part of a young and growing team, you will have daily opportunities to lead and mentor other developers, exercising your skills as a seasoned technical leader, uniquely in both startup and enterprise environments.

What will you do?

Work with a team of skilled JavaScript developers to create a rapidly evolving consumer-facing platform.

Provide technical leadership and hands-on contribution of the software that supports the business and for monitoring and maintaining that software in production.

Establish the patterns, architecture, and practices that the team will follow in building modern and best-in-class software.

Build scalable production applications and help scale our existing apps

Work with modern tooling throughout, whether that's something currently part of our stack, or something new that you assess needs to be added to reliably deliver the desired user experience.

Architect, code, test and implement full-stack solutions to meet business needs.

Be responsible for finding opportunities to iteratively improve our technology, paying down technical debt as a habit.

About you

You embrace an owner's mindset: continually striving to make an impact; investing time, energy, and capital as if they were your own; and understanding that no part of the business is outside the scope of your position.

You have formed clear opinions about how different development patterns and practices can both negatively and positively impact your ability to be productive in a codebase, and by extension, the reliability of a business software platform. You have shared and coached team members on the basis of this experience.

You have significant experience running production software and working with modern infrastructure and pipelines. You can quickly grok a complex application landscape but also strive to simplify where possible.

You innately understand web/application security and the importance of data privacy.

You keep yourself up to date on the latest trends in the ever-changing open source development space and understand where they should (or shouldn't) be applied in the team's context.

You behave proactively when confronted with unforeseen challenges and complexity in your projects. Your team members can clearly understand the state of your work, your delivery plans, and your ideas for improving the business' software, technology processes, and team culture.

What do you need to succeed?

Must have

6+ years of solid hands-on programming experience, with a sizable portion in JavaScript, TypeScript, GraphQL, React, and Postgres.

Experience planning, documenting, implementing, and maintaining scaled web applications in production.

Experience working with and setting up modern software development best practices (source control, automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, Docker, declarative infrastructure, etc.).

Experience building production systems, with an understanding of the deployment, monitoring, and security best practices required to run production software.

Nice to have

Post-secondary degree or diploma in a computer or design-related program.

Experience building software in a startup environment and/or within the open-source ecosystem

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

A world-class training program in financial services

Flexible work/life balance options

Opportunities to do challenging work

RBC requires as a condition of employment that all successful candidates in the United States and Canada be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 prior to their start date, and may require proof of the same. Reasonable accommodation is available where required by law