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As a Lead Software Engineer on the Advice Centre Engineering Team, you will architect and lead the design, development, and delivery of enterprise-scale applications and backend services that enable real-time audio streaming, transcription, and AI-powered summarization. You’ll drive RBC’s broader AI strategy by championing technical excellence and mentoring engineering teams to deliver solutions that enhance advisor efficiency and transform how our advisors interact with clients.

This is a strategic technical leadership role where you’ll guide innovative audio and AI capabilities from concept through production at scale, setting technical direction, fostering best practices, and working across modern web technologies and cloud infrastructure to build resilient, scalable systems that deliver measurable business impact.

WHAT WILL YOU DO?

Lead technical strategy and architecture for multi-tier architecture applications that handle real-time audio processing and transcription at enterprise scale, establishing patterns and best practices across the team

Design and oversee backend services and frontend applications that seamlessly integrate audio streaming, real-time transcription, and generative AI-powered summarization capabilities

Mentor and guide software engineers in the team, conducting code reviews, fostering technical excellence, and developing engineering talent

Drive agile execution across sprints, leading technical prioritization, balancing requirements, aligning deliverables with business objectives, and removing technical blockers

Champion modern development practices including AI coding tools (Copilot, Windsurf, Claude), code quality standards, and productivity acceleration techniques

Design resilient, observable, and scalable systems from the ground up, establishing monitoring, alerting, and observability frameworks to ensure production reliability across all services

Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders including product, architecture, and platform teams to align technical decisions with organizational strategy

WHAT DO YOU NEED TO SUCCEED? Must-have:

Post-secondary education in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field, or equivalent professional software development experience (7+ years with 3+ in senior/lead capacity)

Proven ability to lead and mentor engineering teams, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning

Advanced proficiency in Type Script, Node.js, and modern frontend frameworks (React), with extensive hands‑on experience building desktop applications using Electron.js

Proven experience architecting systems using AWS Transcribe Streaming, including Web Socket integration, audio encoding formats (PCM/Opus), and streaming response handling

Expert knowledge of authentication patterns including OAuth 2.0/OIDC and secure token management

Advanced understanding of…