
Lead Developer
Jersey City, NJ · HybridFull-time$193K/yrSeen 5 days agoSeen in employer's feed 5 days ago
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Job overview
RBC Capital Markets seeks a Lead Developer to deliver and modernize risk platforms for macro trading and risk workflows, including structured and flow rates and FX instruments. The role spans full-stack architecture, event-driven services, intraday calculations, Excel-integrated solutions, data processing, and AI/ML automation. It also involves mentoring engineers and leading technical roadmaps. Telecommuting is permitted up to one day per week.
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Compensation
$193,461.00 - $193,461.00 / Yearly
Hours Per Week
40
Number Of Positions
1
Shift
First Shift (Day)
Job Description
Lead Developer, RBC Capital Markets LLC, Jersey City, NJ:
Lead Risk platform delivery with full-stack architecture (Java/Spring Boot, Python, React/TypeScript). Design event-driven services for Profit and Loss (PnL) and risk limits. Build backend services for intraday calculation and snapshots. Develop Excel-integrated solutions using Excel-DNA to bridge between C# and COM applications. Application Programming Interface (API)/messaging (Kafka/Solace) for downstream consumers. Implement CI/CD pipelines, Spark processing, and S3/Iceberg data lakes. Support macro trading/risk workflows with focus on structured and flow rates/FX instruments. Mentor engineers and drive modernization. Evaluate and implement AI/ML automation.
Telecommuting permitted up to 1 day per week.
Full time employment, Monday – Friday, 40 hours per week, $193,461.00 per year.
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:
Must have a Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Information Technology or a related field and 5 years of related work experience.
Must have 5 years of experience in:
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Java and Spring Boot, performance tuning and reactive programming (RxJava, WebFlux or Reactor).
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Design patterns, data structures, and concurrency.
Must have 3 years of experience in:
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CI/CD pipeline engineering (Jenkins, Ansible, GitHub Actions, Elasticsearch, Kibana, Prometheus and Grafana).
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Containers and orchestration (Docker, Helm, Kubernetes and Argo CD).
Must have 2 years of experience in:
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Design fault-tolerant systems across multiple services/nodes, manage concurrent data flows to maintain data accuracy in high-throughput environments.
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React or TypeScript production UI platforms and real-time browser APIs.
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Messaging, event-driven architectures (Kafka, Solace, or RabbitMQ).
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.NET and C# development with Excel integration such as Excel-DNA, RTD servers and COM interop.
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Advanced SQL or schema optimization and query performance.
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Finance, including macro trading, structured and flow rates.
Must have 1 year of experience in:
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Lead cross-functional teams in the development and implementation of technical roadmaps for complex software platforms.
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FX and trade lifecycle.
TO APPLY: Visit rbc.com under “careers” and search for Requisition ID [# R-0000190322], and click “Apply”.
Place of Work
Hybrid
Requisition ID
R-0000190322
Job Type
Full Time
How this job compares
Set against the 40,846 open Software Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$193K/yr
- New Jersey median$135–206K/yr745 salary ranges
- US median$135–218K/yr32,482 salary ranges
This rate, $193K, is 15% above the New Jersey median midpoint ($168K) — in the middle half of Software Engineer salary ranges in New Jersey.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 861 open Software Engineer jobs in New Jersey and 40,846 across the US. 7% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in New Jersey
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Software Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (33,328 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 14,025 of the 40,846 open Software Engineer jobs (34%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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