Associate Director, Developer Low Latency Trading Systems

Job Description

RBC Capital Markets LLC seeks an Associate Director, Developer Low Latency Trading Systems in Jersey City, NJ to support and improve trading platforms (Order Management, Market Data, Trade workflow, etc.) for Equities and Equity derivatives. Develop, enhance and maintain core server applications for trading across various desks such as Flow Trading, Delta One and Structured Products. Build new tools to improve Trading and Sales initiatives, increase process efficiency and decrease operational risk. Implement services for trading such as market data, order management, messaging layer, security reference data systems, position keeping systems, and services for user interfaces (C++, Python). Partner with quants, traders, and other stake holders to design, implement and test technology used in trading. Contribute to DevOps (continuous integration pipeline, code quality tools, release methodologies). Hybrid remote work permitted.

Requirements: Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related field, plus 5 years of experience building highly performant, low-latency, distributed systems on Linux platforms, including multithreading, concurrent programming, and performance optimization. 5 years of experience with the following: C, C++, Python, Shell and relational databases MariaDB, MS SQL, Oracle, or equivalent; Financial market data and trading systems, including global market data feeds, Reuters, Bloomberg, OPRA, CTA/UTP, or equivalent; DevOps technologies, including CI/CD pipelines, configuration management, containerization, and cloud environments; trade lifecycle, risk management concepts, and regulatory requirements, as well as collaborating with quants, traders, and cross-functional teams.

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The salary for this job is $225,000 per year.  This salary does not include other elements of total compensation, including a discretionary bonus and benefits such as a 401(k) program with company-matching contributions; health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance; and paid time-off plan.

RBC’s compensation philosophy and principles recognize the importance of a highly qualified global workforce and plays a critical role in attracting, engaging and retaining talent that:

• Drives RBC’s high-performance culture;
• Enables collective achievement of our strategic goals; and
• Generates sustainable shareholder returns and above market shareholder value.

Job Skills

Active Learning, Agile Methodology, Application Integrations, Detail-Oriented, Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Application Delivery, Group Problem Solving, Programming Languages, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

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Posted Date:

2026-04-13

Application Deadline:

2026-06-22

Note : Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above

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