Associate Director, Lead Software Develope

Royal Bank of Canada•Jersey City, NJ

26d•Onsite

About The Position

RBC Capital Markets LLC seeks an Associate Director, Lead Software Developer with expertise in Algo containers for Credit Bond markets. This role involves working closely with the desk on Algo strategy integration, including electronic checks and validations. The position requires knowledge of market data such as Trace, CBBT, CP+, and TRAX for Algo integrations. Additionally, it demands integration expertise for various Credit Bond & CDX market eTrading client channels across TradeWeb, MarketAxess, BondPort, BondPoint, and TMC for institutional and retail channels in US and Europe markets. Responsibilities include handling single line RFQ, Algo trading, Aggressing or Portfolio trading from front to back, user interface integrations using FIX or other vendor APIs, and understanding various RFQ and Portfolio trading protocols. The role requires understanding detailed business requirements, proposing and discussing technical software designs, coding, performing development testing, building and releasing changes, and championing DevOps usage. Collaboration with a global development team (London, New York, Toronto, India), business analytics, and quality assurance is essential, including reviewing technical designs and code changes. Interaction with US and EUR Credit traders and FICC IT Support is also part of the role, along with providing timely responses to user issues and inquiries, and proactively identifying operational risks and control deficiencies.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field
7 years of progressively responsible experience with hands-on coding with Server & UI frameworks (full stack)
Proficiency in Java 17 and above with expertise in Java concurrency, virtual threads, JFR and GC Tuning
Hands-on coding experience with KDB, .Net, WPF, C#, HTML5, ReactJS, JavaScript
Hands-on coding in server-side Java, Messaging and Event processing across multiple streams
5 years of experience in Algo and Bond eTrading Front office applications
Experience coding with Solace, FIX protocols & ION API
Experience coding with relational DB (SQL Server, Sybase, Oracle)
Experience with DevoOs tools (Maven, Jenkins, Nexus, Artifactory)

Nice To Haves

Expertise in Algo containers for Credit Bond markets
Working closely with desk on Algo strategy integration
Exposure to all Electronic checks and validations
Knowledge of various market data like Trace, CBBT, CP+, TRAX for Algo integrations
Integration expertise for various Credit Bond & CDX market eTrading client channels across TradeWeb, MarketAxess, BondPort, BondPoint, TMC for institutional and retail channels across US and Europe markets
Experience with single line RFQ, Algo trading, Aggressing or Portfolio trading from front to back
Experience with user interface integrations using FIX or other vendor API
Knowledge of various RFQ and Portfolio trading protocols
Active Learning
Agile Methodology
Application Integrations
Detail-Oriented
Emerging Technologies
Enterprise Application Delivery
Group Problem Solving
Programming Languages
Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

Responsibilities

Understand detailed business requirements, propose and discuss technical software design for all assigned coding tasks.
Code, perform development testing, build and release changes.
Champion DevOps usage across all release artifacts.
Interact effectively with the global development team (Lon, NY, Tor, India) including business analytics and quality assurance by reviewing proposed technical design and code changes to global team members.
Interact with US and EUR Credit traders where appropriate and FICC IT Support in New York, Toronto & London in understanding requirements and issues.
Provide timely turnaround on issues and queries by responding to users and support on application functionality related issues and inquiries.
Proactively identify operational risks/ control deficiencies in the business.