Senior Equity Finance Tech Lead (Delta One)

RBC; New York (NY); On-site; USD 210,000 - 275,000; Full time

Job summary

RBC in New York is seeking a highly technical, hands‑on Engineering Development Manager for Equity Finance to lead design, development, and delivery of next generation equity swaps and synthetic prime applications. You will architect and write production‑grade code, guiding cross‑functional teams across the lifecycle from design to production.

The role demands leading from the front technically, ownership of complex systems, and close collaboration with trading desks, risk, and quant research to

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in equity finance, synthetic prime brokerage, delta one.
• 10+ years of expert-level java, spring boot, distributed cache (Redis) building large scale trading applications.
• Deep understanding of Prime brokerage and Delta One products: equity swaps, futures, forwards, TRS, ETF mechanics, stock lending / securities finance.
• Demonstrated ability to write, review, and take full ownership of production code.
• Strong foundation in numerical methods, linear algebra, and financial mathematics.

Responsibilities

• Architect and implement low-latency, high-performance software development activities for equity finance.
• Build position management and trade life cycle management for Delta One products.
• Own the full software development lifecycle: design, implementation, testing, and production release.
• Interface with other technical teams within Equity Finance, middle and back office to integrate applications.
• Establish engineering standards: code review culture, testing, CI/CD pipelines, and documentation.
• Define the technical architecture of the analytics platform and API design.
• Lead migration of legacy components to modern architectures without disrupting production.
• Collaborate with infrastructure and platform teams on compute, grid, and real-time data.
• Partner with trading desks, structuring, and risk management to translate requirements into deliverables.
• Work with quant research to productionise models and bridge prototypes to production code.
• Participate in hiring: define technical bars and conduct interviews.
• Represent analytics development in cross-functional forums and senior discussions.

Skills

Hands-on leadership

Production-grade coding

System design

Cross-team collaboration

Tools

Java

Spring Boot

Redis

Kafka

Solace

Databases

Job description

RBC in New York is seeking a highly technical, hands‑on Engineering Development Manager for Equity Finance to lead design, development, and delivery of next generation equity swaps and synthetic prime applications. You will architect and write production‑grade code, guiding cross‑functional teams across the lifecycle from design to production.

The role demands leading from the front technically, ownership of complex systems, and close collaboration with trading desks, risk, and quant research to