New Jersey

Feeny lists about 712 open tech roles in New Jersey from roughly 144 companies. They are pulled from employers' own career pages and kept current, so what shows up is actually open. A chunk of these are really New York jobs wearing a New Jersey address, which is worth knowing as you read the count.

Jersey City leads, riding the fintech corridor along the Hudson directly across from Manhattan. Livingston and Princeton hold their own clusters, with Princeton leaning on its old pharma and research roots. The openings span 3 New Jersey cities, and the ones nearest the river tend to be the most tightly linked to the New York economy.

The Hudson fintech corridor is where a lot of the hiring happens: Cross River and DriveWealth run their engineering out of the Jersey City and Hoboken area. Beyond fintech, enterprise names like iCIMS and CoreWeave scaled up here, the latter now one of the more talked-about infrastructure companies in the country. Together they give the state a homegrown layer that isn't just spillover from Manhattan.

Fintech and financial infrastructure dominate, a direct result of sitting next to Wall Street and hosting the Hudson corridor firms. Enterprise software and cloud infrastructure round it out, with old pharma and telecom roots still feeding some of the science-adjacent roles. A fair number of listings are NYC positions with a New Jersey location, so read the details if a short commute matters to you.

Cost of living runs about 14% above the national average, and proximity to New York is most of the reason. The upside of that proximity is access: you can hold a Manhattan-caliber fintech job while living somewhere with more space and, in many towns, better schools than the city offers. The trade is that a lot of the market is defined by New York rather than standing on its own, so your options often route through the city's economy. For someone who wants the New York job market without living in it, the state is a practical middle ground.