Fixed Income eTrading Java Developer (AVP)

The evolution of electronic trading and automation has changed the way that rates products trade forever, driving a need for real-time, low latency pricing, market making and risk technology. In this increasingly electronic and competitive landscape, Citi is a major key player.

The Fixed Income eTrading team is responsible for Citi’s electronic connectivity and distribution platform, enabling our Rates & Spread Product businesses to keep its market-leading position. Having a platform that provides exceptional and dependable trading experience is crucial for the bank.

We are looking for a talented and passionate developer to continue to evolve our next-generation trading applications. The role requires a detailed understanding of software design/best practices along with a strong technical ability.  This is a challenging and exciting opportunity to work on high profile trading applications. The team works closely with end users gaining direct exposure to the fast-paced world of front office trading and finance.

Responsibilities:

- Designing and developing Front Office eTrading applications for the Rates & Spread Product Trading business

- Working directly with Traders, Sales, and Quants to shape the future direction of the platform.

- Utilizing creativity and innovation to improve the technical capabilities of the platform and ensuring it remains stable, flexible, and maintainable.

- Driving engineering standards and continuing to strive for best

- Enhancing our automated testing efforts and optimizing our UAT process

- Troubleshooting challenging performance and scalability issues

- Providing onsite support to Rates & Spread product traders in London

- Assisting in third line support during core trading hours

- Liaising with the global business, support, and development teams on various exciting projects

Job Opportunities:

- Build a strong profile in a high-performance global team (London, Paris, NY, Mississauga, Shanghai, Sydney, and Tokyo)

- Develop efficient and robust solutions to challenging business problems.

- Work on a globally distributed team to deliver the next generation eTrading experience for traders at Citi.

- Gain knowledge and exposure to Front Office Trading Systems, Fixed Income, and Derivatives flows.

Qualifications:
Required

- 3+ years of programming experience with an object-oriented language (Java or C#), multi-threading and any relational database

- Solid architectural understanding of enterprise applications

- Understanding of computing science fundamentals – concurrency, algorithms, data structures, design patterns, etc.

- Ability to work under pressure and manage deadlines or unexpected changes in expectations or requirements

Preferred

- Experience with Java Core, Spring framework and Linux

- Experience with ION Multi-Market Interface (MMI) and/or SystemAdministrator

- Knowledge of major Fixed Income Financial Products (e.g. corporate bonds, ETFs, Interest Rate Swaps etc) and Customer Markets electronic trading flows.

- Experience with modern software development practices such as Agile development, test-driven development, and continuous integration and continuous delivery.

- Worked in an Agile globally distributed team using tools such as Jira, Bitbucket, Sonar & Team City

- Worked with tools such as IntelliJ, Gradle, etc.,

- Experience with KDB+ and Q programming language

- Experience on JSON/XML & REST service

Education:

- Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience
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