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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