Assistant Vice President, eTrading Core Java Developer

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 key player due to its
leading eTrading platform and investment in technology.
The Rates eTrading team is responsible for Citi’s electronic connectivity and distribution platform, enabling our Rates business to achieve its market-leading position. Our competitive advantage is our technology and having a platform that provides exceptional and dependable trading experience.

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.

Job Background/context:

Fixed Income Technology is responsible for delivering state of the art technology solutions to the Global Rates business. Initiatives includes deliveries across sales, risk, pricing, algorithmic trading, execution, trade processing, and much more. 
Citi is one of the top global dealers on the street in Fixed Income and contributing to that success is a great opportunity to develop cutting edge technical skills with strong career opportunities. 

The Fixed Income business has set out an ambitious growth plan, and strong technical development is critical to achieving our goals and enhancing our leading position in the financial market.

Job Responsibilities / Role:

• Designing and developing front office eTrading applications to the 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 traders in Paris location
• 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)
• Learn and apply low latency programming solutions
• 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

• 3-7 years of experience in server side Core Java and Multi-Threading
• Experience with Spring framework, Linux, Relational Databases
• Solid architectural understanding of enterprise applications
• Experience with modern software development practices such as Agile development, test-driven development, and continuous integration and continuous delivery.
• Understanding of computing science fundamentals – concurrency, algorithms, data structures, design patterns, etc.

Preferred

• Experience developing large financial software trading systems with substantial hands-on development experience in building systems with an attention to optimizing and tuning performance, while also demonstrating critical thinking skills related to re-use, scalability, and troubleshooting.
• Knowledge of major Fixed Income Products (Repos, US Treasuries, Interest Rate Swaps) and Broker/Customer Markets electronic trading flows.
• Worked in an Agile globally distributed team using tools such as Jira, GitHub, Sonar & Team City
• Worked with tools such as IntelliJ, Gradle, etc.,
• Experience with ION
• Experience on JSON/XML and REST service
• KDB Experience
• Experience with AI tools: Copilot, Claude, Devin

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience
• Master’s degree preferred

This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.

Competencies:

• Excellent communication skills, oral and written; ability to face off to business users.
• Good team-work skills, and the ability to work in a distributed global team environment
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent planning and organizational skills
• Self-motivated with the determination to learn and achieve his/her goals
• Flexible and able to deliver quality results in the required timeframe
• Experience in full lifecycle development
• Ability to inspire and raise the level of his/her colleagues from a technical perspective.
• Ability to multi-task effectively

Ability to multi-task effectively

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