Senior Fixed Income, E-Trading Engineer, Senior Vice President

About Citi

Citi, the leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Citi provides consumers, corporations, governments and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management. Our core activities are safeguarding assets, lending money, making payments and accessing the capital markets on behalf of our clients.

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Job Purpose:

The Fixed Income (FI) eTrading Technology team supports Citi’s dealer to client for the Fixed Income trading business globally.  We’re seeking to hire an experienced software engineer to advance the suite of FI eTrading applications, creating a best-in-class, next generation product for our clients’ franchise.  This includes optimizing execution logic and development of new systems to minimize market impact.  The suite of components including streaming, spread management and pricing client flows.

This is a challenging and exciting opportunity to contribute to one of the largest and most sophisticated platforms in Fixed Income.  It will involve working directly with trading and quants to solve both business and technology problems with a direct measurable impact on the business.

Key Responsibilities / Role:

• Develop reusable eTrading negotiation engines with focus on low latency execution
• Ensure strong reliability, scalability and performance of the core eTrading components
• Work with other eTrading teams to support live manual trading
• Learn and maintain large code base, improve design and quality of the eTrading code base
• Partner with business to drive technology stack beyond near term objectives
• Adhere to engineering standards and strive for best-in-class solutions

Job Opportunities:

• Work on high profile eTrading projects that deliver next-generation performance and functionality
• Apply best software architecture and design practices for eTrading application development
• Use scientific approach to improve performance of trading applications
• Play partnership role defining the direction of FI trading at Citi
• Harness capabilities of modern technologies and be accountable for the positive impact of delivery
• Significant profile exposure through business impacting projects

Knowledge/Experience:

• Strong software development fundamentals, data structures, design patterns, object-oriented programming
• 8+ years of extensive hands on coding experience in Core Java within low latency, high throughput distributed applications
• Experience with ION Platform, FIX, SBE or any other messaging protocols
• Experience implementing and supporting market data processing applications and algorithmic trading strategies
• Experience building backtesting frameworks and historical data storages
• Basic Linux system performance tuning and monitoring, ability to troubleshoot performance issues within Java/Linux stack
• Working knowledge of no GC Java techniques and lock free thread safe algorithms
• Experience with Python, Spring, TDD, KDB or any other tick data storages
• Build tools, gradle, git, teamcity, jenkins, artifactory
• Strong academic record, ideally with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Science, engineering or related technical or quantitative discipline

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