Fixed Income e Trading Connectivity – Senior Developer (VP)

About Citi

Citi is a world-leading global bank. We have approximately 200 million customer accounts and a presence in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions worldwide. We provide 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. We enable clients to achieve their strategic financial objectives by providing them with cutting-edge ideas, best-in-class products and solutions, and unparalleled access to capital and liquidity.

Fixed Income e Trading Tech Overview

The evolution of electronic trading and automation has changed the way that fixed income 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 e Trading platform and investment in technology. The Fixed Income e Trading team is at the forefront, by building high-performance low latency technology that supports the execution of billions of dollars of client trades every day. Our competitive advantage is our technology and having a platform that provides exceptional and dependable trading experience. If you have this kind of vision, capable of seeing ahead, of developing a clear path forward in a quest to try the as yet untried, here is the opportunity.

Job Purpose:

The Fixed Income Connectivity team globally supports connectivity and routing solutions to ECN platforms and clients. This is achieved using a mixture of Direct FIX API connections and a variety of vendors APIs/Platforms. We’re seeking to hire an experienced candidate to join the connectivity team in creating a best in class, next generation product for our connectivity needs. The role will involve contributions to the global build-out, as well as maintaining a strong partnership with both internal and external stakeholders. This is a challenging and exciting opportunity to transform the connectivity landscape at Citi. It will involve working directly with internal and external partners to solve both business and technology problems with a direct measurable impact on the business.

Key Responsibilities / Role:

• Designing and developing front office e Trading applications for the trading business
• Understanding of good design principles and ability to adhere to complex design
• Development of common, reusable components and services utilizing Citi’s best practices
• Responsible for creating high performance, low latency applications leveraging existing Citi frameworks
• Ensuring strong reliability, scalability and performance of the core application components
• Drive architecture and execute on our technical strategy while partnering with various technology teams and to continue to evolve technical architecture roadmap beyond near term objectives
• Coordinate development with both internal technology teams and Traders, Sales, and Quants
• Driving engineering standards and continuing to strive for best – whilst utilizing creativity and innovation to improve the technical capabilities of the platform and ensuring it remains stable, flexible, and maintainable
• Troubleshooting challenging performance and scalability issues
• Assisting in third line support during core trading hours while working with other e-Trading teams to manage and support the applications

Knowledge/Experience:

• Extensive hand-on coding expertise in C+++ and Core Java, Mult-threading and Concurrency. Any exposure to systems programming (e.g. Rust ) would be useful
• Strong focus on system performance tuning and experience with low latency programming techniques
• Strong academic record, ideally with a Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science,

engineering or related technical or quantitative discipline

• Demonstrable success in designing and delivering complex applications
• Strong software development fundamentals, data structures, design patterns, Object-Oriented programming, architecture, algorithms, and problem-solving skills
• Solid understanding of service architecture and high performance, low latency, and multithreading techniques
• Experience of developing market connectivity applications is highly desirable
• Prior experience in building e-trading systems is highly desirable
• Knowledge of any financial products like Interest Rates, Spread Products, FX, Equities or Futures (e.g. bonds, interest rate swaps, repos) is highly desirable
• Technical skills include Java, Spring, FIX, Aeron, Solace, Chronicle, TDD, BDD, KDB, REST, Gradle, Git and Unix Scripting

Competencies:

• Strong verbal and written communication skills; ability to face off to business users
• Self-motivated individual and with determination to achieve goals
• Willingness to learn, both technically and professionally
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Good team working skills and ability to work in a distributed global team environment
• Ability to work on a fast-pace environment; Flexible and able to deliver quality results in the required timeframe

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

What we’ll provide you

By joining Citi, you will not only be part of a business casual workplace with a hybrid working model (up to 2 days working at home per week), but also receive a competitive base salary (which is annually reviewed), and enjoy a whole host of additional benefits such as:

• 27 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
• A discretional annual performance related bonus
• Private Medical Care & Life Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Pension Plan
• Paid Parental Leave
• Special discounts for employees, family, and friends
• Access to an array of learning and development resources

Visit our About Us | Culture, Values & Benefits page to learn more.

Alongside these benefits Citi is committed to ensuring our workplace is where everyone feels comfortable coming to work as their whole self, every day. We want the best talent around the world to be energized to join us, motivated to stay and empowered to thrive.

Job Family Group:

Technology

Job Family:

Applications Development

Time Type:

Full time

Most Relevant Skills

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Other Relevant Skills

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