Overview

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Discover your future at Citi. Working at Citi is far more than just a job. A career with us means joining a team of more than 230,000 dedicated people from around the globe. At Citi, you'll have the opportunity to grow your career, give back to your community and make a real impact.

Job Responsibilities / Role

• Designing and developing front office eTrading applications to the trading business
• Working directly with Traders, Sales, and Quants to contribute towards 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
• Mentoring strong and energetic team in EMEA region
• Serving as advisor or coach to new or lower-level analysts
• Troubleshooting challenging performance and scalability issues
• Engaging with business users in London and across Europe (Paris, Milan)
• Assisting in third line support during core trading hours
• Acting as Subject Matter Expert to senior stakeholders and/or other team members
• Liaising with the global business, product team, support, and development teams on various exciting projects

Job Opportunities

• Build a strong profile in a high-performance global team (London, Paris, Manchester, 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 e-Trading experience for traders at Citi
• Gain knowledge and exposure to Front Office Trading Systems, Fixed Income, and Derivatives flows

Qualifications

Required

• 10+ years of programming experience with an Object-oriented language (preferably Java), Multithreading and any relational database
• Solid architectural understanding of enterprise applications
• Understanding of computing science fundamentals - concurrency, algorithms, data structures, design patterns, etc.

Preferred

• Experience with Java Core, Spring framework and Linux
• 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
• Experience of delivering solutions with ION Trading, Transficc or other recognised connectivity vendors
• Knowledge of major Fixed Income Financial Products (e.g. corporate bonds, ETFs, Interest Rate Swaps etc) and Broker/Customer Markets electronic trading flows
• Experience of KDB
• 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 on JSON/XML and REST services

Education

• Bachelor's degree / University degree or equivalent experience

Competencies

• Excellent communication skills, oral and written; ability to face off to business users
• Good teamwork skills, and the ability to work in a distributed global team environment
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Self-motivated with the determination to learn and achieve goals
• Experience in full lifecycle development

Equal Employment Opportunity

Citi is an equal opportunity employer, and qualified candidates will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you are a person with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation to use our search tools and/or apply for a career opportunity, review Citi’s Accessibility at Citi. View Citi's EEO Policy Statement and the Know Your Rights poster.

Legality and Seniority

• Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
• Employment type: Full-time
• Job function: Engineering and Information Technology

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