25901623 Senior eTrading Developer - Rates technology – VP

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 Rates eTrading team is responsible for Citi’s electronic connectivity and distribution platform, enabling our Rates business 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.

What We do / The Team

Rates 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.

Opportunities to:

• 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.

Responsibilities include (but not limited to):

• 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
• 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
• Providing onsite support to Rates traders in Paris location
• 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, support, and development teams on various exciting projects

Key Skills and Experience required:

• Extensive programming experience with an Object-oriented language, Multi-Threading and any relational database
• Solid architectural understanding of enterprise applications
• Understanding of computing science fundamentals – concurrency, algorithms, data structures, design patterns, etc.
• Experience with modern software development practices such as Agile development, test-driven development, and continuous integration and continuous delivery.

Any Beneficial / Nice to have skills and experience:

• 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 with ION Multi-Market Interface (MMI) and/or SystemAdministrator
• Knowledge of major Financial Products (e.g., EuroGovies/Swaps/GILTS/SAS etc.) and Broker/Customer Markets electronic trading flows.
• Experience on MongoDB
• 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 service

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

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Job Family Group:

Technology

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Job Family:

Applications Development

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Time Type:

Full time

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Most Relevant Skills

Please see the requirements listed above.

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Other Relevant Skills

For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.

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