We are looking for a talented and passionate individual to join our Java Server development team and continue to evolve our next-generation rates reference data application.

The successful candidate will gain valuable exposure to the Electronic Trading business and an opportunity to work on a large scale, modern technology platform with a global presence. The team works closely with end users gaining direct exposure to the fast-paced world of front office trading and finance.

Responsibilities:

• 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 framework
• Ensuring strong reliability, scalability and performance of our components
• Apply an engineering mind-set to development work: understand use-cases in details, develop metrics to build good estimates of volume and compute velocity requirements, understand and discuss openly any implementation limitations or workaround
• Contribute actively to system design decisions
• Evaluate and build POCs for new strategic initiatives and work to convert to industrial level solutions
• Provide post release assistance to business, development and support groups
• Develop application as per best practice and remain compliant with prescribed best practices (TDD, maintain high unit test coverage, CI…)
• Assisting in third line support during core trading hours 

Qualifications:

• 8+ years of strong hands-on development experience using Java including expertise with Spring or another dependency injection framework
• 5+ years’ experience in developing and maintaining highly scalable, real-time, low latency, high-volume, scalable microservices
• Experience with real-time messaging middleware (Kafka, RabbitMQ, Solace, Tibco, …)
• Experience working with multi-threaded applications
• Strong software development fundamentals, data structures, design patterns, Object-Oriented programming, architecture, algorithms, and problem-solving skills
• Application deployment and debugging of applications on UNIX/LINUX

Nice to Have:

• Understanding of capital markets and financial derivatives (rates or other)
• Experience with system performance tuning and low latency Java programming
• Hands-on experience in database technologies, including RDBMS (Oracle, …) and No SQL (MongoDB)
• Experience with In-Memory Datastore/Cache libraries (Sol cache, Redis, Apache Ignite, Gemfire, …)
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines
• Test-driven development, including Unit and End-to-End Testing.
• 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

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience

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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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Primary Location Full Time Salary Range:

$120,800.00 - $170,800.00

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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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