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
Extensive programming experience with an Object-oriented language (preferably Java), Multi-Threading 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 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 service
Education
Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience
Competencies
Excellent communication skills, oral and written; ability to face off to business users.
Good team-work 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 his/her goals
Experience in full lifecycle development
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
- Please see the requirements listed above.
- Other Relevant Skills
- For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.
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