Backend Java Developer (Hybrid)

Vodafone; Mississauga; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking global bank as part of the innovative FI Front office technology team, where you'll design and build next-generation data pipelines that empower traders and data scientists. This role offers the chance to work with cutting-edge technologies in a collaborative environment, focusing on delivering high-quality, low-latency solutions. Ideal candidates will thrive in a culture of respect and meritocracy, bringing their unique perspectives to enhance our diverse team. If you're passionate about technology and eager to make an impact, this is the opportunity for you.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience with Java development and real-time applications.
• Proficient in distributed stream processing frameworks and event-driven architectures.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable, low-latency streaming data pipelines.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to create Distributed Streaming Data Pipelines.

Skills

Java Development

Real-time Low Latency Applications

Distributed Stream Processing

Event-driven Architectures

Analytical Skills

Agile SDLC

Multithreading

OOP and OOAD

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Master’s Degree

Tools

Flink

Spark Streaming

Kafka

Kubernetes

OpenShift

YARN

Mesos

Trino (Presto)

Snowflake

Job description

Overview of the Role

Citi, the leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Citi provides 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.

As a bank with a brain and a soul, Citi creates economic value that is systemically responsible and in our clients’ best interests. Our Enterprise Operations & Technology teams are charged with a mission that rivals any large tech company. Our technology solutions are the foundations of everything we do from keeping the bank safe, managing global resources, and providing the technical tools our workers need to be successful to designing our digital architecture and ensuring our platforms provide a first-class customer experience. We reimagine client and partner experiences to deliver excellence through secure, reliable, and efficient services.

Our commitment to diversity includes a workforce that represents the clients we serve from all walks of life, backgrounds, and origins. We foster an environment where the best people want to work. We value and demand respect for others, promote individuals based on merit, and ensure opportunities for personal development are widely available to all. Ideal candidates are innovators with well-rounded backgrounds who bring their authentic selves to work and complement our culture of delivering results with pride. If you are a problem solver who seeks passion in your work, come join us. We’ll enable growth and progress together.

Fixed Income (FI) is the primary source of capital for corporations, governments, and nonprofits, providing liquidity and innovative solutions globally across the credit, municipal, and securitized markets.

FI’s activities include origination, structuring, investing, lending, and market making and it offers a variety of products including, but not limited to, corporate bonds, emerging markets bonds, asset backed securities, mortgage backed securities, collateralized loan obligations (CLOs), municipal securities, agency securities, short term interest rate products, loans, letters of credit, and derivative instruments, such as interest rate swaps, total return swaps, rate locks, and credit default swaps.

FI Front office technology team is building the next generation e-trading data team in Canada. Data team builds ETL pipelines to load data from market data vendors like BBG, LSEG, Markit etc. using various team channels like Kafka and Solace into different types of LAP databases (like KDB, Pinot, SQL Server). These pipelines require a latency of milliseconds as a lot of real-time analytical applications are relying on the same to provide insights to our traders and quantitative analysts.

Ideal candidate should be able to understand the growing demands of data within the organization and should be able to design the pipelines accordingly. The candidate should also be able to demonstrate skills like self-development, team development, networking, strategic thinking and willingness to work with global teams.

Responsibilities:

• Design and build scalable, low-latency, fault-tolerant streaming data pipelines that empower Data Scientists, Quants, and Traders to extract meaningful and timely insights from our data assets.

• Establish and support an efficient, sustainable, and operationally resilient team to support the execution of the multi-year roadmap focusing on value delivery, on-time, on-budget and with high quality.

• Work closely with business and technology stakeholders to build the next generation Distributed Streaming Data Pipelines and Analytics Data Stores using streaming frameworks (e.g. Flink, Spark Streaming, etc.).

• Collaborate with application teams in designing effective solutions to challenging latency and/or throughput requirements.

• Develop comprehensive knowledge of how areas of business integrate to accomplish business goals.

• Maintain an ongoing understanding of emerging data management technologies, industry trends and best practices.

• The position requires analytical skills in order to filter, prioritize and validate potentially complex material, technical or business or otherwise, from multiple sources.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience with Java development

• Experienced in developing real-time low latency applications

• Experience with distributed stream processing frameworks: Flink, Spark Streaming, Kafka Streams

• Experience in MPP platforms like Trino (Presto), Snowflake is a plus

• Experience with deployment platforms such as Kubernetes, OpenShift, YARN, Mesos

• Expertise in event-driven architectures.

• Excellent knowledge of Multithreading, Thread-Pools with strong OOP and OOAD skills

• Experience in software development SDLC (Agile)

• Ability to work on multiple projects concurrently and meet deadlines

• Ability to work with globally distributed teams

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience

• Master’s degree preferred

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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