Algo Trading Java Developer – VP – New York (Hybrid)

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Résumé du poste

Citi in New York seeks a software engineer to advance the Fixed Income Algo Technology platform, delivering low-latency trading engines for internal market making and algorithmic trading.

You will develop reusable engines, ensure reliability and performance, collaborate with e-trading teams, and contribute to design, optimization and scalable systems.

This full-time role offers significant exposure to high-profile projects and sophisticated market data workflows in a global bank.

Qualifications

• At least 2 years of extensive hands on coding experience in Core Java within low latency, high throughput distributed applications.
• Experience with messaging technologies like Solace, Kafka etc.
• Experience with Chronicle and/or Aeron.
• Experience implementing and supporting market data processing applications and algorithmic trading strategies.
• Experience building backtesting frameworks and historical data storages.
• Basic Linux system performance tuning and monitoring, ability to troubleshoot performance issues within Java/Linux stack.

Responsabilités

• Develop reusable algo trading engines with focus on low latency execution strategies.
• Ensure strong reliability, scalability and performance of the core algo components.
• Work with other e-trading teams to support live trading.
• Learn and maintain large code base, improve design and quality of the algo trading strategies code.
• Partner with business to drive technology stack beyond near term objectives.
• Adhere to engineering standards and strive for best in class solutions.

Connaissances

Java programming

Low-latency design

Distributed systems

Problem solving

Team collaboration

Communication

Outils

Solace

Kafka

Chronicle

Aeron

Gradle

Git

TeamCity

Jenkins

Artifactory

KDB

Description du poste

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. Our core activities are safeguarding assets, lending money, making payments and accessing the capital markets on behalf of our clients.

Citi’s Mission and Value Proposition explain what we do and Citi Leadership Standards explain how we do it. Our mission is to serve as a trusted partner to our clients by responsibly providing financial services that enable growth and economic progress. We strive to earn and maintain our clients’ and the public’s trust by constantly adhering to the highest ethical standards and making a positive impact on the communities we serve. Our Leadership Standards is a common set of skills and expected behaviors that illustrate how our employees should work every day to be successful and strengthens our ability to execute against our strategic priorities.

Diversity is a key business imperative and a source of strength at Citi. We serve clients from every walk of life, every background and every origin. Our goal is to have our workforce reflect this same diversity at all levels. Citi has made it a priority to foster a culture where the best people want to work, where individuals are promoted based on merit, where we value and demand respect for others and where opportunities to develop are widely available to all.

Job Purpose

Fixed Income Algo Technology team in North America supports Citi’s Internal Market Making, Algorithmic Trading, and internal matching for the Spread Product algo trading business. We’re seeking to hire an experienced software engineer to advance the suite of algo trading platform creating a best in class, next generation product for our clients’ franchise.

Key Responsibilities / Role

• Develop reusable algo trading engines with focus on low latency execution strategies
• Ensure strong reliability, scalability and performance of the core algo components
• Work with other e-trading teams to support live trading
• Learn and maintain large code base, improve design and quality of the algo trading strategies code
• Partner with business to drive technology stack beyond near term objectives
• Adhere to engineering standards and strive for best in class solutions

Job Opportunities

• Work on high profile algo trading projects that deliver next-generation performance and functionality
• Apply best software architecture and design practices for algo trading strategies development
• Use scientific approach to improve performance of trading applications
• Play partnership role defining the direction of Rates algorithmic trading at Citi
• Harness capabilities of modern technologies and be accountable for the positive impact of delivery
• Significant profile exposure through business impacting projects

Knowledge/Experience

• Strong software development fundamentals, data structures, design patterns, object-oriented programming, algorithms complexity analysis
• At least 2 years of extensive hands on coding experience in Core Java within low latency, high throughput distributed applications
• Experience with messaging technologies like Solace, Kafka etc.
• Experience with Chronicle and/or Aeron
• Experience implementing and supporting market data processing applications and algorithmic trading strategies
• Experience building backtesting frameworks and historical data storages
• Basic Linux system performance tuning and monitoring, ability to troubleshoot performance issues within Java/Linux stack
• Working knowledge of no GC Java techniques and lock free thread safe algorithms
• Experience with Python, Spring, TDD, KDB or any other tick data storages
• Build tools, gradle, git, teamcity, jenkins, artifactory

Competencies

• Strong verbal and written communication skills; ability to communicate with business users
• Self-motivated individual 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

Job Family Group: Technology

Job Family: Applications Development

Time Type: Full time

Primary Location: New York, New York, United States

Primary Location Full Time Salary Range: $142,320.00 – $213,480.00