Fixed Income Algo Senior Developer - VP

Citi; London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution seeks a Fixed Income Algo Senior Developer - VP to enhance their trading applications. The role involves collaborating with traders, improving platform capabilities, and addressing complex challenges in a fast-paced trading environment. Ideal candidates will have extensive programming experience, particularly in Java, and a strong understanding of trading systems.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of programming experience with an Object-oriented language, preferably Java.
• Solid architectural understanding of enterprise applications.
• Experience in building algo trading systems is highly desirable.

Responsibilities

• Designing and developing Algo trading applications for the business.
• Working directly with Traders and Quants.
• Troubleshooting performance and scalability issues.

Skills

Multi-Threading

Problem-solving

Analytical skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Java

Spring framework

Linux

Jira

Bitbucket

Sonar

Jenkins

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The evolution of electronic trading and automation has changed the way that Fixed Income 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 Fixed Income Algo Technology team is responsible for Citi’s market making, hedging, algorithmic trading and internal matching engine, enabling our 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 Algo 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.

Job Responsibilities / Role:

• Designing and developing Algo trading applications for the business
• Working directly with Traders and Quants to contribute towards the future direction of the platform.
• Improve the technical capabilities of the platform to ensure 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
• 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, support, and development teams on various exciting projects
  
  

Job Opportunities:

• Build a strong profile in a high-performance global team (London, Paris, NY)
• Develop efficient and robust solutions to challenging business problems.
• Work on a globally distributed team to deliver the next generation Algo platform for traders at Citi.
• Gain knowledge and exposure to Front Office Trading Systems, Fixed Income, and Derivatives flows.
  
  

Qualifications:

Required

• 10+ years of 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.
• Prior experience in building algo trading systems is highly desirable
• Solid understanding of service architecture and high performance, low latency, and multithreading techniques
• Strong focus on system performance tuning and experience with low latency Java programming
• Experience with ION Trading solutions
• Knowledge of major Fixed Income Products (e.g., EuroGovies/Swaps/GILTS/SAS etc.) and Broker/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 & Jenkins
• 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
• Ability to inspire and raise the level of his/her colleagues from a technical perspective.
  
  

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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Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Finance and Sales

• Industries

  Banking, Financial Services, and Investment Banking

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