Senior Fixed Income, E-Trading Engineer, Senior Vice President

Citi • New York, NY

3d • Onsite

About The Position

The Fixed Income (FI) eTrading Technology team supports Citi’s dealer to client for the Fixed Income trading business globally. We’re seeking to hire an experienced software engineer to advance the suite of FI eTrading applications, creating a best-in-class, next generation product for our clients’ franchise. This includes optimizing execution logic and development of new systems to minimize market impact. The suite of components including streaming, spread management and pricing client flows. This is a challenging and exciting opportunity to contribute to one of the largest and most sophisticated platforms in Fixed Income. It will involve working directly with trading and quants to solve both business and technology problems with a direct measurable impact on the business.

Requirements

• Strong software development fundamentals, data structures, design patterns, object-oriented programming
• 8+ years of extensive hands on coding experience in Core Java within low latency, high throughput distributed applications
• Experience with ION Platform, FIX, SBE or any other messaging protocols
• 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
• Strong academic record, ideally with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Science, engineering or related technical or quantitative discipline
• 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

Responsibilities

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

Benefits

• medical, dental & vision coverage
• 401(k)
• life, accident, and disability insurance
• wellness programs
• paid time off packages, including planned time off (vacation), unplanned time off (sick leave), and paid holidays

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior