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

Citi • New York, NY

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Citi, a leading global bank with approximately 200 million customer accounts across more than 160 countries, offers a broad range of financial products and services including consumer banking, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management. The bank's core activities involve safeguarding assets, lending money, making payments, and accessing capital markets for clients. Citi's mission is to serve as a trusted partner by responsibly providing financial services that enable growth and economic progress, adhering to high ethical standards, and making a positive community impact. The company fosters a diverse culture where merit-based promotions and respect are valued.
The Fixed Income (FI) eTrading Technology team supports Citi’s global dealer-to-client Fixed Income trading business. This role seeks an experienced software engineer to enhance the suite of FI eTrading applications, aiming to create a best-in-class, next-generation product. This involves optimizing execution logic and developing new systems to minimize market impact, covering components such as streaming, spread management, and pricing client flows. This challenging opportunity offers direct engagement with trading and quant teams to solve business and technology problems, with a 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
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees