Java Engineer (Server Side) – Fixed income eTrading Technology, Citi

Java Engineer (Server Side) – Fixed income eTrading Technology

Citi

Location:

United Kingdom, Manchester

Category:

IT - Software Development

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Not provided

Salary:

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Job Description:

We are looking for a talented and passionate individual to join our Java Server development team and continue to evolve our next-generation trading application. The successful candidate will gain valuable exposure to the Electronic Trading business and an opportunity to work on a large scale, modern technology platform with a global presence. The team works closely with end users gaining direct exposure to the fast paced world of front office trading and finance.

Job Responsibility:

Development of common, reusable components and services utilizing Citi’s best practices
Responsible for creating high performance, low latency applications leveraging existing Citi framework
Ensuring strong reliability, scalability and performance of our components
Apply an engineering mind-set to development work: understand use-cases in details, develop metrics to build good estimates of volume and compute velocity requirements, understand and discuss openly any implementation limitations or workaround
Contribute actively to system design decisions
Evaluate and build POCs for new strategic initiatives and work to convert to industrial level solutions
Provide post release assistance to business, development and support groups
Develop application as per best practice and remain compliant with prescribed best practices (TDD, maintain high unit test coverage, CI…)
Assisting in third line support during core trading hours

Requirements:

Strong hands-on development experience using Java including expertise with Spring or another dependency injection framework
Proven experience in developing and maintaining highly scalable, real-time, low latency, high-volume, scalable microservices
Experience with real-time messaging middleware (Kafka, RabbitMQ, Solace, Tibco, …)
Experience working with multi-threaded applications
Strong software development fundamentals, data structures, design patterns, Object-Oriented programming, architecture, algorithms, and problem-solving skills
Application deployment and debugging of applications on UNIX/LINUX
Ability to work on a fast-pace environment
Flexible and able to deliver quality results in the required timeframe

Nice to have:

Understanding of capital markets and financial derivatives
Experience with system performance tuning and low latency Java programming
Hands-on experience in database technologies, including RDBMS (Oracle, …) and NoSQL (MongoDB)
Experience with In-Memory Datastore/Cache libraries (Redis, Apache Ignite, Gemfire, …)
Experience with CI/CD pipelines
Test-driven development, including Unit and End-to-End Testing

What we offer:

27 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
A discretional annual performance related bonus
Private Medical Care & Life Insurance
Employee Assistance Program
Pension Plan
Paid Parental Leave
Special discounts for employees, family, and friends
Access to an array of learning and development resources

Additional Information:

Job Posted:

March 21, 2025

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Hybrid work

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