Java Algo Developer, Fixed Income Trading, Vice President

Job Purpose:

Join Citi's Fixed Income Algo Technology team in North America and play a pivotal role in advancing our internal market-making and algorithmic trading capabilities for the Spread Product algo trading business. This is a unique and challenging opportunity for an experienced software engineer to contribute to one of the industry's largest and most sophisticated algorithmic trading platforms. You will be instrumental in creating best-in-class, next-generation products, directly impacting our clients' franchise. This role involves close collaboration with traders and quants to solve complex business and technology problems, with a direct and measurable influence on business outcomes.

Key Responsibilities / Role:

• Design and develop reusable algo trading platform components, with a strong focus on high performance and low latency.
• Collaborate directly with Traders, Quants, and Product Managers to understand business requirements and implement functional enhancements to the algo trading platform.
• Ensure the strong reliability, scalability, and performance of core algorithmic components.
• Work seamlessly with wider eTrading Teams and Production Support to maintain and enhance live trading systems.
• Adhere to stringent engineering standards, continuously striving for best-in-class solutions and practices.

Knowledge/Experience

• 10+ years of extensive hands-on coding experience in core Java, specializing in low-latency, high-throughput distributed applications.
• Profound understanding of software development fundamentals, data structures, design patterns, object-oriented programming, and algorithms complexity analysis.
• Demonstrated experience with messaging technologies such as Solace, Kafka, etc.
• Practical experience with Chronicle and/or Aeron.
• Experience with distributed caching techniques.
• Proven track record in implementing and supporting market data processing applications and trading applications.
• Experience building robust back-testing frameworks and managing historical data storages.
• Basic proficiency in Linux system performance tuning and monitoring, with the ability to troubleshoot performance issues within the Java/Linux stack.
• Familiarity with build tools, including Gradle, Git, TeamCity, Jenkins, and Artifactory.
• Strong academic record, ideally with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Science, Engineering, or a related technical or quantitative discipline.

Competencies:

• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to effectively communicate complex technical concepts to business users.
• A self-motivated individual with a strong determination to achieve goals and drive projects to successful completion.
• Eagerness to continuously learn and grow, both technically and professionally.
• Excellent team-working skills and the ability to thrive in a distributed global team environment.
• Ability to perform effectively and deliver results in a fast-paced environment.
• Flexible and adaptable, capable of delivering high-quality results within required timeframes.