Java Engineer (Server Side) – Fixed income  eTrading Technology (Manchester based) – Hybrid

Initially, this role will be remote, but will switch to Hybrid working once the new office is Open (city-centre).

Therefore applicants who are not able to commit to a hybrid working model (3 days onsite in the Manchester office) need not apply.

About us

• CITI is one of the largest players in the financial industry, employing more than 200,000 people across the globe.
• Global Markets Trading deals with clients and investors who wish to trade in the international markets of Foreign Exchange, Equities, Interest Rates, Bonds, Commodities and Credit derivatives.
• Each of these market sectors deliver multi-billion-dollar revenues and have their own technology team, working with a range of applications and different technologies. Most of our key applications are developed in-house, to give our trading operations a competitive edge through speed, flexibility, and bespoke functionality.
• Previously, our UK mainland IT roles were centred in the London area. However, we believe in the growing significance of N.W. England and particularly Manchester as a technology hub.

What we do

• Fixed Income Technology is responsible for delivering state of the art technology solutions to the Fixed Income business. Initiatives includes deliveries across sales, risk, pricing, algorithmic trading, execution, trade processing, and much more.
• The Fixed Income business has set out an ambitious growth plan, and strong technical development is critical to achieving our goals and enhancing our leading position in the financial market.
• 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 key player due to its leading eTrading platform and investment in technology.  The FI eTrading team is at the forefront, by building high-performance low latency technology that supports the execution of billions of dollars of client trades every day.   Our competitive advantage is our technology and having a platform that provides exceptional and dependable trading experience.  
• If you have this kind of vision, capable of seeing ahead, of developing a clear path forward in a quest to try the as yet untried, here is the opportunity.

What you will do / Responsibilities:

Job Purpose:

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.

• Understanding of good design principles and ability to adhere to complex design
• 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

What you will bring

Essential skills and experience includes:

• 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

Bonus points for:

• 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.

Education:

• University degree or equivalent experience operating in a similar role

This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.

What we’ll provide you

By joining Citi, you will not only be part of a business casual workplace with a hybrid working model (up to 2 days working at home per week), but also receive a competitive base salary (which is annually reviewed), and enjoy a whole host of additional benefits such as:

• 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

Visit our Global Benefits page to learn more.

Alongside these benefits Citi is committed to ensuring our workplace is where everyone feels comfortable coming to work as their whole self, every day. We want the best talent around the world to be energized to join us, motivated to stay and empowered to thrive.

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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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