ICG Rates eTrading Tech OverviewThe evolution of electronic trading and automation has changed the way that rates 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 Rates 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.Job Purpose:The BlackBird team globally supports connectivity and routing solutions both direct to clients over API and also via ECN platforms. We’re seeking to hire an experienced candidate to help to advance the BlackBird platform creating a best in class, next generation product for our connectivity needs. The role will involve contribution to the global build-out, as well as maintaining a strong partnership with both internal and external stakeholders.This is a challenging and exciting opportunity to transform the connectivity landscape at Citi. It will involve working directly with internal and external partners to solve both business andtechnology problems with a direct measurable impact on the business.Key Responsibilities / Role:
- 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 frameworks
- Working with other core E-Trading teams to manage and support the application.
- Ensuring strong reliability, scalability and performance of the core Blackbird components
- Liaise with technical, business and quant teams to collaborate on identifying opportunities and solutions
- Execute on our technical strategy for the platform
- Coordinate development with both internal technology teams and business/quants
- Drive engineering standards and continue to strive for best in class
Knowledge/Experience:
- Strong academic record, ideally with a Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science,
- Information Science, engineering or related technical or quantitative discipline.
- Demonstrable success in designing and delivering multi-tiered applications
- Extensive hand-on coding expertise in Core Java
- Strong Software development fundamentals, data structures, design patterns, Object-Oriented
- programming, architecture, algorithms, and problem-solving skills
- Strong focus on system performance tuning and experience with low latency Java programming
- Solid understanding of service architecture and high performance, low latency, and multithreading techniques
- Experience architecting and designing high performance server side components.
- At least 5+ years of experience using Java to develop service oriented applications
- Prior experience in building e-trading systems is highly desirable
- Knowledge of any Interest Rates or Futures financial products (e.g. bonds, interest rate swaps) is highly desirable
- Technical skills include Java, Spring, TDD, KDB, FIX, and UNIX/LINUX
Competencies:
- Strong verbal and written communication skills; ability to face off to business users
- Self-motivated individual and 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
This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.
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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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