Description du Poste
The Fixed Income Algo Technology team in EMEA supports Citi’s market making, algorithmic trading, and internal matching for the EMEA Business. We’re seeking to hire an AVP level candidate to advance the algo execution platform creating a best in class, next generation product for our clients’ franchise. This includes optimizing execution logic and development of new algorithms and controls to minimize market impact. The suite of components including execution tools, internal market makers, matching engines, and the hedger components.
Citi is one of the top global dealers on the street in Fixed Income and contributing to that success is a great opportunity to develop cutting edge technical skills with strong career opportunities.
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.
Job Responsibilities / Role:
Designing and developing Algo trading applications for the business
Working directly with Traders and Quants to contribute towards the future direction of the platform.
Improve the technical capabilities of the platform to ensure it remains stable, flexible, and maintainable.
Driving engineering standards and continuing to strive for best
Enhancing our automated testing efforts and optimizing our UAT process
Serving as advisor or coach to new or lower-level analysts
Troubleshooting challenging performance and scalability issues
Engaging with business users in London and across Europe (Paris, Milan)
Assisting in third line support during core trading hours
Acting as Subject Matter Expert to senior stakeholders and /or other team members.
Liaising with the global business, support, and development teams on various exciting projects
Job Opportunities:
Build a strong profile in a high-performance global team (London, Paris, NY)
Develop efficient and robust solutions to challenging business problems.
Work on a globally distributed team to deliver the next generation Algo platform for traders at Citi.
Gain knowledge and exposure to Front Office Trading Systems, Fixed Income, and Derivatives flows.
Qualifications:
Proven programming experience with an Object-oriented language (preferably Java), Multi-Threading, KDB and any relational database
Solid architectural understanding of enterprise applications
Understanding of computing science fundamentals – concurrency, algorithms, data structures, design patterns, etc.
Preferred:
Experience with Java Core, Spring framework and Linux
Experience with Rust
Experience developing large financial software trading systems with substantial hands-on development experience in building systems with an attention to optimizing and tuning performance, while also demonstrating critical thinking skills related to re-use, scalability, and troubleshooting.
Prior experience in building algo trading systems is highly desirable
Solid understanding of service architecture and high performance, low latency, and multithreading techniques
Strong focus on system performance tuning and experience with low latency Java programming
Knowledge of major Fixed Income Products (e.g., EuroGovies/Swaps/GILTS/SAS etc.) and Broker/Customer Markets electronic trading flows.
Experience with modern software development practices such as Agile development, test-driven development, and continuous integration and continuous delivery.
Worked in an Agile globally distributed team using tools such as Jira, Bitbucket, Sonar & Jenkins
Worked with tools such as IntelliJ, Gradle, etc.,
Experience on JSON/XML and REST service
Education:
Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience
Competencies:
Excellent communication skills, oral and written; ability to face off to business users.
Good team-work skills, and the ability to work in a distributed global team environment
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Self-motivated with the determination to learn and achieve his/her goals
Experience in full lifecycle development
Ability to inspire and raise the level of his/her colleagues from a technical perspective.
We are offering various and attractive benefits, just as hybrid working model (2 days from home).
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.
Sounds like Citi has everything you need? Then apply to discover the true extent of your capabilities.
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