Fixed Income Algo Developer

**Job Background/context**:
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**:

- 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**:
**Required**
- 5-8 years of programming experience with an Object-oriented language (preferably Java), Multi-Threading, KDB and any relational database
- 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.

This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.**Job Family Group**:
Technology
- **Job Family**:
Applications Development
- **Time Type**:
Full time
- **Most Relevant Skills**

Please see the requirements listed above.
- **Other Relevant Skills**

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