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As part of Citi, diversity is considered a crucial business imperative and a source of strength. To best serve our clients, we prioritize fostering a culture of inclusion, equity, respect, and opportunities for all. Teams with diverse backgrounds and experiences bring unique perspectives to discussions, enhance decision-making processes, and ultimately improve overall business performance. At Citi, promoting a culture where merit is recognized in individual promotions, respect for others is valued and demanded, and opportunities for development are accessible to all, is a top priority. The Fixed Income eTrading Tech division plays a pivotal role in the electronic trading landscape, requiring real-time, low latency pricing, market making, and risk technology. Citi stands out as a key player in this competitive field due to its leading eTrading platform and substantial investment in technology. The FI eTrading team is dedicated to building high-performance, low latency technology that supports the execution of client trades worth billions of dollars daily. Our competitive edge lies in our exceptional and reliable trading platform, making this an exciting opportunity for individuals with a forward-thinking vision and a drive to explore uncharted territories. As a part of the Java Server development team, you will play a significant role in evolving our next-generation trading application. This role offers valuable exposure to the Electronic Trading business and the chance to work on a large-scale, modern technology platform with a global reach. Collaborating closely with end-users, you will gain direct insight into the fast-paced world of front office trading and finance. Your responsibilities will include: - Demonstrating a solid understanding of good design principles and the ability to adhere to complex designs. - Developing common, reusable components and services following Citis best practices. - Creating high-performance, low latency applications by leveraging existing Citi framework. - Ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of our components. - Applying an engineering mindset to development work, including understanding use-cases in detail, developing metrics for estimates, and actively contributing to system design decisions. - Evaluating and building POCs for new strategic initiatives and converting them into industrial-level solutions. - Providing post-release assistance to business, development, and support groups. - Developing applications in compliance with best practices, including Test-driven development, maintaining high unit test coverage, and continuous integration. Qualifications: Required: - 8+ years of hands-on development experience using Java, with expertise in Spring or another dependency injection framework. - 5+ years of experience in developing and maintaining highly scalable, real-time, low latency, high-volume microservices. - Experience with real-time messaging middleware and multi-threaded applications. - Strong fundamentals in software development, data structures, design patterns, Object-Oriented programming, architecture, algorithms, and problem-solving. - Experience in application deployment and debugging on UNIX/LINUX. Nice to Have: - Understanding of capital markets and financial derivatives. - Experience with system performance tuning and low latency Java programming. - Hands-on experience with database technologies, including RDBMS and NoSQL. - Experience with In-Memory Datastore/Cache libraries, CI/CD pipelines, and Test-driven development. Competencies: - Strong verbal and written communication skills. - Self-motivated with a determination to achieve goals. - Willingness to learn and strong analytical and problem-solving skills. - Good team-working skills with the ability to work in a distributed global team environment. - Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and deliver quality results within specified timeframes. Education: - Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience. Please note that this job description offers a broad overview of the responsibilities. Other job-related duties may be assigned as necessary.,
