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As a member of the Java Server development team at Citi, you will play a crucial role in evolving the next-generation trading application. Your work will provide valuable exposure to the Electronic Trading business and a chance to contribute to a large-scale, modern technology platform with a global reach. Working closely with end users, you will directly engage in the fast-paced world of front office trading and finance. **Responsibilities:** - Understand and apply good design principles while adhering to complex designs - Develop common, reusable components and services following Citis best practices - Create high-performance, low-latency applications using existing Citi framework - Ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of developed components - Approach development work with an engineering mindset, including understanding detailed use-cases, developing metrics for estimating volume and velocity requirements, and openly discussing implementation limitations or workarounds - Actively contribute to system design decisions - Evaluate and build proof of concepts for new strategic initiatives and transition them into industrial-level solutions - Provide post-release support to business, development, and support groups - Develop applications in compliance with best practices such as Test-Driven Development, maintaining high unit test coverage, and continuous integration - Assist in third-line support during core trading hours **Qualifications:** *Required:* - 8+ years of hands-on Java development experience, including expertise with Spring or another dependency injection framework - 5+ years of experience in developing and maintaining highly scalable, real-time, low-latency, high-volume microservices - Familiarity with real-time messaging middleware (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ, Solace, Tibco) - Experience with multi-threaded applications - Strong fundamentals in software development, data structures, design patterns, Object-Oriented programming, architecture, algorithms, and problem-solving - Proficiency in application deployment and debugging on UNIX/LINUX *Nice to Have:* - Understanding of capital markets and financial derivatives - Experience in system performance tuning and low-latency Java programming - Hands-on experience with database technologies, including RDBMS (e.g., Oracle) and NoSQL (e.g., MongoDB) - Familiarity with In-Memory Datastore/Cache libraries (e.g., Redis, Apache Ignite, Gemfire) - Experience with CI/CD pipelines - Test-driven development expertise, including Unit and End-to-End Testing **Competencies:** - Strong verbal and written communication skills for effective interaction with business users - Self-motivated with a determination to achieve goals - Willingness to learn and grow both technically and professionally - Strong analytical and problem-solving skills - Ability to work collaboratively in a distributed global team environment - Flexibility and adaptability to deliver quality results within required timeframes **Education:** - Bachelors degree/University degree or equivalent experience This job description offers a glimpse into the work you will be involved in as part of the team. Additional responsibilities may be assigned as needed.,
