The evolution of electronic trading and automation has changed the way that Fixed Income 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 a major key player. The Fixed Income Algo Technology team is responsible for Citi’s market making, hedging, algorithmic trading and internal matching engine, enabling our business to keep its market-leading position. Having a platform that provides exceptional and dependable trading experience is crucial for the bank. We are looking for a talented and passionate developer to continue to evolve our next-generation Algo trading applications. The role requires a detailed understanding of software design/best practices along with a strong technical ability. This is a challenging and exciting opportunity to work on high profile trading applications. The team works closely with end users gaining direct exposure to the fast-paced world of front office trading and finance. **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:** **Required** + 10+ years of programming experience with an Object-oriented language (preferably Java), Multi-Threading 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 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 + Experience with ION Trading solutions + Knowledge of major Fixed Income Products (e.g., EuroGovies/Swaps/GILTS/SAS etc.) and Broker/Customer Markets electronic trading flows. + Experience of KDB + 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. 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