- Location
- Pune, MH,IN, IN
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- IT
- Seniority
- VP
- Source
- Eightfold
Description
About Fixed Income Technology at Citi
Fixed Income Technology at Citi is dedicated to delivering state-of-the-art technology solutions for the Global Fixed Income (FI) business. Our initiatives span sales, risk, pricing, algorithmic trading, execution, and trade processing. As one of the top global dealers in Fixed Income, Citi offers a unique opportunity to develop cutting-edge technical skills and build a strong career. The FI business is pursuing an ambitious growth plan, and robust technical development is crucial to achieving our goals and maintaining our leadership in the financial market.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and develop front office eTrading applications for the trading business.
- Collaborate directly with Traders, Sales, and Quants to define the future direction of the platform.
- Leverage creativity and innovation to enhance the platform's technical capabilities, ensuring stability, flexibility, and maintainability.
- Drive engineering standards and best practices.
- Enhance automated testing efforts and optimize the User Acceptance Testing (UAT) process.
- Serve as an advisor or coach to new or junior analysts.
- Troubleshoot challenging performance and scalability issues.
- Engage with business users in APAC and across Europe (e.g., London, Paris, Milan).
- Provide third-line support during core trading hours.
- Act as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) to senior stakeholders and team members.
- Liaise with global business, product, support, and development teams on various projects.
What You'll Gain
- Build a strong professional profile within a high-performance global team spanning London, Paris, Manchester, New York, Mississauga, Shanghai, Pune, and Tokyo.
- Develop efficient and robust solutions to complex business challenges.
- Contribute to the next generation of e-Trading experiences for Citi's traders in a globally distributed team environment.
- Gain extensive knowledge and exposure to Front Office Trading Systems, Fixed Income, and Derivatives flows.
Qualifications
Required:
- 8+ years of programming experience with an object-oriented language (preferably Java), including multi-threading concepts and relational databases.
- Solid architectural understanding of enterprise applications.
- Strong grasp of computer science fundamentals: concurrency, algorithms, data structures, design patterns, etc.
Preferred:
- Experience with Java Core, Spring framework, and Linux.
- Demonstrated experience developing large financial software trading systems with significant hands-on development in optimizing and tuning performance, coupled with critical thinking skills related to re-use, scalability, and troubleshooting.
- Experience delivering solutions with ION Trading, Transficc, or other recognized connectivity vendors.
- Knowledge of major Fixed Income Financial Products (e.g., government/corporate bonds, ETFs, Interest Rate Swaps) and Broker/Customer Markets electronic trading flows.
- Experience with KDB.
- Proficiency in modern software development practices such as Agile development, Test-Driven Development (TDD), Continuous Integration (CI), and Continuous Delivery (CD).
- Experience working in an Agile, globally distributed team using tools like Jira, Bitbucket, Sonar, and TeamCity.
- Familiarity with development tools such as IntelliJ, Gradle, etc.
- Experience with JSON/XML and REST services.
Education
- Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent professional experience.
Competencies
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to effectively interact with business users.
- Strong teamwork skills and the ability to thrive in a distributed global team environment.
- Exceptional analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Self-motivated with a strong determination to learn and achieve goals.
- Experience across the full software development lifecycle.
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## Job Family Group:
Technology
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## Job Family:
Applications Development
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## Time Type:
Full time
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## Most Relevant Skills
Please see the requirements listed above.
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## Other Relevant Skills
For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.
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