21 days ago
London, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Design and develop reusable, high-performance, low-latency components for the fixed-income algorithmic trading platform.
- Collaborate with traders, quants, and product managers to understand requirements and implement functional enhancements.
- Ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of core algorithmic components.
- Work with wider eTrading teams and production support to maintain and enhance live trading systems.
- Apply stringent engineering standards and deliver best-in-class technical solutions.
Requirements
- Significant hands-on coding experience in Core Java, specializing in low-latency, high-throughput distributed applications.
- Strong understanding of software fundamentals, data structures, design patterns, object-oriented programming, and algorithm complexity analysis.
- Experience with messaging technologies such as Solace and Kafka, plus practical experience with Chronicle and/or Aeron.
- Experience with distributed caching, market-data processing applications, trading applications, back-testing frameworks, and historical data.
- Basic proficiency in Linux system performance tuning and monitoring, including troubleshooting Java/Linux performance issues.
- Familiarity with Gradle, Git, TeamCity, Jenkins, and Artifactory.
- A strong academic record, ideally including a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Science, Engineering, or a related technical or quantitative discipline.
- Strong communication, teamwork, adaptability, self-motivation, and ability to deliver in a fast-paced global environment.
Benefits
- Full-time position in Citi London with a hybrid working model allowing up to two days working from home per week.
- 27 days of annual leave plus bank holidays.
- Discretionary annual performance-related bonus.
- Private medical care and life insurance.
- Employee Assistance Program.
- Pension plan.
- Paid parental leave.
- Employee, family, and friends discounts.
- Access to learning and development resources.
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