17 hours ago
London, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain low-latency Rust or Java applications and frameworks for algorithmic trading and eTrading platforms.
- Build and enhance event-sourced systems and application utilities for market data replay, back-testing, and simulation.
- Integrate functions, deploy new products, enhance processes, and solve complex business and system problems.
- Analyze application flows, industry standards, and user requirements to define and implement system solutions.
- Perform performance assessment and targeted tuning for systems with response times in the 10 to 100 microsecond range.
- Consult with end users, communicate with senior leaders and external parties, and contribute to system design.
- Mentor junior developers and less experienced senior Java developers.
- Produce clear technical documentation and UML sequence diagrams when needed.
Requirements
- Demonstrated subject matter expertise in application development.
- In-depth experience developing algorithmic trading applications, preferably in low-latency environments.
- Detailed experience handling market data and using associated technologies such as KDB time-series databases.
- Strong commercial Java development experience, including modern Java, the JVM, Linux, system calls, and the kernel.
- Knowledge of TCP and other IP-based networking protocols, including hardware-accelerated kernel bypass technologies such as Solarflare OpenOnload.
- Experience with Rust, Java, and low-latency application frameworks; C++ experience is preferred.
- Demonstrated leadership, project management, software development, and performance-tuning skills.
- Experience implementing projects and designing elegant, robust, mission-critical systems.
- Strong communication, relationship-building, consensus-building, and mentoring skills.
Benefits
- Hybrid working model with up to 2 days working from home per week.
- 27 days of annual leave plus bank holidays.
- Private medical care and life insurance.
- Employee Assistance Program, pension plan, and paid parental leave.
- Discretionary annual performance-related bonus and additional employee, family, and friends discounts.
- Access to learning and development resources.
About Citi
Citi is a public financial-services company offering consumer and institutional banking, credit cards, wealth management, treasury and trade solutions, and capital-markets services. It serves individuals, corporations, financial institutions, and governments in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions, earning interest and fee income from lending, payments, trading, and advisory. Founded in 1812 and headquartered in New York, it trades on the NYSE under the ticker C.