3 months ago
Base Salary
$142k - $213k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and optimize high-performance, low-latency microservices and applications for the electronic trading platform.
- Implement complex trading logic, performance enhancements, and system improvements for stable, scalable, and efficient execution systems.
- Lead technical design discussions and conduct rigorous code reviews.
- Partner with product development, quantitative research, and technology teams to deliver trading capabilities.
- Improve testing frameworks, development tools, and deployment processes for low-latency systems.
- Analyze complex business and technical requirements and resolve challenging system issues.
- Apply expertise in system architecture, data flow, coding, testing, debugging, and implementation.
- Build and maintain monitoring, trade reconciliation, and application recovery solutions.
- Manage technology and control risks in compliance with applicable laws, policies, and regulations.
Requirements
- 5+ years of hands-on software development experience focused on high-performance, low-latency systems.
- Expert Core Java knowledge, including JVM internals, concurrency, garbage collection, and memory management.
- Experience designing and developing automated trading systems or electronic execution platforms in equities or related financial domains.
- Understanding of financial market protocols such as FIX and experience with order and market datasets.
- Experience with microservices architecture and distributed systems.
- Experience with modern testing frameworks, Agile methodologies, and CI/CD processes.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to explain and understand complex technical and business concepts.
- Familiarity with Solace, AMPS, Chronicle, and Ansible is preferred.
- Bachelor’s or university degree, or equivalent experience; master’s degree preferred.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- 401(k) benefits.
- Life, accident, and disability insurance.
- Wellness programs.
- Paid vacation, sick leave, and holidays.
- Full-time position based in Jersey City, New Jersey.
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.