3 days ago
Base Salary
$142k - $213k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and develop reusable, high-performance, low-latency components for fixed income algorithmic trading platforms.
- Collaborate with traders, quants, and product managers to understand requirements and implement platform enhancements.
- Ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of core algorithmic components.
- Work with eTrading teams and production support to maintain and enhance live trading systems.
- Build and support market data processing, trading, back-testing, and historical data storage capabilities.
- Apply stringent engineering standards and troubleshoot performance issues in the Java/Linux stack.
Requirements
- 8+ years of hands-on coding experience in Java, C++, or Rust, specializing in low-latency, high-throughput distributed applications.
- Strong knowledge of software development 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 storage.
- Basic proficiency in Linux system performance tuning and monitoring.
- Familiarity with Gradle, Git, TeamCity, Jenkins, and Artifactory.
- A strong academic record and ideally a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Science, Engineering, or a related technical or quantitative discipline.
- Strong communication, teamwork, adaptability, and problem-solving skills in a fast-paced global environment.
Benefits
- Full-time position based in New York, New York.
- Base salary range of $142,320.00 to $213,480.00.
- Eligible employees may receive discretionary and formulaic incentive and retention awards.
- Benefits may include medical, dental, and vision coverage; 401(k); life, accident, and disability insurance; wellness programs; vacation, sick leave, and paid holidays.
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.