Citi's Fixed Income Algo Technology team in North America needs to advance its suite of algo trading platforms to create a best-in-class, next-generation product for clients, solving both business and technology problems with a direct impact on the business.
Requirements
- 6-10 years of extensive Low Latency Java development experience in front office / trading required
- Rust experience is advantageous
- Strong software development fundamentals, data structures, design patterns, object-oriented programming, algorithms complexity analysis
- At least 2 years of extensive hands on coding experience in Core Java within low latency, high throughput distributed applications
- Experience with messaging technologies like Solace, Kafka etc.
- Experience with Chronicle and/or Aeron
- Experience implementing and supporting market data processing applications and algorithmic trading strategies
Responsibilities
- Develop reusable algo trading engines with focus on low latency execution strategies
- Ensure strong reliability, scalability and performance of the core algo components
- Work with other etrading teams to support live trading
- Learn and maintain large code base, improve design and quality of the algo trading strategies code
- Partner with business to drive technology stack beyond near term objectives
- Adhere to engineering standards and strive for best in class solutions
Other
- Strong verbal and written communication skills; ability to communicate with business users
- Self-motivated individual with determination to achieve goals
- Willingness to learn, both technically and professionally
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Good team working skills and ability to work in a distributed global team environment
