Senior Java Developer - C12 - Mississauga

Citi, the leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Our core activities are safeguarding assets, lending money, making payments and accessing the capital markets on behalf of our clients.

Citi’s Mission and Value Proposition explain what we do and Strategy explain how we do it. Our mission is to serve as a trusted partner to our clients by responsibly providing financial services that enable growth and economic progress. We strive to earn and maintain our clients’ and the public’s trust by constantly adhering to the highest ethical standards and making a positive impact on the communities we serve.

ICG Rates eTrading Tech Overview

The evolution of electronic trading and automation has changed the way that rates products trade forever; driving a need for real-time, low latency pricing, market making and risk technology.  In this increasingly electronic and competitive landscape, Citi is key player due to its leading eTrading platform and investment in technology.  The Rates Pricing team is at the forefront, by building high-performance low latency technology that supports the execution of billions of dollars of client trades every day. Our competitive advantage is our technology and having a platform that provides exceptional and dependable trading experience.

Job Purpose:

We are currently looking for a talented and passionate Senior Java Developer to continue to evolve our next-generation pricing application.The role requires a detailed understanding of software design/best practices along with a strong technical ability.  

This is an incredible opportunity to build out the next generation of highly performant and flexible pricing systems. The team works closely with end users gaining direct exposure to the fast-paced world of front office trading and finance. 

The role will include following responsibilities:

• Solve complex architectural and business problems in a clean and scalable manner.

• Apply software engineering best practices to produce high performance Java applications.

• Involvement with the full development lifecycle of analysis, design, implementation, testing, deployment and support

• Working directly with Traders and Sales on requirements analysis and capture.

• Troubleshooting challenging performance and scalability issues

• Assisting in third line support during core trading hours

• Gain knowledge and exposure to Front Office Trading Systems, Fixed Income & Quant Libraries.                  

Required Skills:

• 5+ years of development with Core Java.

• Multi-threading and Synchronization on multicore systems

• Solid understanding of Object-Oriented Principles

• Solid architectural understanding of enterprise applications

• Spring/Hibernate

• Relational databases/SQL

• Agile development experience

• Excellent communication skills, oral and written; ability to face off to business users.

• Good team-work skills, and the ability to work in a distributed global team environment

• Strong analytical and problem solving skills

• Self-motivated with the determination to achieve his/her goals

Nice to Have Skills:

• Experience with containerization

• Experience with complex high performance distributed systems & messaging

• Testing frameworks (e.g. JUnit, Mockito, Cucumber)

• Continuous Integration tools (e.g. Jenkins, TeamCity, Sonar)

• Distributed Cache (e.g. Gemfire, EHCache)

• Experience with Unix / Linux

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience

This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.

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