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 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:**

+ Core Java (5+ years)

+ 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/Cloud deployments

+ 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:**

+ Bachelors 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.