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Citi has made it a priority to foster a culture where the best people want to work, where individuals are promoted based on merit, where we value and demand respect for others and where opportunities to develop are widely available to all. 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 eTrading 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. If you have this kind of vision, capable of seeing ahead, of developing a clear path forward in a quest to try the as yet untried, here is the opportunity.

Job Purpose: We are looking for a talented and passionate individual to join our Full Stack development team. This role involves evolving our next-generation trading applications by contributing to both backend Java services and modern frontend experiences using Angular and NodeJS. The successful candidate will gain valuable exposure to the Electronic Trading business and an opportunity to work on a large scale, modern technology platform with a global presence.

The team works closely with end users gaining direct exposure to the fast paced world of front office trading and finance. Responsibilities: Understanding of good design principles and ability to adhere to complex design standards across the full stack (frontend and backend). Development of common, reusable components and services utilizing Citi's best practices, covering both client-side (Angular, NodeJS) and server-side (Java).

Responsible for creating high performance, low latency applications, both in backend services leveraging existing Citi framework and in responsive, user-friendly frontend interfaces. Ensuring strong reliability, scalability and performance of our components across the entire application stack. Apply an engineering mind-set to development work: understand use-cases in details, develop metrics to build good estimates of volume and compute velocity requirements, understand and discuss openly any implementation limitations or workaround.

Contribute actively to system design decisions for both frontend and backend architectures. Evaluate and build POCs for new strategic initiatives and work to convert to industrial level solutions. Provide post release assistance to business, development and support groups.

Develop application as per best practice and remain compliant with prescribed best practices (TDD, maintain high unit test coverage, CI...). Assisting in third line support during core trading hours. Qualifications: Required: 5+ years of strong hands-on development experience in Java, including expertise with Spring or another dependency injection framework

3+ years of experience with Angular for building modern, responsive web applications. 3+ years of experience with NodeJS for developing scalable server-side applications, APIs, or build tooling. 5+ years' experience in developing and maintaining highly scalable, real-time, low latency, high-volume, scalable microservices.

Experience with real-time messaging middleware (Kafka, RabbitMQ, Solace, Tibco, ...). Experience working with multi-threaded applications. Strong software development fundamentals, data structures, design patterns, Object-Oriented programming, architecture, algorithms, and problem-solving skills

Application deployment and debugging of applications on UNIX/LINUX. Nice to Have: Understanding of capital markets and financial derivatives (rates or other). Experience with system performance tuning and low latency Java programming.

Hands-on experience in database technologies, including RDBMS (Oracle, ...) and No SQL (MongoDB). Experience with In-Memory Datastore/Cache libraries (Sol cache, Redis, Apache Ignite, Gemfire.) Experience with CI/CD pipelines. Test-driven development, including Unit and End-to-End Testing, across both frontend and backend

Familiarity with containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes. Competencies: Strong verbal and written communication skills; ability to face off to business users Self-motivated individual and with determination to achieve goal 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 Ability to work on a fast-pace environment; Flexible and able to deliver quality results in the required timeframe 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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