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Fixed Income eTrading Tech Overview The evolution of electronic trading and automation has changed the way that Fixed Income 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 Fixed Income 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: Within Citi's Fixed Income eTrading organization, the Post Trade Feed/Straight Through Processing (STP) team is responsible for ensuring the efficient and accurate flow of financial transaction data from execution to settlement. This involves managing and optimizing automated processes that capture, validate, enrich, and transmit trade details across various internal systems and external market participants. Key responsibilities include monitoring trade feeds for completeness and accuracy, identifying and resolving exceptions or breaks in the STP workflow, and collaborating with front office, middle office, and back office teams to enhance process efficiency and reduce operational risk. The team plays a crucial role in maintaining data integrity, improving processing speed, and supporting regulatory compliance by ensuring timely and precise post-trade operations for Fixed Income eTrading activities. This is a dedicated Java backend development team. Members are responsible for designing, building, and maintaining robust and scalable backend systems and services that power the Post Trade Feed/STP processes. This includes developing high-performance Java applications for trade capture, data validation, enrichment, and communication with various internal and external systems. The role involves continuous code optimization, implementing sophisticated logic for exception handling, ensuring system resilience, and leveraging modern Java frameworks and technologies to deliver cutting-edge solutions for the Fixed Income eTrading business. Required: 5+ years of strong hands-on development experience using Java including expertise with Spring or another dependency injection framework 5+ years’ experience in developing and maintaining highly scalable, real-time, low latency, high-volume, scalable microservices 5+ years’ experience with Java 8+, Mongo and Oracle DB, OpenShift, Linux and Solace 3+ years 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 (Redis, Apache Ignite, Gemfire, …) Experience with CI/CD pipelines Test-driven development, including Unit and End-to-End Testing. Education: Bachelor Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems or equivalent work experience ------------------------------------------------------ Job Family Group: Technology ------------------------------------------------------ Job Family: Applications Development ------------------------------------------------------ Time Type: Full time ------------------------------------------------------ Primary Location Full Time Salary Range: $120,800.00 - $170,800.00 ------------------------------------------------------ Most Relevant Skills Please see the requirements listed above. ------------------------------------------------------ Other Relevant Skills Cloud Software, Development Software, Java (Programming Language), Java Spring, Linux, MongoDB, Oracle, Red Hat OpenShift. ------------------------------------------------------ Automated Processing and AI We use automated processing, including artificial intelligence, for our legitimate business interests (or our reasonable and appropriate business purposes) to identify and align the candidate's skills and abilities with a specific job opening. Additionally, if you so choose, or consent, we can match your skills and abilities to other suitable roles at Citi. Importantly, all our hiring processes and decisions, including determining your suitability for a role, are conducted, checked, and decided by individuals. Our automated processing and AI do not involve relying on automatic or autonomous decision-making. Please refer to any Jurisdictional Considerations, with specific provisions for your country (where relevant) for further details. ------------------------------------------------------ This job opening is for an existing job vacancy. ------------------------------------------------------ Citi is an equal opportunity employer, and qualified candidates will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristic protected by law. 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