Join Citi's Fixed Income Algo Technology team as a software engineer focused on enhancing algorithmic trading capabilities for the Spread Product business. This role involves close collaboration with traders and quants to address complex business and technology challenges. You will design and develop high-performance trading platform components, ensuring reliability and scalability. Your contributions will have a direct impact on business outcomes and client satisfaction.

• 10+ years of extensive hands-on coding experience in core Java, specializing in low-latency, high-throughput distributed applications.
• Profound understanding of software development fundamentals, data structures, design patterns, object-oriented programming, and algorithms complexity analysis.
• Demonstrated experience with messaging technologies such as Solace and Kafka.
• Practical experience with Chronicle and/or Aeron.
• Experience with distributed caching techniques.
• Proven track record in implementing and supporting market data processing applications and trading applications.
• Experience building robust back-testing frameworks and managing historical data storages.
• Basic proficiency in Linux system performance tuning and monitoring.
• Familiarity with build tools, including Gradle, Git, TeamCity, Jenkins, and Artifactory.
• Strong academic record, ideally with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Science, Engineering, or a related technical or quantitative discipline.

• Design and develop reusable algo trading platform components with a focus on high performance and low latency.
• Collaborate directly with Traders, Quants, and Product Managers to understand business requirements and implement functional enhancements.
• Ensure the strong reliability, scalability, and performance of core algorithmic components.
• Work seamlessly with wider eTrading Teams and Production Support to maintain and enhance live trading systems.
• Adhere to stringent engineering standards, continuously striving for best-in-class solutions and practices.

• Citi offers a comprehensive benefits package including competitive pay, stock programs, healthcare coverage, retirement plans, paid time off, parental leave, and programs supporting employee wellbeing and professional development.