Algo Trading Java Developer, Citi

Citi

Location:
United States, New York

Category:
IT - Software Development

Contract Type:
Employment contract

Salary:

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Job Description:

The role supports Citi’s Internal Market Making, Algorithmic Trading, and internal matching for the Spread Product algo trading business, involving working directly with trading and quants to create a next-generation algo trading platform.

Job Responsibility:

Develop reusable algo trading engines with focus on low latency execution strategies
Ensure strong reliability, scalability and performance of the core algo components
Work with other etrading teams to support live trading
Learn and maintain large code base, improve design and quality of the algo trading strategies code
Partner with business to drive technology stack beyond near term objectives
Adhere to engineering standards and strive for best in class solutions

Requirements:

Strong software development fundamentals, data structures, design patterns, object-oriented programming, algorithms complexity analysis
At least 2 years of extensive hands on coding experience in Core Java within low latency, high throughput distributed applications
Experience with messaging technologies like Solace, Kafka etc.
Experience with Chronicle and/or Aeron
Experience implementing and supporting market data processing applications and algorithmic trading strategies
Experience building backtesting frameworks and historical data storages
Basic Linux system performance tuning and monitoring, ability to troubleshoot performance issues within Java/Linux stack
Working knowledge of no GC Java techniques and lock free thread safe algorithms
Experience with Python, Spring, TDD, KDB or any other tick data storages
Build tools, gradle, git, teamcity, jenkins, artifactory
Strong academic record, ideally with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Science, engineering or related technical or quantitative discipline

Nice to have:

Experience with Chronicle and/or Aeron
Experience implementing and supporting market data processing applications and algorithmic trading strategies
Experience building backtesting frameworks and historical data storages
Working knowledge of no GC Java techniques and lock free thread safe algorithms
Experience with Python, Spring, TDD, KDB or any other tick data storages

What we offer:

Medical, dental & vision coverage
401(k)
life, accident & disability insurance
wellness programs
paid time off packages including vacation, sick leave, and paid holidays

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
May 23, 2025

Expiration:
August 01, 2025

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Hybrid work

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