Applications Development Sr Programmer Analyst Job at Citi (Mississauga)

Job Description

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.

Job Responsibility

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

Requirements

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
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
Strong verbal and written communication skills
ability to face off to business users
Self-motivated individual and with determination to achieve goals
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
Bachelor's degree/University degree or equivalent experience

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

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