Java Backend Developer

Java Backend Developer – Assistant Vice President Fixed Income ETrading Tech Overview The evolution of electronic trading and automation has changed the way that Fixed Income products trade forever. It drives a need for real‑time, low‑latency pricing, market making, and risk technology. In this increasingly electronic and competitive landscape, Citi is a key player due to its leading eTrading platform and investment in technology. The Fixed Income eTrading team is at the forefront, 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 an 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 untried—here is the opportunity. Job Purpose Within Citi's Fixed Income eTrading organization, the Post Trade Feed/Straight Through Processing (STP) team ensures 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. Role Overview 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 Qualifications 5+ years of hands‑on Java development experience, including expertise with Spring or another dependency injection framework 5+ years’ experience developing and maintaining highly scalable, real‑time, low‑latency, high‑volume microservices Experience with real‑time messaging middleware (Kafka, RabbitMQ, Solace, Tibco, etc.) Experience working with multi‑threaded applications Strong software development fundamentals, data structures, design patterns, OOP, 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, etc.) and NoSQL (MongoDB) Experience with in‑memory datastore/cache libraries (Redis, Apache Ignite, Gemfire, etc.) Experience with CI/CD pipelines Test‑driven development, including unit and end‑to‑end testing Competencies Strong verbal and written communication skills; ability to engage business users Self‑motivated 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 thrive in a fast‑paced environment; flexible and able to deliver quality results within required timeframes Job Family Group: Technology Job Family: Applications Development Time Type: Full time Primary Location Full Time Salary Range: $94,300.00 – $141,500.00 Referral opportunities: Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at Citi by 2x. Citizenship: Citi is an equal‑opportunity employer and qualified candidates will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you are a person with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation to use our search tools and/or apply for a career opportunity, please review Citi’s accessibility information. View Citi’s EEO Policy Statement and the Know Your Rights poster. Seniority level: Not Applicable Employment type: Full‑time Job function: Engineering and Information Technology Industries: Banking, Financial Services, and Investment Banking #J-18808-Ljbffr