Citi is seeking a highly motivated and curious engineer to join Fixed Income Trading Services as a trading tool developer embedded within the Systematic & Credit Portfolio Trading business. This role is based directly on the trading floor, offering a unique opportunity for in-person collaboration with traders, quants, and product development teams. In this role, you will rapidly iterate on revenue-generating and risk-reducing trading and analytics tooling, gain deep understanding of the business context, and balance strategic platform builds with immediate tactical needs.
Requirements
- 6–10 years of experience in application development or systems analysis, including 5+ years of Front-End/UI development experience
- Strong hands-on experience with modern front-end technologies and frameworks such as HTML5, React, and/or Angular
- 3–5 years of experience building large-scale, distributed applications using Python or Java, including backend services supporting real-time or data-intensive workflows
- Experience building trading, pricing, or real-time analytics applications in low-latency, high-throughput environments
- Prior experience supporting Credit markets or other secondary trading businesses
- Proven experience with micro-front end architectures, reusable UI frameworks, and contextualization technologies (e.g., FDC3)
- Strong understanding of scalable UI architecture, UX best practices, and secure front-end development
- Experience integrating front-end applications with RESTful APIs and event-driven or messaging/data platforms (e.g., Kafka, Solace, Redis, Elasticsearch, Pinot)
- Proficiency with source control tools such as Git
- Solid understanding of SDLC concepts and experience operating in Agile and Waterfall delivery models
- Demonstrated leadership, ownership mindset, and ability to operate autonomously in a desk-embedded, fast-paced trading environment
- Excellent written, verbal, and visual communication skills across both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Proven ability to rapidly learn the business context, reprioritize, and deliver both strategic builds and tactical solutions under tight timelines
Benefits
- medical, dental & vision coverage
- 401(k)
- life, accident, and disability insurance
- wellness programs
- paid time off packages, including planned time off (vacation), unplanned time off (sick leave), and paid holidays