Java Backend Developer

Citigroup Markets & Banking’s FXLM eCommerce team is a high-intensity product development unit that defines, designs and develops critical front-office applications for the Global FX & Local Markets business.

The Senior Developer will be part of the Development team that is responsible to deliver projects within the space of front-office Foreign Exchange (FX), Money Markets (MM), Derivatives, Fixed Incomes (FI) applications including models and Risk Management tools.

Responsibilities:

• Take ownership for delivering the development task assigned.
• Ensure delivery within tight timelines and meeting the team’s expectation.
• Get involved in the entire lifecycle of the development project
• Understand the requirement from Project Lead and ensure quality deliverables.
• Ensure quality and optimized coding with proper documentation
• Do peer code reviews
• Develop unit plan and perform unit testing and provide continuously improved product experience
• Actively assist Support team wherever required
• Assist Project Lead in coordinating with business analysts & user communities to define requirements
• Participate in the technical design
• Actively assist Project Lead to deliver quality output
• Together with the team contribute to innovative & best-in-class solutions for our business

Qualifications:

• 6-9 years of hands on experience in pure technical roles in development of various software applications.
• In depth knowledge and application of Java, J2EE, HTML/CSS, JSP, Angular, Servlets, JDBC, Struts framework, Spring and Micro service
• Thorough understanding of usage of the fundamental concepts like Exception Handling, Static block/variables/classes , OOPS concepts, Collections, Multi-Threading, http sessions, session handling, Servlets/JSP life cycle, JDBC, actions, events, implicit objects, custom tags, context
• Exposure to an industry-standard database (Oracle) on a UNIX platform with awareness of database design and SQL scripting knowledge and performance tuning
• Awareness of unit testing frameworks like JUnit or TestNG
• Awareness of application servers /webservers (JBoss and Tomcat)
• Work experience on the transactional applications for low latency, high availability uses is a plus
• Work experience in technologies like JMS / Kafka is a plus

Education:

• Graduation/Post Graduation qualifications in Engineering stream with a very good academic record throughout from premier institutions.

This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.

Additional Job Description

Job Background/context:

• Global FX and Local Markets (FXLM) is a dynamic and high-performing division of Citi’s Markets business. The eCommerce group within FXLM is a Sales-Product Management-Product Development division headquartered in London, and its development & support teams have recently made Chennai their home. This team manages mission-critical applications that drive deal booking, risk management, eCommerce and analytical applications across multiple asset classes - Foreign Exchange (FX), Money Markets (MM), Fixed Incomes (FI) and Derivatives. The team also provides production support for the various applications and the infrastructure that they run on. The unit in Chennai is led by the Business Head who reports to the Head of eCommerce in London. The Heads of Development, Production Support, Infrastructure, Administration and Business Management report to the Business Head.

• We work on business critical high availability application solutions for the FXLM business that are deployed across 80+ countries and power our global FX & Local Markets business. Our applications are considered amongst the best-in-class within the industry, with our eCommerce and analytical products continuing to win industry awards year after year.

• Our team in India is about 370 strong now and plans to expand to 400+ in the next few quarters. The senior members of the team are permanent staff and we make extensive use of contract staff in our delivery, including at PL level. As part of the expansion, the team is looking to hire top-performing Developers/ Senior Developers with proven track record, reporting to the Development Project Lead.

Development Value:

• This position gives an excellent opportunity for the selected candidate to play a significant role in an exciting and critical business within Citi. As a member of our highly acclaimed Technology team, this role provides the opportunity to participate in and shape the expansion and pre-eminence of our Business working together with our team of highly skilled technologists. The opportunity to work in front-office application space spanning multiple asset classes in a high-velocity & high availability environment is, of itself, an exciting proposition. We believe it is even more special to do this as part of Citi, a premier financial institution that is one of the biggest and best in the market, and as a part of our team that has a high visibility for our work both inside our larger organization as well as in the global Capital Markets world. The position will enable you to leverage Citi’s incomparable geographical reach, product richness, and engineering expertise and to translate these into a successful and top-of-the-class product offering for our customers.