Java Software Engineer

Citi is a world-leading global bank. We have approximately 200 million customer accounts and a presence in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions worldwide. We provide consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management. We enable clients to achieve their strategic financial objectives by providing them with cutting‑edge ideas, best-in‑class products and solutions, and unparalleled access to capital and liquidity.

Citi Belfast is one of the largest employers in Northern Ireland with a diverse and talented team of over 4000 people from over 68 different nationalities across our four Belfast offices. We are the only global investment bank operating in Northern Ireland. Every day, our local experts interact with global teams in over 100 countries developing and supporting next‑generation technology solutions for the enterprise and delivering critical services to the bank and its customers, to make sure we are a stronger and safer organisation for our clients.

You will have a truly global reach, which will provide you with new experiences and development opportunities right here in Belfast’s iconic Titanic Quarter.

The Global Fixed Income Trade Processing (FiTP) Team is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Java) with a proven track record of design and developing large, complex and distributed systems.

The successful individual will ideally have a good knowledge of Fixed Income products and experience in building software systems to handle the capture and processing of high volume of such trades.

In this fast paced environment you must be able to prioritize tasks, work within deadlines, taking a pragmatic and thoughtful approach, paying close attention to details. You will need to employ strong communication skills, necessary to effectively produce client solutions.

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

• Bachelor’s degree with a relevant major (Computer Science, Information Technology, Mathematics, Engineering, or similar)
• 5+ years of experience in design and development of high performance, low‑latency, multi‑threaded applications.
• Extensive hands‑on development experience in Java.
• Demonstrated ability to learn new business concepts and technologies.
• Ability to work under pressure and manage deadlines or unexpected changes in expectations or requirements.

• Solid understanding of software development fundamentals including data structures, design patterns and object‑oriented programming.
• Proficiency in core Java (5+ years of experience) with demonstrable success in developing multi‑threaded applications and expert level knowledge in data structures, algorithms, collections, and error handling.
• Spring Framework (and Spring Boot):
  This is almost non‑negotiable for enterprise Java development. Expertise in Spring Boot for rapid application development, Spring MVC for web applications, Spring Data JPA for persistence, and Spring Security for authentication/authorization.
• Microservices Architecture:
  Understanding how to design, develop, and deploy independent, loosely coupled services, which is a common pattern for applications running on ECS.
• RESTful APIs:
  Designing, developing, and consuming RESTful web services using Java and Spring Boot.
• Build Tools:
  Maven or Gradle for project management and build automation.
• Proven ability to develop clean, testable code.
• Understanding of relational database concepts and knowledge in SQL.
• Experience with Jira, Git/Bitbucket, Gradle and CI/CD tools, e.g. Team City and Urban Code Deploy.
• Experience with Linux/Unix.
• Knowledge on cloud technologies e.g. Artifactory, Docker and Open Shift.
• Knowledge of fixed income products, customer and broker market platforms and trading protocols desirable.

By joining Citi, you will not only be part of a business casual workplace with a hybrid working model (up to 2 days working at home per week), but also…