# VP Engineering – Electronic Trading

Hiring organization: [Citigroup](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/citigroup)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/55778a2f-6ca1-4cc8-b067-14d99a0ff28e

Listed on Citigroup's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Executive
- Salary: 142320 – 213480 USD per year

## Summary

This VP-level role develops and optimizes high-performance, low-latency algorithmic trading systems for equities at a major financial institution. It suits experienced Java architects who have built automated trading infrastructure and thrive on solving complex performance and reliability challenges in financial markets.

_Our summary, not Citigroup's wording._

## Skills named

Agile, Ansible, CI/CD, Java, Java Virtual Machine (JVM), Microservices, Rust

## Required

- 5+ years software development experience
- Expert-level Core Java knowledge including JVM internals, concurrency, garbage collection, and memory management
- Experience designing and developing automated trading systems in equities or similar financial domains
- Understanding of financial market protocols like FIX
- Experience with microservices architecture and distributed systems
- Modern testing frameworks experience
- Agile methodologies and CI/CD experience

## Nice to have

- Familiarity with messaging and data grid technologies like Solace, AMPS, Chronicle, or KDB+
- Infrastructure automation tools like Ansible
- Experience with high-performance languages like Rust
- Master's degree

Apply on Citigroup's site: https://citi.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/2/job/Jersey-City-New-Jersey-United-States/Algorithmic-Trading-Developer---Vice-President_26979414