Citi

Golang Software Engineering Lead - GenAI platforms - Senior Vice President

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Pune, IndiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and maintain core components of the enterprise GenAI platform.
  • Architect scalable backend services, microservices, APIs, and full-stack features for systems serving more than 180,000 users.
  • Build document-processing pipelines, vector database and semantic-search solutions, agentic capabilities, and multi-agent orchestration.
  • Integrate Claude, Gemini, and proprietary LLMs and optimize AI inference performance, reliability, and cost.
  • Implement real-time AI response streaming using WebSockets and Server-Sent Events.
  • Design Kubernetes/OpenShift deployment patterns, Helm charts, service mesh implementations, and container-based high-availability strategies.
  • Build observability, monitoring, alerting, CI/CD, GitOps, and infrastructure configuration for multiple environments.
  • Participate in production support, incident response, root-cause analysis, and postmortems.
  • Define technical vision and roadmap, guide architectural direction, and make strategic technical decisions across teams.
  • Mentor engineers, develop technical talent, lead high-performing teams, and collaborate with engineering, product, security, business, and AI research leaders.

Requirements

  • Expert-level Go programming with 5+ years of experience and deep knowledge of concurrency patterns.
  • Proficiency with TypeScript/JavaScript and React with 3+ years of full-stack development experience.
  • Advanced knowledge of microservices architecture, API design, RESTful APIs, gRPC, and real-time communication protocols.
  • Deep understanding of Kubernetes/OpenShift, containerization with Docker, Helm charts, Kubernetes operators, and cloud-native deployment patterns.
  • Experience with Istio or other service mesh implementations, infrastructure-as-code, GitOps workflows, and distributed network architecture.
  • Production experience implementing LLM-based applications, prompt engineering, vector databases, semantic search, streaming AI architectures, model integration, fine-tuning, and optimization.
  • Experience with document processing, MongoDB, Redis, S3-compatible object storage, and high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems.
  • Knowledge of observability, CI/CD, automated and performance testing, production incident management, SRE principles, Prometheus, Grafana, and the ELK stack.
  • Knowledge of OAuth/JWT authentication and authorization, Vault secrets management, enterprise security practices, and compliance in regulated industries.
  • 15+ years of overall software development experience, 5+ years in technical leadership, 5+ years with cloud-native architectures, and 3+ years of practical AI/ML systems experience in production.
  • Experience leading teams that build enterprise-scale systems for at least 10,000 users and a demonstrated record of delivering organization-wide technical projects.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Preferred qualifications include micro-frontend and module-federation experience, GraphQL, event-driven architectures, message queuing, load testing, chaos engineering, resilience testing, and multiple programming languages.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model combining in-office and remote work.
  • Full-time role with a two-week sprint and regular-release operating cadence.
  • Opportunity to work with cutting-edge AI/ML infrastructure and cloud-native technologies at global enterprise scale.
  • Research-driven innovation culture with experimentation and rapid prototyping.
  • Visibility to senior leadership in an SVP-level technical leadership role.
  • Collaboration with world-class engineers and AI researchers on enterprise AI transformation.

Tech Stack

DockerGoGrafanaGraphQLgRPCHelmIstioJavaScriptKubernetesMongoDBOpenShiftPrometheusReactRedisTypeScriptVault
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Citi is a public financial-services company offering consumer and institutional banking, credit cards, wealth management, treasury and trade solutions, and capital-markets services. It serves individuals, corporations, financial institutions, and governments in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions, earning interest and fee income from lending, payments, trading, and advisory. Founded in 1812 and headquartered in New York, it trades on the NYSE under the ticker C.

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