1 day ago
London, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain mission-critical backend applications supporting derivatives market data, pricing, and trading.
- Provide technical leadership to an AI-enabled development team, mentor developers, and establish coding, testing, CI/CD, and AI-usage practices.
- Partner with technology teams, traders, quants, and end users to deliver production-grade applications and services.
- Translate complex business requirements into detailed technical specifications.
- Drive modernization and cloud/container migration using JVM-based services.
- Improve system performance, scalability, reliability, and observability while identifying and mitigating software-development risks.
Requirements
- Strong software engineering experience with Java and/or Kotlin for enterprise-grade, cloud-hosted systems.
- Extensive backend application design, development, and implementation experience, preferably in financial services.
- Experience delivering mission-critical capabilities directly for end users or trading desks from concept through production.
- Practical experience with agentic AI development tools and patterns and with deploying applications on cloud platforms.
- Understanding of concurrent and distributed design patterns and system architecture.
- Proficiency in Python, messaging technologies such as Kafka, Solace, or TIBCO, and observability technologies such as OpenTelemetry, Elastic Stack/ELK, or Grafana is advantageous.
- Experience with multithreading, parallel task programming, and Domain-Driven Design is advantageous.
- Understanding of derivatives pricing and risk management, preferably in equities markets, is advantageous.
- Bachelor’s or university degree in engineering, computer science, mathematics, physics, or a related quantitative discipline, or equivalent experience; a master’s degree is preferred.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and interpersonal skills.
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About Citi
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.