Equities Quant Platform Engineering Lead - Python (Technology) - VP

Overview

Citi is a world-leading global bank with 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.

What We do / The Team

Are you a passionate and experienced engineering leader eager to build high-impact front office quant tools? Citi's Equities Technology team is undergoing significant growth and investment, specifically within our high-priority systematic trading and analytics systems. We are seeking a hands on Engineering Lead to drive the development of our next-generation quantitative development platform serving the Equities Cash, Derivatives, and Prime businesses.

Role Overview/What will you do

• Champion engineering excellence through hands on feature creation, rigorous code quality via pull request reviews, and by mentoring junior engineers to establish robust coding standards and guardrails.
• Architect scalable, secure re usable components. You'll drive the design process, aligning with or challenging existing blueprints, seeking consensus from senior leads and stakeholders.
• Stay up to date with open source solutions and latest trends to accelerate business outcomes.

Key Skills and Experience required

• Extensive background in delivering production grade, data centric applications for quantitative trading and analytics, with demonstrated expertise in:
  • The python data engineering stack (Polars, Parquet, FastAPI, Jupyter, Airflow, Streamlit, Ray)
  • High performance data stores and query engines (Starburst, Snowflake)
  • Real time streaming analytics technologies (Kafka, Flink)
  • Cloud container technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes)
• Proven success in enhancing developer experience that reduces friction in coding, building and deploying APIs and client libraries.
• Real world application of generative AI prompt engineering and RAG pipelines.
• Full stack HTML5 web development skills.

Desired Skills

• Understanding of Equities Cash, D1 & Deriv market mechanics and products via sell side trading projects
• Familiarity with low latency programming languages such as Rust or C++

What we'll provide you

By joining Citi London, 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 receive a competitive base salary (which is annually reviewed), and enjoy a whole host of additional benefits such as:

• 27 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
• A discretional annual performance related bonus
• Private Medical Care & Life Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Pension Plan
• Paid Parental Leave
• Special discounts for employees, family, and friends
• Access to an array of learning and development resources

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