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

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.

As the Engineering Lead, you will guide the technical direction and implementation of the platform. This involves:

• Championing engineering excellence through hands-on feature creation, rigorous code quality via pull request reviews, and mentoring junior engineers to establish robust coding standards and guardrails.
• Architecting scalable, secure reusable components.
• Driving the design process, aligning with or challenging existing blueprints, seeking consensus from senior leads and stakeholders.
• Staying up to date with open-source solutions and latest trends to accelerate business outcomes.

Responsibilities / Key Skills and Experience:

• 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)

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++.

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 discretionary 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

Alongside these benefits, Citi is committed to ensuring our workplace is where everyone feels comfortable coming to work as their whole self, every day. We want the best talent around the world to be energized to join us, motivated to stay and empowered to thrive.

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