Equities Quant Platform Engineering Lead, Citi

Equities Quant Platform Engineering Lead

Citi

Location:
United Kingdom, London

Category:
IT - Software Development

Contract Type:
Not provided

Salary:

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Job Description:

Citi's Equities Technology team is undergoing significant growth and investment, specifically within systematic trading and analytics systems. The role involves guiding technical direction and implementing a next-generation quantitative platform for Equities Cash, Derivatives, and Prime businesses.

Job Responsibility:

Championing engineering excellence through hands-on feature creation, rigorous code quality via pull request reviews, and mentoring junior engineers
architecting scalable, secure re-usable components
driving 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

Requirements:

Extensive background in delivering production-grade, data-centric applications for quantitative trading and analytics
demonstrated expertise in 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 reducing 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

Nice to have:

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 offer:

27 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
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 learning and development resources

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
June 11, 2025

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Hybrid work

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