Equities Quant Platform Engineering Lead, Citi

Citi

Location:
United Kingdom, London

Category:
IT - Software Development

Contract Type:
Employment contract

Salary:

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Job Description:

Citi is seeking an Engineering Lead to drive the development of a next-generation quantitative development platform within its Equities Technology team. Responsibilities include leading technical direction, mentoring engineers, and contributing to feature creation. The role involves expertise in Python, cloud container technologies, and real-time analytics. Familiarity with Equities Cash and Deriv market mechanics is a plus. The position offers a hybrid workplace, competitive salary, and numerous benefits.

Job Responsibility:

Championing engineering excellence through hands-on feature creation
Rigorous code quality via pull request reviews
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.

Requirements:

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

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)
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.

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
August 01, 2025

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Hybrid work

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