Senior Java Software Engineer – FX Options Risk (VP)

Citibank (Switzerland) AG; Greater London; On-site; Confidential; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

27 days annual leave

Discretional annual bonus

Private medical care

Life Insurance

Employee assistance program

Pension plan

Parental leave

Employee discounts

Learning resources

Job summary

Citi is seeking a Senior Java Software Engineer for FX Options Risk (VP) to design, develop, and optimize our high-throughput, real-time risk system. You will work on low-latency processing, collaborate with the FX Options Trading desk, and guide the team with architectural excellence.

The role requires deep Core Java expertise, experience with real-time streaming, and familiarity with containerization and cloud platforms. A hybrid work model and comprehensive benefits are offered.

Qualifications

• Extensive Java development in low-latency, distributed environments.
• Strong FX trading knowledge or real-time risk systems experience is highly preferred.
• Proven track record as an individual contributor delivering high-throughput distributed systems.
• Hands-on with real-time stream processing and distributed data architectures (Kafka/Storm).
• Familiar with modern infrastructure, containerization and cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and optimize FX real-time risk infrastructure for high performance and availability.
• Provide architectural input, code reviews, and mentorship to engineers.
• Collaborate with FX trading desk and risk managers to translate requirements into software designs.
• Drive technical strategy as the risk platform modernizes and migrates.
• Ensure security, scalability, and stability across the portfolio.

Skills

Core Java

Multi-threading

Concurrency

Memory optimization

Garbage collection tuning

Real-time risk systems

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Kafka

Apache Storm

CouchbaseDB/NoSQL

Spring

OpenShift/Kubernetes

GCP/AWS

Job description

Senior Java Software Engineer – FX Options Risk (VP)

This position is responsible for designing, developing, and optimizing our mission-critical, high-throughput FX real-time risk system. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will leverage your deep technical expertise to drive the architectural evolution of low-latency processing systems, solve complex engineering challenges, and provide technical guidance to the engineering team. In this front-office facing role, you will collaborate closely with the FX Options Trading desk, translating business needs into robust, scalable, real-time software solutions.

Responsibilities

Technical Execution & Architecture Design, implement, and optimize critical FX real-time risk infrastructure, ensuring high performance, minimal latency, and high availability. Drive key technical deliverables and champion code quality, modern development practices, and robust system design patterns within the team. Provide expert architectural input and contribute to the technical strategy as we modernize and onboard to the bank's strategic risk platform. Collaborate with engineering partners to establish design standards, conduct deep code reviews, and provide technical mentorship to mid-level and junior engineers.

Stakeholder Collaboration & Domain Expertise

Serve as a key technical Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the FX Options Trading desk, trading leadership, and risk managers, translating quantitative and trading requirements into concrete software designs. Act as a dependable technical partner to front-office stakeholders, offering advanced analysis and fast, decisive troubleshooting for complex real-time system behaviors or critical production incidents. Appropriately assess risk when technical and architectural decisions are made, ensuring all solutions adhere to corporate security, scalability, and stability standards to safeguard Citigroup, its clients, and assets.

Hands-on Development

Contribute hands-on as a primary engineer utilizing our modern tech stack: Core Java (multi-threading, concurrency, memory optimization), CouchbaseDB, Kafka, and Apache Storm. Solve complex real-time risk calculation requirements, handling heavy stream processing and highly concurrent data flows.

Required Experience

extensive development experience, with a strong focus on enterprise Java within highly parallel, low-latency, or distributed environments. Strong financial knowledge of FX trading, options pricing, or real-time risk systems is highly preferred / obligatory. Proven track record as a high-performing Individual Contributor (IC) delivering complex, high-throughput distributed systems in production environments. Deep hands-on expertise in Core Java, including multi-threading, memory management, garbage collection tuning, and concurrency utilities. Solid experience with real-time stream processing and distributed data architectures (e.g., Kafka, Apache Storm, CouchbaseDB/NoSQL, Spring). Familiarity with modern infrastructure paradigms, such as containerization (OpenShift/Kubernetes) and cloud platforms (GCP/AWS) is highly advantageous. Understanding of AI, machine learning, or advanced quantitative analytics applications in financial systems is a strong plus.

Outstanding Communication and Collaboration Skills

Outstanding communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to interact confidently and explain complex technical concepts to non-technical business partners, including trading desk heads.

Education

Bachelor's degree/University degree or equivalent experience

What we’ll provide you

By joining Citi, 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
• Visit ourGlobal Benefitspage to learn more.

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.

Job Family Group: Technology

Job Family: Applications Development

Time Type: Full time

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