VP Java/Kotlin Engineer - Equity Derivatives & AI Tech

Citi Group; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Citigroup Inc. is hiring for a senior backend software engineer in the City of Westminster. The role focuses on leading an Agile/AI-enabled team delivering production-grade, cloud-hosted services for equities platforms.

You will collaborate with traders, quants and tech teams to implement high-quality solutions, drive SDLC improvements and evolve architectures with AI tooling and microservices.

Qualifications

• Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, or a related quantitative discipline.
• Master's degree preferred.
• Strong software engineering background with Java/Kotlin and cloud-native systems.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership to an Agile/AI powered development team, mentoring developers and establishing best practices for coding, testing, CI/CD, AI usage.
• Partner with tech teams, traders and quants to deliver production-grade applications and services.
• Drive a culture of quality and continuous improvement in SDLC and DevOps, using metrics to boost efficiency.
• Translate complex business requirements into detailed technical specifications.
• Proactively identify, mitigate, and solve complex risks throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Improve system performance, scalability, reliability, observability.

Skills

Java

Kotlin

Python

Cloud platforms

DevOps

Agile

Microservices

AI tooling

Education

Engineering/CS/Math/Physics degree

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Kafka

OpenTelemetry

ELK

Grafana

Job description

Citigroup Inc. is hiring for a senior backend software engineer in the City of Westminster. The role focuses on leading an Agile/AI-enabled team delivering production-grade, cloud-hosted services for equities platforms.

You will collaborate with traders, quants and tech teams to implement high-quality solutions, drive SDLC improvements and evolve architectures with AI tooling and microservices.