Full Stack Tech Engineering Lead

Citigroup Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 142,000 - 213,000; Full time

Job summary

Citi in New York is seeking a Full Stack Tech Engineering Lead (VP) to own the end-to-end technical strategy for a global cash & intraday liquidity platform. You will design multi-region, high-availability systems, drive an AI-first engineering culture, and mentor a dispersed team of engineers, architects, and product managers.

You will stay hands-on in architectural reviews, advance microservices and cloud-native deployment, ensure regulatory compliance, and partner with risk, compliance, and

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering with hands-on leadership.
• Experience designing highly available multi-region distributed systems.
• Proficiency in Java and Spring Boot for microservices and APIs.
• Full stack fluency: ReactJS front-end, Java back-end, data stores.
• 6+ years leading globally distributed engineering teams.
• Experience with CI/CD, test-driven development, and modern tooling.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end technical strategy and multi-year roadmap for a global liquidity platform.
• Design and deliver highly available, multi-region distributed systems.
• Drive AI-first engineering culture and embed LLM tooling into practices.
• Lead and develop a global engineering organization across geographies.
• Stay hands-on in design reviews, code quality, and architectural decisions.
• Partner with risk, compliance, and infra teams to embed security and DR controls.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Microservices

APIs

Event-driven

ReactJS

Kubernetes

Docker

OpenShift

CI/CD

JUnit

GitHub Actions

Kafka

AI tooling

CoPilot/Claude

Tools

Kafka

IBM MQ

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Oracle

MongoDB

OpenShift

Job description

Full Stack Tech Engineering Lead - VP – New York

Overview of Citi:

Citi is a world-leading global bank. We have approximately 200 million customer accounts and a presence in more than 100 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.

Overview of the organization:

The COO Enterprise Solution Engineering capability is responsible for the design and development of best‑in‑class technology platforms for Operations, including development of an integrated portfolio of Operations tools, end‑to‑end solution design for large scale transformation initiatives, design governance, and adoption of Generative AI solutions for driving operational efficiencies.

Role:

We are hiring a software engineer to design and lead a critical Cash & Intraday Liquidity Management platform. This platform sits at the intersection of engineering ambition and real‑world financial impact — for a wide range of internal and external consumers. This is a rare opportunity for a hands‑on engineering leader to own a multi‑year technical roadmap, build and scale a world‑class global engineering organization, and deliver AI‑first, cloud‑native systems that operate with the highest standards of availability across multiple geographies and regulatory environments. If you are energized by hard engineering problems, thrive at the intersection of technical depth and organizational scale, and want your work to matter at a global level — this role is built for you.

Responsibilities:

• Own the end-to-end technical strategy and multi-year roadmap for a foundational cash & intraday liquidity management platform — making architectural decisions that determine how a high-throughput, multi-consumer API ecosystem evolves across global markets.
• Design and deliver highly available, fault-tolerant distributed systems across multiple geographic regions, with architectures that maintain platform continuity, data sovereignty compliance, and consistent service levels across jurisdictions with differing regulatory requirements.
• Drive an AI-first engineering culture — embedding LLM tooling into both the platform and the team's day-to-day engineering practices to accelerate delivery velocity and raise the quality bar.
• Lead, grow, and develop a global engineering organization of engineers, architects and product managers — building a team environment where technical craft, accountability, and continuous improvement are the standard.
• Stay hands-on in design reviews, code quality, and technical decision-making — providing direct engineering guidance on microservices design, cloud-native deployment, distributed systems patterns, and API development.
• Partner with risk, compliance, and infrastructure teams to embed security controls, disaster recovery planning, and audit-ready practices across all operating regions — ensuring the platform meets regulatory obligations without compromising engineering agility.

Required Skills, Knowledge & Experience

• 6+ years of software engineering and technology hands‑on experience, with at least 4 years in enterprise-grade, high-traffic applications — this is a hands‑on technical leader role, and architectural decisions are made by someone who can build.
• Demonstrated expertise designing and operating highly available, multi-region distributed systems — including active-active and active-passive topologies, data residency controls, disaster recovery strategies, and cross-jurisdictional regulatory compliance architecture.
• Deep hands‑on proficiency in Java, Spring Boot, with practical experience building microservices, APIs, and event-driven systems using Apache Kafka, IBM MQ or equivalent high-throughput messaging platforms.
• Fluency across the full engineering stack — front-end (ReactJS), back-end (Java, Spring), data stores (Oracle, MongoDB), and containerized cloud-native infrastructure (Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift, public cloud).
• Minimum 6 years leading globally distributed engineering teams, with the ability to set technical direction, drive delivery accountability, and develop engineering talent across multiple geographies and regulatory contexts.
• Expertise in CI/CD, test-driven development, and modern engineering tooling — including JUnit, JMeter, Mockito, Cucumber, Jenkins, and GitHub Actions — applied consistently to maintain engineering quality at scale.

• Experience in using AI coding assistants such as CoPilot, Devin, Claude Code or equivalent.
• Strong stakeholder management skills — experience navigating complex, matrixed organizations and driving alignment across business, technology, and operations
• Demonstrated ability to structure and lead product working groups, driving consensus on requirements and facilitating the development and implementation of processes, data, and system designs.
• Proven ability to attract, develop, and retain top engineering talent in a competitive market
• Experience operating in Agile delivery frameworks at enterprise scale, with a bias for continuous delivery and iterative value creation

Job Family Group:

Technology

Job Family:

Applications Development

Time Type:

Full time

Primary Location:

New York New York United States

Primary Location Full Time Salary Range:

$142,320.00 - $213,480.00

Citi’s offerings may also include, for eligible employees, discretionary and formulaic incentive and retention awards. Citi offers competitive employee benefits, including: medical, dental & vision coverage; 401(k); life, accident, and disability insurance; and wellness programs. Citi also offers paid time off packages, including planned time off (vacation), unplanned time off (sick leave), and paid holidays. For additional information regarding Citi employee benefits, please visit citibenefits.com. Available offerings may vary by jurisdiction, job level, and date of hire.

Most Relevant Skills

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Other Relevant Skills

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Anticipated Posting Close Date:

Sep 22, 2026

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