Lead Full-Stack Engineer for AI-Driven FinTech Platform

Citi; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 121,000 - 171,000; Full time

Job summary

Citi is seeking a Full Stack Lead Engineer to own the end-to-end technical strategy for a cash and intraday liquidity platform. You will design highly available, multi-region microservices and drive an AI-first engineering culture across a global team.

Responsibilities include architecture reviews, cloud-native deployment, data sovereignty, and strong collaboration with risk, compliance, and infrastructure teams to ensure regulatory adherence while delivering high-quality software at scale.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering experience designing and operating highly available, multi-region distributed systems.
• Proficiency in Java and Spring Boot with microservices and APIs; experience with Kafka or MQ messaging.
• Full stack coverage: ReactJS frontend, Java/Spring backend, data stores, and cloud-native infra.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end technical strategy and multi-year roadmap for a foundational cash & intraday liquidity platform across global markets.
• Design and deliver highly available, fault-tolerant distributed systems across multiple regions with data sovereignty and regulatory compliance.
• Drive an AI-first engineering culture by embedding LLM tooling into the platform and engineering practices.
• Lead and develop a global engineering organization of engineers, architects and product managers with emphasis on craft and delivery.
• Stay hands-on in architecture reviews, code quality, and decision-making for microservices, cloud-native deployment, and API development.
• Partner with risk, compliance, and infrastructure teams to embed security, disaster recovery, and audit-ready practices.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Microservices

APIs

Apache Kafka

IBM MQ

ReactJS

Oracle

MongoDB

Kubernetes

Docker

OpenShift

Public Cloud

CI/CD

JUnit

JMeter

Mockito

Cucumber

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

AI coding assistants

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

OpenShift

IBM MQ

Oracle

MongoDB

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Kafka

Job description

Citi is seeking a Full Stack Lead Engineer to own the end-to-end technical strategy for a cash and intraday liquidity platform. You will design highly available, multi-region microservices and drive an AI-first engineering culture across a global team.

Responsibilities include architecture reviews, cloud-native deployment, data sovereignty, and strong collaboration with risk, compliance, and infrastructure teams to ensure regulatory adherence while delivering high-quality software at scale.