Senior Software Engineer - Ultra Low Latency Risk Engine Developer VP - Citi

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Job Overview
Discover your future at Citi
Working at Citi is far more than just a job. A career with us means joining a team of more than 230,000 dedicated people from around the globe. At Citi, you'll have the opportunity to grow your career, give back to your community and make a real impact.

Job Overview
Engineer the future of global finance. At Citi, our Tech team doesn't just support finance - we are helping to redefine it. Every day, $5 trillion crosses through our network. We do business in 180+ countries operating at a scale few can match. From deploying advanced AI to helping shape global markets, we build systems that matter. Look to join a team where your work helps influence economies, your ideas can drive innovation and outcomes, and your growth is backed by mentorship, continuous learning and flexibility with potential hybrid work opportunities. Help solve real-world challenges that touch millions and get the opportunity to build the future of finance with Citi Tech.

Citi's Equities Technology organization is seeking a Senior Software Engineer - Ultra Low Latency Risk Engine Developer to join the Equities Electronic Execution (Electronic Trading) technology team. This role is focused on the design, development, and delivery of Citi's next-generation low-latency Risk Engine for cash equities and its integration into the broader execution platform - encompassing the Centralised Position Service, Client Connectivity, Market Access layers, and high-throughput market data processing.

The engineer will own critical, latency-sensitive risk-checking components that sit directly in the cash equities trading hot path, ensuring pre-trade and real-time risk controls are enforced with microsecond-level performance while maintaining correctness and resiliency at scale. This is a hands-on, deeply technical role that also carries leadership responsibilities - mentoring engineers, driving architecture decisions, and coordinating delivery across global development centers.

The person will collaborate closely with product development, quantitative research, technology infrastructure, production support, and QA teams, with close alignment to global strategy and cross-regional delivery (APAC, EMEA, NAM).

Responsibilities:

• Partner with multiple management teams to ensure appropriate integration of functions to meet goals as well as identify and define necessary system enhancements to deploy new products and process improvements
• Resolve variety of high impact problems/projects through in-depth evaluation of complex business processes, system processes, and industry standards
• Provide expertise in area and advanced knowledge of applications programming and ensure application design adheres to the overall architecture blueprint
• Utilize advanced knowledge of system flow and develop standards for coding, testing, debugging, and implementation
• Develop comprehensive knowledge of how areas of business, such as architecture and infrastructure, integrate to accomplish business goals
• Provide in-depth analysis with interpretive thinking to define issues and develop innovative solutions
• Serve as advisor or coach to mid-level developers and analysts, allocating work as necessary
• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.

• Design, develop, and maintain the ultra low-latency, in-line Risk Engine responsible for real-time pre-trade risk checks, position limits, and exposure controls across cash equities electronic execution flows.

• Architect and optimize high-performance, lock-minimal, multi-threaded components capable of processing risk decisions in the sub-microsecond to low-microsecond range.

• Integrate risk and position components with Client Connectivity, Market Access layers, and high-throughput market data feed handlers.

• Apply deep expertise in JVM performance tuning, memory management, garbage collection avoidance, and/or native (C++/Rust) performance engineering to eliminate latency outliers ("jitter") in t