Overview

Citi is a world-leading global bank. We have approximately 200 million customer accounts and a presence in more than 160 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.

What We do / The Team

Are you a passionate and experienced engineering leader eager to build high-impact front office quant tools? Citi's Equities Technology team is undergoing significant growth and investment, specifically within our high-priority systematic trading and analytics systems. We are seeking a hands-on Engineering Lead to drive the development of our next-generation quantitative development platform serving the Equities Cash, Derivatives, and Prime businesses.

This is a unique opportunity to make a significant impact as the platform enters its key growth phase. You will be instrumental in shaping critical capabilities including building an event-driven equity options back tester and AI-powered data agents delivering market intelligence via rich dashboards. If you thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment and have a passion for markets and quantitative research, we want to hear from you!

Role Overview/What will you do:

As the Engineering Lead, you'll guide the technical direction and implementation of the platform. This involves:

• Championing engineering excellence through hands-on feature creation, rigorous code quality via pull request reviews, and by mentoring junior engineers to establish robust coding standards and guardrails.
• Architecting scalable, secure re-usable components. You'll drive the design process, aligning with or challenging existing blueprints, seeking consensus from senior leads and stakeholders.
• Staying up to date with open-source solutions and latest trends to accelerate business outcomes.

Key Skills and Experience required

• Extensive background in delivering production-grade, data-centric applications for quantitative trading and analytics, with demonstrated expertise in:
• The python data engineering stack (Polars, Parquet, FastAPI, Jupyter, Airflow, Streamlit, Ray)
• High-performance data stores and query engines (Starburst, Snowflake)
• Real-time streaming analytics technologies (Kafka, Flink)
• Cloud container technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes)
• Proven success in enhancing developer experience that reduces friction in coding, building and deploying APIs and client libraries.
• Real-world application of generative AI prompt engineering and RAG pipelines.
• Full-stack HTML5 web development skills.

Desired Skills:

• Understanding of Equities Cash, D1 & Deriv market mechanics and products via sell-side trading projects
• Familiarity with low-latency programming languages such as Rust or C++

What we can offer you:

By joining Citi Solutions Center Poland, you will not only be part of a business casual workplace with a hybrid working model (currently up to 2 days working at home per week), but also (potentially, subject to final offer) receive a competitive base salary and enjoy a whole host of additional benefits which can include:

• Employer paid Defined Contribution Pension Plan contribution of 6% of employee’s pensionable earnings (PPE Program)

• Employer paid Private Medical Care Package for employees and Private Medical Care Packages for certain family members available at preferential rates

• Employer paid Life Insurance Program for employees and Life Insurance for certain family members available at preferential rates

• Employee Assistance Program financed by Employer

• Paid Parental Leave Program (maternity and paternity leave; statutory and 2 weeks additional paid paternity leave)

• Sport Card for employees subsidized via Social Benefits Fund and Sport Cards for certain family members available at preferential rates

• Additional benefits from Company’s Social Benefit Fund, in particular: Holidays Allowance, support for sport and cultural activities, team building events.

• Additional day off for volunteering

• Cafeteria/ flex benefit – a company benefits system which enables employees to select and purchase benefits offered by a provider and available for employees on the platform.

• Opportunity to receive an annual discretionary incentive award

• Special offers and discounts for employees

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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.

Sounds like Citi has everything you need? Then apply to discover the true extent of your capabilities.

Job Family Group:

Technology

Job Family:

Applications Development

Time Type:

Full time

Primary Location Full Time Salary Range:

zł268,390.00 - zł457,010.00

Most Relevant Skills

Please see the requirements listed above.

Other Relevant Skills

For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.

Automated Processing and AI

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