Senior Java Software Engineer – FX Options Risk (VP)

This position is responsible for designing, developing, and optimizing our mission-critical, high-throughput FX real-time risk system. As a Senior   Software Engineer , you will leverage your deep technical expertise to drive the architectural evolution of low-latency processing systems, solve complex engineering challenges, and provide technical guidance to the engineering team. In this front-office facing role, you will collaborate closely with the FX Options Trading desk, translating business needs into robust, scalable, real-time software solutions.

Technical Execution & Architecture   Design, implement, and optimize   critical FX real-time risk infrastructure, ensuring high performance, minimal latency, and high availability.   Drive key technical deliverables   and champion code quality, modern development practices, and robust system design patterns within the team.   Provide expert architectural input   and contribute to the technical strategy as we modernize and onboard to the bank's strategic risk platform.   Collaborate with engineering partners   to establish design standards, conduct deep code reviews, and provide technical mentorship to mid-level and junior engineers.   Stakeholder Collaboration & Domain Expertise   Serve as a key technical Subject Matter Expert (SME)   for the FX Options Trading desk, trading leadership, and risk managers, translating quantitative and trading requirements into concrete software designs.   Act as a dependable technical partner   to front-office stakeholders, offering advanced analysis and fast, decisive troubleshooting for complex real-time system behaviors or critical production incidents.   Appropriately assess risk   when technical and architectural decisions are made, ensuring all solutions adhere to corporate security, scalability, and stability standards to safeguard Citigroup, its clients, and assets.   Hands-on Development   Contribute hands-on   as a primary engineer utilizing our modern tech stack: Core Java (multi-threading, concurrency, memory optimization),   CouchbaseDB , Kafka, and Apache Storm.   Solve complex real-time risk calculation requirements , handling heavy stream processing and highly concurrent data flows.

5–8+ years of professional application development experience , with a strong focus on enterprise Java within highly parallel, low-latency, or distributed environments.   Strong financial knowledge   of FX trading, options pricing, or real-time risk systems is highly preferred / obligatory.   Proven track record as a high-performing Individual Contributor (IC)   delivering complex, high-throughput distributed systems in production environments.   Deep hands-on expertise in Core Java , including multi-threading, memory management, garbage collection tuning, and concurrency utilities.   Solid experience with real-time stream processing   and distributed data architectures (e.g., Kafka, Apache Storm,   CouchbaseDB /NoSQL, Spring).   Familiarity with modern infrastructure paradigms , such as containerization (OpenShift/Kubernetes) and cloud platforms (GCP/AWS) is highly advantageous.   Understanding of AI, machine learning, or advanced quantitative analytics   applications in financial systems is a strong plus.   Outstanding communication and collaboration skills , with the ability to interact confidently and explain complex technical concepts to non-technical business partners, including trading desk heads.

Bachelor's degree/University degree or equivalent experience What we’ll provide you By joining Citi, you will not only be part of a business casual workplace with a hybrid working model (up to 2 days working at home per week), but also receive a competitive base salary (which is annually reviewed), and enjoy a whole host of additional benefits such as: 27 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) A discretional annual performance related bonus Private