Software Engineering Lead - Senior Vice President

As a Backend Developer at Citi, you will have the opportunity to build the foundational backend systems for "Citi Assist", a Generative AI assistant that aims to reach every Citi employee globally. You will play a crucial role in shaping a high-visibility platform and defining the standards for how a global bank can safely and effectively adopt this technology at scale. **Key Responsibilities:** - Lead the design and development of robust, scalable Python systems as the technical anchor for backend services. - Take ownership of core platform capabilities, focusing on building for reliability, performance, and operational excellence. - Champion a culture of security by design, ensuring the development of safe, sound, and compliant systems. - Act as a technical mentor, elevating the team's capabilities through guidance, code reviews, and unblocking to increase collective pace. - Lead by example in engineering craftsmanship, promoting clean code, disciplined branching, and rigorous CI/CD practices. - Shape the technical direction by partnering with the product owner and scrum master to define, estimate, and plan work, contributing to the architecture and technical roadmap. - Foster a culture of clear, direct, and proactive communication within the distributed team. **Qualifications Required:** - Minimum 12+ years of engineering experience. - Pragmatic builder with a focus on delivering value and leading a team to make trade-offs between speed and quality. - Solutions-first mindset with deep hands-on experience in building, deploying, and maintaining production-grade Python services. - Experience leading technical projects and mentoring other engineers. - Security-conscious mindset with a firm grasp of software design patterns and writing clean, testable, maintainable code. - Comfort with deploying and managing applications in containerized environments, practical experience with CI/CD pipelines, and working knowledge of relational databases like Postgres. Citi's Common Platform Engineering - Gen AI team, within the Chief Technology Office (CTO), is a focused agile team committed to engineering craftsmanship and building the future while navigating legacy challenges. Joining this team means contributing to the development of "Citi Assist," a GenAI digital assistant, and enabling the organization to adopt GenAI safely and effectively. This role offers the opportunity to work on foundational technology with a direct impact on thousands of people, supported by executive backing and a collaborative team environment where learning and success are shared experiences.,