Generative AI Software engineer

Citigroup Inc.
London
1 year ago
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Are you looking for a career move that will allow you to take a strategic project from zero to one? Then bring your extensive coding experience and passion for change and be part of the team building a green-field development at scale.

By joining Citi’s Common Platform Engineering team, you will help create and run the Generative AI platform for Citi. Our remit encompasses large scale engineering challenges on-premise and on cloud, along with cutting edge use of LLMs and supporting toolchains to address the use-cases of our users across the bank.

We are a startup within Citi, where everyone is actively coding. We need innovative and creative self-starters who have previous experience in developing large-scale platforms, data and ML, finance, platform engineering, and SRE.

Responsibilities:

  • Design and build high-quality, highly reliable software
  • Partner closely with other development teams, quants, and subject-matter experts in our businesses
  • Ensure our software platforms are compliant with Citi's security and SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) processes
  • Run the platform at scale while continuing to innovate and evolve

Skills & Qualifications:

  • Strong knowledge and deep experience of Python and toolchains
  • Experienced in and strong knowledge of using AI/ML and more particularly LLMs eager to apply this rapidly changing technology
  • Experience with CI/CD and MLOps tools/frameworks (e.g. MLflow and W&B)
  • Experienced in building and running a large platform at scale
  • Strong distributed systems skills and knowledge
  • Strong system architecture skills
  • Knowledge of other modern, functional languages e.g. Scala, Clojure, Rust, Elixir
  • Solid understanding of REST-ful design
  • Experience with Kubernetes
  • Development experience of at least one public cloud provider

If you are actively coding, have a passion for Generative AI, and want to be part of developing a brand-new team – then apply today.

What we’ll provide you:

This is a unique role that will put you in the position to be part of a new venture and actively drive change. Every day there will be new challenges that will help you develop new skills that can drive your career.

By joining Citi London, 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 Medical Care & Life Insurance
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Pension Plan
  • Paid Parental Leave
  • Special discounts for employees, family, and friends

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.

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