Lead Software Engineer - Python/Golang - Vice President
- Job Req Id:
- 26932293
- Location(s):
- Pune, Maharashtra, India
- Job Type:
- On-Site/Resident
- Posted:
- Feb. 26, 2026
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Job Overview
The Department
Developer Engineering is a function of the CTO organization. Our mission is to make it easy and enjoyable for software engineering teams to go from a business idea to delivering an innovative product solution. The main goals are to improve and upgrade our tools, streamline our processes, automate, and strengthen our controls, and help development teams adopt modern working methods.
The Team
Within the Developer Engineering department, the Developer Services group is a dedicated expert team focused on driving the everything-as-code agenda and delivering tangible reductions in process friction, errors, and manual effort to comply with and administer our policies, standards and the controls that derive from them. The group has the mandate and a unique opportunity as part of a greenfield program to impact critical technical consensus across the company and change how the organization is applying controls and writing policies globally. The Developer Services is a cross-functional team of engineers, data scientists, business analysts, and product managers that will directly engineer new codified controls and the underlying capabilities required to support them and drive other groups to provide the automated controls.
The Opportunity
Software Engineers are critical to building the products and services we need to deliver on our Developer Services vision. Joining us a Senior Software Engineer you will have the opportunity to build a high-profile product, work closely with a talented group of peers and have the room to build and improve your own skillset. We believe that our Engineers should be a part of all steps of our product from idea to execution and you will be a key part along every step of that journey. You will also work delivering Generative AI technologies, embedding their capabilities through prompt engineering in our systems.
Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and test software applications
- Work closely with other team members to ensure that the software is developed and delivered on time and within budget
- Write high-quality code that is well-documented and easy to maintain
- Stay up to date on the latest software development trends and technologies
- Troubleshoot and debug software problems Ensure our software platforms are compliant with Citi's security and SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) processes
- Work with a wide variety of business and tech teams and help them drive towards an everything-as-code and a codified controls mind-set
- Support and drive cultural change, instigating critical thinking about controls and processes and encouraging a culture of continuous improvement
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Connected to latest technologies, like Generative AI, and keen to put them in practice in our software development process
- Pragmatic, and a creative approach to managing risk
- A growth mindset and willingness to learn and adapt in a fast-paced environment
Experience:
- Strong Experience delivering Python and Golang code to production
- Experience working in an agile software development environment
- Proven experience with distributed systems, event-driven architectures, container-based micro-services, distributed logs NoSQL databases (MongoDB)
- Generative AI hands on experience with Developer Assistants
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience
- Master’s degree preferred
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