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This role is focused on the design, development, and delivery of Citi's next-generation low-latency Risk Engine for cash equities and its integration into the broader execution platform - encompassing the Centralised Position Service, Client Connectivity, Market Access layers, and high-throughput market data processing.\nThe engineer will own critical, latency-sensitive risk-checking components that sit directly in the cash equities trading hot path, ensuring pre-trade and real-time risk controls are enforced with microsecond-level performance while maintaining correctness and resiliency at scale. 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handlers.\nApply deep expertise in JVM performance tuning, memory management, garbage collection avoidance, and/or native (C++/Rust) performance engineering to eliminate latency outliers (\"jitter\") in the risk path.\nPerform system-level performance tuning to minimize end-to-end latency and jitter across the risk and execution path.\nQualifications\n10+ years of overall software engineering experience, with substantial hands-on experience building risk management, position-keeping, or other latency-critical systems for cash equities electronic trading or algorithmic trading platforms at a global investment bank or equivalent financial institution.\nStrong, hands-on technical expertise in Low Latency Java and/or C++ (Rust a plus), including multi-threading, concurrency, lock-free data structures, Java NIO, and JVM/GC performance tuning.\nHands-on experience with low-latency messaging and IPC frameworks such as Aeron, Solace, or equivalent shared-memory/IPC technologies for building 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