GenAI Full-Stack Engineering Lead

eFinancialCareers; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

27 days annual leave (plus bank & ott)

Discretional annual performance bonus

Private Medical Care & Life Insurance

Employee Assistance Program

Pension Plan

Paid Parental Leave

Employee discounts

Learning and development resources

Job summary

Citi is seeking a hands-on engineering lead to drive enterprise-scale applications and accelerate Generative AI initiatives across the tech organisation. You will mentor engineers, shape architecture, and partner with stakeholders to align platforms with business priorities.

This role offers a hybrid work model with up to 2 days at home per week, a competitive base salary, and a broad benefits programme. You will influence engineering culture and help shape the future of finance with Citi Tech.

Qualifications

• Proven leadership of software engineering organisations in a hands-on role.
• Experience with Python, Go, TypeScript, JavaScript or React.
• Experience delivering AI-enabled or Generative AI solutions within enterprise environments.
• Experience building enterprise-scale cloud-native applications using Kubernetes, containers, microservices and event-driven architectures.
• Strong knowledge of SQL and NoSQL technologies, API design and integration patterns.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence technology decisions.

Responsibilities

• Drive design and delivery of enterprise-scale applications for critical business functions.
• Remain hands-on with architecture, design, code reviews and engineering decisions.
• Set technical direction across frontend, backend, APIs, cloud services and platform components.
• Partner with senior technology and business stakeholders to align platform strategy with priorities.
• Deliver high-profile, business-critical programmes with executive visibility.
• Champion engineering excellence, DevSecOps, platform engineering and continuous improvement.
• Mentor engineering managers and senior engineers to build a culture of technical excellence.
• Drive adoption of developer platforms and enterprise standards across teams.

Skills

Leadership

Python

Go

TypeScript

JavaScript

React

Generative AI

Kubernetes

Docker

APIs

DevSecOps

Mentoring

Cloud

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

Citi is seeking a hands-on engineering lead to drive enterprise-scale applications and accelerate Generative AI initiatives across the tech organisation. You will mentor engineers, shape architecture, and partner with stakeholders to align platforms with business priorities.

This role offers a hybrid work model with up to 2 days at home per week, a competitive base salary, and a broad benefits programme. You will influence engineering culture and help shape the future of finance with Citi Tech.