Hybrid Full-Stack Java Engineer – Systematic Credit Trading

Citigroup Inc.; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

27 days annual leave

Discretionary bonus

Private medical care & Life Insurance

Employee assistance program

Pension plan

Paid parental leave

Employee discounts

Learning resources

Job summary

Citi London is seeking a highly motivated full-stack engineer to join the Systematic & Credit Portfolio Trading team. The role focuses on building trading tools with Java and React, collaborating closely with traders, quants and product development.

You will iterate rapidly on revenue-driving and risk-reducing tooling, learn the business context, and balance strategic builds with immediate needs. Hybrid work up to 2 days home weekly.

Qualifications

• Proven experience building applications and tools in Java or similar language.
• Experience with containerized deployment Kubernetes/OpenShift, Helm and Docker.
• Strong engineering fundamentals - managing complexity and designing for stability and maintainability.
• Experience with CI/CD tooling such as Jenkins, Harness, etc.
• Experience analyzing complex data sets and drawing evidence-based conclusions.
• Experience using agentic coding agents to accelerate development while maintaining high quality code and comprehensibility of the resulting system.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Prior experience in Credit or capital markets is a plus.
• Prior experience in Credit other secondary trading businesses is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Define trade tooling business requirements directly with traders
• Work collaborative with traders, quants and product dev team to develop trading tools (such as portfolio optimization, P&L analysis, trading recommendations etc.)
• Maintain an ecosystem for rapid application tooling that can support contributions directly from traders in a sustainable manner
• Leverage Java and React to create high quality software that can be delivered and adapted at the pace the business operates
• Collaborate with production support to ensure stability and maintainability of critical trading functions

Skills

Java

React

Agentic coding

Communication skills

Financial/credit knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Docker

Helm

Jenkins

Harness

Job description

Citi London is seeking a highly motivated full-stack engineer to join the Systematic & Credit Portfolio Trading team. The role focuses on building trading tools with Java and React, collaborating closely with traders, quants and product development.

You will iterate rapidly on revenue-driving and risk-reducing tooling, learn the business context, and balance strategic builds with immediate needs. Hybrid work up to 2 days home weekly.