Senior Front-End Developer – Equity Derivatives Technology – VP

Citigroup Inc.; London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global financial institution in London is seeking a Senior Front-End Developer to lead technical initiatives in their Equity Derivatives Technology team. This role involves collaborating with sales, trading, and quant colleagues to enhance a pre-trade request-for-quote and pricing platform. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in front-end technologies, particularly React, and a deep understanding of financial instruments. Competitive salary and numerous benefits are included.

Benefits

27 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Discretionary performance-related bonus

Private Medical Care & Life Insurance

Employee Assistance Program

Pension Plan

Paid Parental Leave

Special discounts for employees

Access to learning and development resources

Responsibilities

• Deliver excellent code following best practices.
• Define necessary system enhancements for new products.
• Partner with teams to meet business goals effectively.

Skills

Front-end technology (JS, ideally React)

System analysis and software development

Communication skills

Working with APIs

Understanding of financial instruments

CI/CD pipelines management

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Tools

React JS

Kafka

MongoDB

Tableau

Job description

Senior Front-End Developer – Equity Derivatives Technology – VP

We are seeking a senior developer to join the London based team part of the Equity Derivatives Pre-Trade technology group. This role will position you as a technical and delivery lead to help to design and deliver the build out of a pre-trade request-for-quote and pricing platform used by the Equity Derivatives and Delta 1 desks globally.This is also an excellent opportunity for you to define yourself as a key contributor and technical lead within the wider Equity technology division.

On a daily basis you will be working with tech as well as front office sales, trading, and quants colleagues across all Derivative & Delta 1 desks.

Responsibilities:

• Deliver consistently excellent code, adhering to our team standards and industry best practices.
• Identify and define necessary system enhancements to deploy new products and process improvements.
• Partner with multiple related teams to ensure business critical goals are met efficiently and within agreed timescales.
• Resolve a variety of high impact problems/projects through in-depth evaluation of complex business processes.
• Achieve and maintain a high level of understanding and current system processes and industry standards.
• Develop comprehensive knowledge of relevant areas of business and understand their goals and long-term strategy.
• Serve as advisor or coach to mid-level developers and analysts, operating within an agile / frequent delivery mindset.
• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behaviour, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.

Required Qualifications:

• Experience as a technical lead senior developer with front-end technology (JS, ideally React).
• Extensive experience of system analysis and development of production-quality software applications.
• Consistently clear and concise written and verbal communication.
• Experience working with APIs and microservices systems.
• Understanding of financial instruments, ideally Equity Derivatives and Delta 1 asset classes.
• Proven experience in ensuring observability, robust testing quality practice and maintaining clean CI/CD pipelines.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working in React JS, with applications providing order/trade/real time market data or similar data structures and feeds.
• Exposure to microservices systems and container/cloud deployment and hosting designs.
• Experience leveraging LLMs assistant tools rationally for coding.
• Additional technology experience: Kafka, ELK, Mongo, DBaaS, SaaS, Tableau.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience operating in a similar role

This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.

What we’ll provide you

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
• Access to an array of learning and development resources

Visit our Global Benefits page to learn more.

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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Job Family Group:

Technology

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Job Family:

Applications Development

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Time Type:

Full time

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Most Relevant Skills

Please see the requirements listed above.

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Other Relevant Skills

For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.

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