Senior Front-End Developer - Equity Derivatives Technology - VP | London, UK

Citi; London; Hybrid; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A global financial institution in London seeks a Senior Front-End Developer to lead the development of a pre-trade platform for the Equity Derivatives team. The ideal candidate will have experience in front-end technologies, particularly React, and a solid understanding of financial instruments. This role offers a hybrid working model and competitive benefits including annual leave and a performance-related bonus.

Benefits

27 days annual leave

Annual performance-related bonus

Private Medical Care

Life Insurance

Pension Plan

Paid Parental Leave

Employee discounts

Learning and development resources

Qualifications

• Experience as a technical lead senior developer with front-end technology.
• Extensive experience of system analysis and development of production-quality software applications.
• Clear and concise written and verbal communication.

Responsibilities

• Deliver excellent code, adhering to team standards.
• Identify necessary system enhancements for new products.
• Partner with teams to meet business goals efficiently.

Skills

Front-end technology (JS, ideally React)

System analysis

APIs and microservices

Financial instruments knowledge

CI/CD pipelines

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

React JS

Kafka

ELK

Mongo

Tableau

Job description

Senior Front-End Developer - Equity Derivatives Technology - VP

Senior Front-End Developer - Equity Derivatives Technology - VP

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 ourGlobal Benefitspage 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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