Senior React Front-End Lead, Equities Tech

Citibank (Switzerland) AG; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

27 days annual leave

Discretional annual bonus

Private Medical Care & Life Insurance

Pension Plan

Parental Leave

Job summary

Citi is seeking a Senior Front-End Developer (React) to join the London Equity Derivatives Technology team. You will lead design and delivery of software used by trading desks for marking and pricing globally, collaborating with cross-functional partners in a fast-paced, high-stakes environment.

You will mentor mid-level developers, ensure robust CI/CD pipelines, and uphold observability and testing standards while aligning with regulatory and risk controls.

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.
• Proven experience in ensuring observability, robust testing quality practice and maintaining clean CI/CD pipelines.

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 Citi, 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.

Skills

React

JavaScript

APIs

CI/CD

Observability

Tools

Kafka

ELK

Splunk

DBaaS

Job description

Citi is seeking a Senior Front-End Developer (React) to join the London Equity Derivatives Technology team. You will lead design and delivery of software used by trading desks for marking and pricing globally, collaborating with cross-functional partners in a fast-paced, high-stakes environment.

You will mentor mid-level developers, ensure robust CI/CD pipelines, and uphold observability and testing standards while aligning with regulatory and risk controls.