Software Engineer (Front End or Full Stack) - Equities Tech

Citigroup Inc.; London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global financial services company in London is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead green field projects and collaborate with business users. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in both frontend and backend development, particularly with React, Typescript, and Kotlin. This role offers competitive compensation and a hybrid working model, including 27 days of annual leave and various additional benefits.

Benefits

27 days annual leave

Performance related bonus

Private Medical Care

Life Insurance

Pension Plan

Paid Parental Leave

Discounts for employees

Access to learning resources

Qualifications

• Experience in frontend development using React and Typescript, with knowledge of hooks and ES6.
• Experience in backend development with Kotlin and microservice architecture.
• Familiarity with Agile practices and continuous integration.

Responsibilities

• Develop software iteratively from idea to production.
• Collaborate and lead team efforts with strong relationships with business users.
• Produce clean, efficient code based on specifications.

Skills

React

Typescript

Kotlin

Kubernetes

DevOps best practices

TDD

BDD

Education

University degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Kafka

GraphQL

Job description

Senior Software Engineer (Front End or Full Stack) - Equities Tech – VP London

Department Overview:

Citi are undertaking a multi-year initiative to upgrade their structured products front-to-back infrastructure. The IT team is a key partner to the business and is a major contributor to its success and future growth.

To support the structured products business growth plan, additional funding is being invested in technology and a number of new and exciting green field projects have been initiated. In line with this initiative, the Global Equities Technology Department are currently looking to hire an experienced Developer in London (WeWork Office) to become a key member of the Global Structured Products platform team.

Role Overview: We are looking for a dev lead to work on a number of green field services within the structured products world. They will be instrumental in setting and ensuring best code practices and designing well crafted software. The team work in an agile manner, self-organise their work with BAs, QA, speaking directly with business users across the globe and have good autonomy over technology decisions. They own the continuous delivery pipeline through to production and strive to release frequently into production.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop software iteratively, from an idea through to production.
• Collaborate and Lead with the rest of the team, pairing where appropriate.
• Build strong relationships with business users through understanding the challenges that they face, then design and build systems that will allow them to overcome them.
• Produce clean efficient code based on the specifications.
• Strive to improve and share best engineering practice across the wider technology team.

Technology Skills Desired:

• For the right applicant this position can be a Full Stack or Frontend role.
• Frontend: React and Typescript- experience with hooks and ES6 would be preferred . Some applications also use graphql.
• Backend: The new platform is being built out using Kotlin in a micro service based architecture and is deployed within Kubernetes/Openshift containers. Kafka is used as the core messaging layer. graphql server
• Best practices around DevOps techniques are expected to be utilised with real-time monitoring and metrics part of the key deliverables/best practice.
• The team also push for fully automated testing, continuous integration and trunk based development and would want the developer to have experience of working in such an environment
• Experience with TDD, BDD and agile practices would be ideal - Note: we are agile with our agile!

Education:

• University degree or equivalent experience 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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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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