Full Stack Lead Engineer, Vice President

Citi; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 159,000 - 238,000; Full time

Job summary

Citi is seeking a Full Stack Lead Engineer (Vice President) in London to drive delivery across front-end and back-end platforms within Finance Technology. You will mentor teams, design scalable architectures, and partner with enterprise architects to modernize core financial systems.

The role requires strong full-stack expertise, API development, and cloud-native delivery using microservices. Hybrid work model with collaboration across global teams and regulatory-compliant engineering practices.

Qualifications

• Experience in full stack development across front-end and back-end layers.
• Proven ability to deliver robust, scalable, maintainable applications.
• Strong understanding of API development and microservices architecture.

Responsibilities

• Write code on one or more development platforms to deliver features for Finance Technology platforms.
• Collaborate with architects and senior engineers to shape solutions.
• Contribute to design discussions and ensure secure, reliable implementations.
• Engage in testing, debugging, and performance optimization.

Skills

Full stack development

React

TypeScript

Node.js

Java/JVM

Microservices

SQL

Cloud (AWS/GCP)

OpenShift

Docker

Education

Bachelor's degree/University degree or equivalent

Tools

React tooling

OpenShift

Docker

Kubernetes

Jenkins

NPM

Job description

Full Stack Lead Engineer, Vice President

Location(s):

London, England, United Kingdom

Job Type:

Hybrid

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Job Overview

Overview:

Finance Technology is a critical driver of Citi’s growth and transformation, delivering the platforms, engineering capabilities, and technology solutions that power the bank’s strategic objectives. We partner across the enterprise to modernize core financial systems, accelerate innovation, and create scalable solutions that support both today’s priorities and tomorrow’s opportunities.

Our teams are leading a large-scale technology transformation, reimagining legacy ecosystems through cloud-ready architectures, data-driven platforms, automation, and next-generation engineering practices. By leveraging best-in-class technologies, we simplify complex business processes, enhance operational efficiency, strengthen controls, and enable compliance with evolving regulatory requirements.

At Finance Technology, we are redefining how technology empowers Finance, and other global functions. Our products and platforms are built on Citi’s strategic architecture principles, enabling seamless end-to-end integration, greater transparency, and faster decision-making across the enterprise. Together, we are pushing the boundaries of technology to build resilient, intelligent, and future-ready solutions that help Citi deliver for its clients and stakeholders worldwide.

What we offer:

Be part of Strategic technology team to develop, enhance, support and maintain solutions for Finance Technology leveraging Emerging Technologies and AI-Led tools.
Participate in technical discussions/brainstorming sessions and define ideas and strategies for existing and future platforms.
Gain exposure to Wholesale, Retail business across data, risk and finance.
Work across diverse set of Finance platforms and have an opportunity to be part of re architecture and re-platforming initiatives on business process transformation.

Responsibilities:

• Write code on one or more development platforms to deliver part or all of a feature, collaborating with Enterprise Architect and Senior engineers.
• Respond to problems, questions, or situations by applying established criteria to directly influence development outcomes. In doing so, use the right technology to solve technical challenges required to deliver all or part of small scale features and functions and / or supporting aspects of a larger program efforts.
• Have responsibility for applications solution design and programming activities that may include inputs to feasibility studies, time and cost estimates and implementation of new or revised applications systems and programs.
• Accountable for development, design, construction, testing and implementation and write secure, stable, testable and maintainable code.
• Operate with autonomy, while some oversight and direction may be required.
• Engage in digital applications development, risk technology, Analytic Model Development and Application support activities to meet specific business needs of user areas and to test systems to ensure integrity of deliverables.
• Expected to provide sound understanding of application development concepts and principles and a basic knowledge of concepts and principles in other technology areas.
• On occasion, may need to consult with users, clients and other technology groups on issues and recommend programming solutions for customer exposed systems.
• Understand the functionality of the systems involved with projects. This includes the applications/services, runtime operations, and maintenance.
• Understand the business context and the associated customer use cases.
• Understand your technologies for your features and are able to evaluate system designs and architecture while participating in solution discussions, development and the creation of application / systems documentation.
• Participate in design sessions to gain an understanding of the context for design decisions and provide inputs for making these design decisions.
• Expected to seek guidance from peers and / or manager for items not outlined in our operating procedures.
• Provide inputs for building project development schedules.
• Provide inputs for feature prioritization, highlight technical dependencies between deliverables and help the scrum team reach consensus with the product owner.
• Verbal and written communication is clear and concise.
• Have good working relationships with team members, manager, and peers.
• Provide inputs to help improve development related processes that accelerate delivery, drive innovation, lower costs, and improve quality.
• Successfully complete assessment tests offered in Pluralsight, Udemy, etc. or complete certifications to demonstrate technical expertise on your development platform(s).
• 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 behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.

Qualifications:

• Strong experience in Application Development or systems analysis role.
• Experience in programming of software applications and implementing successful projects.
• Proven engineering experience building robust, scalable, and maintainable applications in the Financial Services industry.
• Build, deploy, and test application components in a development environment during the implementation phase working with all layers of the application stack.
• Work proactively & independently to address project requirements, and articulate issues/challenges with enough lead time to address project delivery risks.
• Ensure code developed meets the requirements.
  Ability to adjust priorities quickly as circumstances dictate.
• Experience working in Financial Services or a large complex and/or global environment.
  Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication.
  Demonstrated analytic/diagnostic skills.
• Ability to work in a matrix environment and partner with virtual teams.
• Ability to work independently, prioritize, and take ownership of various parts of a project or initiative.
• Ability to work under pressure and manage to tight deadlines or unexpected changes in expectations or requirements.
• Proven track record of operational process changes and improvement.
• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication.

Technical Skills:

Must have:

• Strong experience in Full stack development using React, Typescript, Node.js, stylesheets, Java/JVM Based Language Like Java, Kotlin, Microservices.
  Should have strong hand-on experience designing and building UI framework using react in align with latest UI framework practices and guidelines.
• Experience of API Development and its Eco-systems.
• Hands-on working experience React, Java script, Java / Spring / Spring Cloud / Spring Data JPA / Spring Boot Microservices.
• Should have troubleshooting skills using debuggers, logs, etc.
  Strong understanding of test-driven development using Jest, Cypress, Java script, Junit, Mockito.
• Experience with Public clouds like AWS, GCP will be added advantage.
• Experience with OpenShift, Docker and Kubernetes.
• Understanding of build and deployment tools like, Jenkin. Teckton, UDeploy, Harness, NPM, Maven, Gradle.
• Implement Unit Testing and TDD to ensure software quality and maintainability.
  Proficiency in SQL Databases, MongoDB, Oracle preferred.

Nice to have:

• Experience on Observability and monitoring tech stack as well.
• Understanding of Gen AI based Productivity tool like Microsoft Co-Pilot, Devin etc.
  Understanding Middleware like Tibco RV, EMS, Solace, Kafka etc.
• Understanding of Python, Gen AI will be plus.

Educational Qualification:

• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience.

Job Family Group:

Job Family:

Time Type:

Full time

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