Senior UI Lead Engineer, Vice President
Citi
We're hiring a Senior UI Lead Engineer to help build Citi's next generation, cross-asset risk system. We are utilising cutting edge technology to meet complex trading and regulatory requirements.
The development position involves:
- Development of high-quality, modern UIs for developers, support, quants and finance staff
- Participation in a fast-paced Agile development process
- Development of high-quality software, emphasizing simplicity, maintainability and reuse
- Participation in code and design reviews
- Working proactively on diverse and innovative solutions
- Requirements analysis and capture, working closely with the business and business aligned teams to define solutions
- Good communication with support, other development teams, and infrastructure teams
- Thorough automated testing using unit and integration tests
- Driving the architectural standards, development best practices, and promoting adherence to these standards
- Driving the architectural and technical evolution of frameworks and APIs
Key Relationships:
- Portfolio owners and project leads
- Risk/Pricing development teams and colleagues in London, Poland, Canada, New York, Shanghai
- Control and support staff
Qualifications and Skills:
The ideal candidate will be a seasoned developer with extensive commercial experience of React; familiarity with Typescript; and solid knowledge of modern HTML, JavaScript and CSS. The candidate must be a self-starter who can take wireframes and implement intuitive user interfaces. The candidate must be able to lead the team technically to drive the architecture standards and best practices
Required Skills:
- Strong communication skills
- Provencommercial experience with React
- Strong knowledge of modern HTML, JavaScript (ES6+)& CSS
- Strong understanding of Node.js & npm
- Experience with Typescript
- Hands-on expertise in development tools such as Webpack and Vite for efficient build and bundling workflows.
- Skilled in implementing robust testing strategies using frameworks like Playwright, React Testing Library, and Vitest to ensure high-quality, maintainable code.
Desirable skills:
- Experience in Investment Banking or finance
- Experience with GraphQL
- Strong understanding of modern JavaScript tooling
- Experience publishing npm libraries
- Experience with micro-frontends
- Experience building developer tooling
- Good technical writing skills for documentation
- Good understanding of data structures and solid computer science fundamentals
- Knowledge of messaging systems and event-driven architectures
Exceptional candidates who do not meet these criteria may be considered for the role provided they have the necessary skills and experience.
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Job Family Group:
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