Senior UI Lead Engineer, VP

Citi

Citi

Design
London, UK
Posted on Aug 11, 2025

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:

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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