Equities Risk Senior UI Developer (React) – VP (Hybrid)

Equities Risk Senior UI Developer (React) – VP (Hybrid)

Who We Are

The CITI Equities Risk Technology Team globally supports the Equities Front Office Risk Management systems, providing the business with capabilities to manage market data and Risk and PnL. We are undertaking a multi-year initiative to upgrade their Equities Risk 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. The team is undertaking a multi-year revamp of the platform, to support business expansion plans, to be the best in class across the street. To support this transformation, additional funding is being invested in front-end 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 Front End Developer in London (Canary Wharf Office) to become a key member of the Equities Risk and Market Data platform team.

Role Overview:
We are looking for a Senior/Lead Developer (VP Level) to work and lead several user interface transformation within the Equities Risk and Market data world. The team works in an agile manner, self-organise their work with BAs, 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 scalable and extensible UI software using Typescript/React iteratively, from an idea through to production.

Collaborate with the rest of the team, frequently pairing.

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:

Frontend: React and Typescript- experience with hooks and ES6 would be preferred. Some applications also use GraphQL.

Platform: The UI layer is deployed within Kubernetes/OpenShift container

Best practices around QA techniques are expected to be utilised with unit testing, e2e testing.

The team also push for fully automated testing, continuous integration and git-based development and would want the developer to have experience of working in such an environment.

Experience with TDD, BDD and agile practices

Education:

University degree or equivalent experience preferred.

If you think you meet 50%+ of the criteria and the key criteria of a React UI Developer and are interested in the role then please do apply. Financial background not necessary. We are looking for self-driven technologists with a passion for knowledge and the ability to operate with client experience focus.

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

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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