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At Citi, our Tech team doesn’t just support finance - we are helping to redefine it. Every day, $5 trillion crosses through our network. We do business in 180+ countries operating at a scale few can match. From deploying advanced AI to helping shape global markets, we build systems that matter. Look to join a team where your work helps influence economies, your ideas can drive innovation and outcomes, and your growth is backed by mentorship, continuous learning and flexibility with potential hybrid work opportunities. Help solve real-world challenges that touch millions and get the opportunity to build the future of finance with Citi Tech.\nWhat We do / The Team\nEquities Technology at Citi is undertaking a bold, multi-year transformation to build a best-in-class global platform across execution, prime, clearing and cross-product margining. We are re-engineering our technology estate to achieve world-leading performance and resiliency, enabling new capabilities in advanced execution, global market connectivity, and modernised post-trade, clearing and margin processes. Our ambition is to deliver a seamlessly integrated, highly automated platform that drives outstanding client outcomes and accelerates growth across our global franchise. As part of the team, you’ll collaborate closely with high-calibre engineers and deeply engaged business and product partners - working together to define and deliver the next generation of Equities technology at Citi.\nRole Overview/What will you do:\nWe are seeking a senior developer to join the London based team part of the Equity Derivatives technology group. This role will position you as a technical and delivery lead to help to design and deliver the build out of software suite used by the Equity Derivatives and Delta 1 trading desks for marking and pricing globally. This is also an excellent opportunity for you to define yourself as a key contributor and technical lead within the wider Equity technology division.\nOn a daily basis you will be working with tech\nResponsibilities:\nDeliver consistently excellent code, adhering to our team standards and industry best practices.\nIdentify and define necessary system enhancements to deploy new products and process improvements.\nPartner with multiple related teams to ensure business critical goals are met efficiently and within agreed timescales.\nResolve a variety of high impact problems/projects through in-depth evaluation of complex business processes.\nAchieve and maintain a high level of understanding and current system processes and industry standards.\nDevelop comprehensive knowledge of relevant areas of business and understand their goals and long-term strategy.\nServe as advisor or coach to mid-level developers and analysts, operating within an agile / frequent delivery mindset.\nAppropriately 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 behaviour, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.\nKey Skills and Experience required - This section is about the candidate.\nExperience as a technical lead senior developer with front-end technology (JS, ideally React).\nExtensive experience of system analysis and development of production-quality software applications.\nConsistently clear and concise written and verbal communication.\nExperience working with APIs and microservices systems.\nProven experience in ensuring observability, robust testing quality practice and maintaining clean CI/CD pipelines.\nAny Beneficial / Nice to have skills and experience:\nExperience working in React JS, with applications providing clear view of market data and analytics, including real time.\nUnderstanding of derivatives instruments/markets and related market data inputs for pricing and marking.\nExposure to microservices systems and container/cloud deployment and hosting designs.\nExperience leveraging AI agents assistant tools rationally and safely for coding.\nAdditional technology experience: Kafka, ELK, Splunk, DBaaS…\nThis job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.\nWhat we’ll provide you\nBy joining Citi, 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:\n27 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) \nA discretional annual performance related bonus \nPrivate Medical Care & Life Insurance \nEmployee Assistance Program \nPension Plan \nPaid Parental Leave \nSpecial discounts for employees, family, and friends \nAccess to an array of learning and development resources \nVisit our About Us | Culture, Values & Benefits page to learn more.\nAlongside 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.\n#LI-AP2\n------------------------------------------------------\nJob Family Group:\nTechnology------------------------------------------------------\nJob Family:\nApplications Development------------------------------------------------------\nTime Type:\nFull time------------------------------------------------------\nMost Relevant Skills\nPlease see the requirements listed above.------------------------------------------------------\nOther Relevant Skills\nFor complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.------------------------------------------------------\nCiti is an equal opportunity employer, and qualified candidates will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristic protected by law.\nIf you are a person with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation to use our search tools and/or apply for a career opportunity review Accessibility at Citi.\nView Citi’s EEO Policy Statement and the Know Your Rights poster.","description_format":"text","description_chars":6529,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Annual leave","Continuous learning","Equity","Hybrid work","Life insurance","Parental leave"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United Kingdom","iso":"GB","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Wealth Management","Lending","Payments","Capital Markets"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-24T12:27:28Z"}],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":11,"reasons":["conf:1","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-09-25T03:28:31Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/citi-senior-front-end-developer-react-equity-derivatives-technology-vp","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/citi-senior-front-end-developer-react-equity-derivatives-technology-vp.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-25T03:28:31Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":3830,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":1170,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-09-26T00:00:00Z"}}}