# Software Engineer, Design Systems & AI Tooling

Position Overview We are seeking energetic AI Design Engineers with 1-3 years of experience to help build, scale, and integrate the next generation of AI-powered developer tools, design systems, and data infrastructure. In this role, you will be part of an agile engineering team using modern programming stacks and AI-assisted development tools to build high-performance backend services, interactive user workflows, and automated quality verification pipelines. Our team is building an advanced design agent and Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides an AI-powered intelligence layer for enterprise development workflows. This platform grounds automated design decisions in standardized UI/UX guidelines and design system practices, ensuring AI-generated interfaces strictly adhere to established components, accessibility standards, content rules, and brand guidelines with consistent quality across web and mobile platforms. Core Responsibilities (All Tracks) Regardless of your primary track, as an AI Design Engineer your responsibilities will include: Feature Implementation: Write clean, modular, and well-tested code in modern programming languages (e.g. TypeScript, Python). AI

- **Id**: 4073193
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/citi-software-engineer-design-systems-ai-tooling>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: junior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Mississauga, Canada
- **Countries**: CA
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 1
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-10T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-10
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T14:24:43Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 8039
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Cards & Card Issuing, Wealth Management & Financial Advisors, Payment Processing & Gateways, Investment Banking & M&A Advisory

## Company

- **Id**: 7841
- **Name**: Citi
- **Domain**: citi.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/citi>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 97
- **Open postings**: 578
- **Ghost share**: 0.01
- **Stale share**: 0.265
- **Repost share**: 0.066
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 9
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 94300
- **Max**: 141500
- **Currency**: CAD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 99694

## Technologies

- **Agile** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Copilot** — Optional: no
- **Devin** — Optional: no
- **Figma** — Optional: no
- **Git** — Optional: no
- **JavaScript** — Optional: no
- **Kotlin** — Optional: no
- **Model Context Protocol** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **React.js** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **Swift** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no
- **Playwright** — Optional: yes
- **Pytest** — Optional: yes
- **Storybook** — Optional: yes
- **SwiftUI** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 1
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **Canada** — Iso: CA; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-11T14:24:43Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 9
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early, comp:junior,brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T15:53:13Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 99694
- **Is top pay**: no

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