FX Client Platforms – Senior UI Software Engineer (Vice President)

Overview

In this role you will lead the creation of high-quality trading UIs for FX traders, aligning with Citi’s emphasis on scalable, cross-application interoperability. You’ll drive frontend architecture decisions, performance, and AI-assisted development within a global team, delivering robust, real-time interfaces. You will collaborate with UX, product, and sales to translate requirements into solid technical solutions, and mentor engineers to raise delivery standards. This is a chance to shape modern trading platforms at scale.

Pay / Benefits

• 27 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
• discretionary annual performance bonus
• Private Medical Care & Life Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Pension Plan
• Paid Parental Leave

Responsibilities

• Design and develop trading GUIs with strong user experience for traders
• Define interoperability standards across web apps using FDC3 and REST/WebSocket APIs
• Drive AI integration across the development lifecycle (AI-assisted coding, test generation, monitoring)
• Influence performance engineering of the UI stack (profiling, rendering optimisation, low-latency data delivery)
• Contribute to architecture decisions for large-scale front-end systems (monorepo governance, design system adoption)
• Promote best practices in TDD, code review, and AI-assisted tooling
• Collaborate with UI leads, UX, Product, and Sales to translate requirements into solutions
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to team growth and delivery standards

Key requirements

• TypeScript, React, HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript (ES6+) expert
• Experience profiling/optimising high throughput React apps (Web Workers, virtual rendering, memory management)
• Desktop containers experience: Chromium, Electron, or OpenFin; familiarity with FDC3
• Real-time messaging systems experience: Kafka, Solace, or Tibco
• CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins or equivalent) and Agile methodologies
• Strong communication skills and global team experience

• strong communication
• mentoring/leadership
• collaboration across cross-functional teams
• TypeScript
• React
• HTML5

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