Software Engineer (developer Enablement)

Software Engineer (Developer Enablement)

Discover your future at Citi. Working at Citi is far more than just a job. A career with us means joining a team of more than 230,000 dedicated people from around the globe. At Citi, you'll have the opportunity to grow your career, give back to your community and make a real impact.

Job Overview

We're looking for multiple talented engineers Server Side, UI, or full stack, to join one of our high-impact teams inside Citi's CTO organisation. You'll sit within Developer Enablement, a group focused on innovation, developer platforms and internal tools used across the bank, where we experiment and ship fast, like a startup inside a global bank. Our mission is to save our engineers tens of minutes per day, equating to £10,000,000s of savings at Citi's scale.

There are many exciting opportunities for you, and flexibility to move between multiple projects if that's something you'd enjoy.

Release On Demand allows engineering teams to deploy code to production frequently, whilst making it easy to follow best practices in our highly regulated industry. The 3-year-old platform used by 1,000s of engineer's bank-wide, is projected to deliver $50 million in savings this year alone. The platform needs to continue its huge success by continuing to scale and provide more opportunities for developer productivity.

SDLC Automation is a greenfield project that builds on the success we've had in automating the SDLC and takes it further. This blue-sky project looks at ways we can greatly improve the SDLC process at Citi, taking ideas like grading engineering teams and rewarding those who follow best practices, perhaps moving them from manual approval process to an automatic one. The use of Artificial Intelligence is highly likely.

Dev hub is the Engineers homepage where engineers can see all of parts of the SDLC, such as code reviews, JIRAS and deployments, all tied together into single workflow. The next-generation greenfield Developer Experience (DevEx) platform aims to save days of engineering time per engineer per year at one of the largest engineering organisations in the world. Transforming the way engineers work at Citi.

AI Tooling – The use of AI is becoming ever more evident in the software platforms we build and the AI tooling team are a cross-functional team that work across the other platforms supplementing their capabilities with AI. A small but expanding team has provided numerous AI enhancements such as developer documentation chatbots, log file analysis, release summarisation etc.

Why you'll love working here:

• You'll work in a small, agile team, in an organisation led by technologists, building the best tools for fellow developers.
• You'll impact the daily experience of tens of thousands of engineers at one of the largest engineering organisations in the world.
• You get to work in the fun part of the bank, the Chief Technology Office, building cool things.

What you will bring (depending on role):

A selection of the tools and capabilities required across our platforms. We value multi-disciplined polyglot engineers but also understand and support the need for specialisms too across the wider department.

UI/UX

• Strong front-end engineering skills: Typescript (JS), React, CSS, and data visualisation tools like d3.js.
• Strong product/design skills: Proficient in Figma, interaction design, component reuse
• Evaluative user testing/interviewing
• Comfortable taking part in either formal or informal user research: you talk to users early and often, integrating insights into your work.
• Ability to innovate: Excited to push the boundaries in design and engineering with your unique skillset that allows you to bring strengths from both worlds.

Server

• Strong server-side engineering skills: Kotlin (Java 21), building and consuming RESTful APIs, asynchronous programming.
• Proficiency with relational and/or NoSQL databases: PostgreSQL, MongoDB.
• Experience with message queuing systems: Apache Kafka.
• SRE/DevOps – Experience with scalability & Observability
• Deep understanding of containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools like Tekton and deployment automation platforms like Harness.
• Comfortable collaborating with product, design, and UI engineers, product managers, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver robust backend solutions.

Tools you'll use (depending on role)

• UI/UX: React, TypeScript, Rest APIs, VS Code, Figma, Storybook and internal design systems
• Server: Kotlin, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Apache Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Tekton, Harness
• SRE: OpenShift, Tekton, Harness, …
• Mac or PC - It's up to you.
• Access to time-saving AI tools such as GitHub Copilot and Cognition.ai's Devin

We appreciate top talent moves fast, we will try to get the interviews done as quickly as you can. You will have the chance to speak to our recruitment team at various points during your process.

Don't tick every box? Don't worry, if you're talented our team would like to chat to you. Our team have diverse backgrounds with former entrepreneurs, multi-disciplined practitioners, and people from all over the world. We have many roles within the same Developer Enablement group that are open, and we can find a role, or even create one that fits you.

What we'll provide you

By joining Citi Belfast, 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.