Lead Java Developer (VP) in London

Job ID: 95890781792

Posted: 2026-07-13

Location: London, England, United Kingdom

Category: Technology, Applications Development, Professional

Company: Citi

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: Engineer the future of global finance. 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.

Job Purpose: Citi is the Market Maker and a global leader in all major Fixed Income markets across the globe. Unified Fixed Income Trade Processing (FITP) is Citi’s primary Fixed Income trading platform processing Derivatives, Cash, Exotics and SFT products with 3800+ Trading, Sales, Middle Office users globally. Unified FITP, built on state of the art technology stack processes around 200,000 transactions daily and provides real time position, risk management capabilities. It has connectivity to 100+ electronic trading venues and 20+ regulatory bodies globally. We are looking for a talented and passionate individual to join our application development team and continue to evolve our next-generation trading application. They would lead the efforts to transition our application to smaller services, full automated CI/CD pipelines enabling faster time to market. The successful candidate will gain valuable exposure to the Fixed Income Trading business and an opportunity to work on a large scale, modern technology platform with a global presence.

Responsibilities:

• Lead or guide developers in an Application Development team in an effort to accomplish established goals as well as conduct personnel duties for team (e.g. performance evaluations, hiring and disciplinary actions).
• Utilize in-depth knowledge and skills across multiple Applications Development areas to provide technical oversight across systems and applications.
• Develop comprehensive knowledge of how areas of business integrate to accomplish business goals.
• Provide evaluative judgment based on analysis of factual data in complicated and unique situations.
• Develop common, reusable components and services utilizing Citi’s best practices.
• Create high performance, low latency applications leveraging existing Citi framework.
• Ensure strong reliability, scalability and performance of our components.
• Liaise with technical and business teams to collaborate on identifying opportunities and solutions.
• Drive architecture and execute on our technical strategy.
• Partner with business to continue to evolve our architecture roadmap beyond near term objectives.
• Impact the Applications Development area through monitoring delivery of end results, participate in budget management, and handling day-to-day staff management issues, including resource management and allocation of work within the team/project.
• Ensure essential procedures are followed and contribute to defining standards negotiating with external parties when necessary.
• Appropriately 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 behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency, as well as effectively supervise the activity of others and create accountability with those who fail to maintain these standards.

Qualifications:

• Strong proven relevant commercial experience in the Financial Service industry.
• Solid understanding of financial products like Fixed Income securities and expertise on Security Financing Transactions.
• Experience as senior developer and tech expert in an Applications Development team with good understanding of major programming languages/frameworks like Java / Spring stack for microservice development and a demonstrable understanding of Java internals (JIT, advanced debugging scenarios, JVM memory management etc.).
• Extensive experience in building applications delivered on cloud-based services.
• Experience in microservices architecture based application development for high volume.
• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication.
• Demonstrable understanding and experience of engineering best practices: design patterns, coding standard, code review, unit testing via Mockito and Junit.
• Ability to develop strong relationships with others, effectively influencing peers and business partners.
• Self-motivated and organized, with determination to achieve goals; ability to work autonomously when required.
• Proven project management skills.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience.
• Master’s degree preferred.

What we’ll provide you: By 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:

• 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.