Design Engineer - Vice President

We’re looking for a Design Engineer to help build our next generation Developer Experience (DevEx) platform at Citi. You’ll be joining a small, high-impact team, shaping the daily lives of our 50,000 engineers globally.

You’ll be comfortable with design, front-end development, can assist with user research, and are passionate about your user’s needs.

Where you’ll work

You’llsit within Development Enablement, part of Citi’s CTO organisation – A group focused on innovation, developer platforms and internal tools. We operate like a startup inside a global bank: shipping fast andexperimenting.

What you’ll do in your first year

By day 45 - Build a component used by engineers in production 

You’llidentify a pain point in the engineering workflow and solve it- for example, jumping between a JIRA issue and related builds or pull requests. You will design in Figma, buildthe interaction design (e.g. CSS animations/d3.js) in Storybook, and ship the finished UI component to production.

Outcome: Your component will help engineers complete a key task at least 50% faster 

By 3 months – Validate what we’re building and creating relationships

You’ll actively seek feedback through both informal and formal user testing sessions. You’ll will have established relationships with engineers across the org and begun capturing metrics to show your work is making a difference.

Outcome: Network of relationships outside the team, iterated on designs based on feedback and discovered a few actionable KPIs that can prove we’resolving real problems.

By 6 months - Establish a base of UI components and patterns that shape the way engineers interact with their developer workflows

You will have shipped a few components - for example, a CI/CD status view, or a widget that show production errors- and started extracting reusable patterns and best practices that form the foundation for our design.

Outcome: Several components built inside of storybook and shipped to production. Your components or designs will have also influenced 1-2 external teams across CTO and even inspired design changes across Citi.

• You’llget to combine your unique design and engineering skills to push boundaries others can’t and change the way internal platforms are made.
  

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

Visit our Global Benefits page to learn more.

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.

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