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Reactivate your Career: Software Engineer

Job Req Id:
25893364
Location(s):
Belfast, United Kingdom
Job Type:
On-Site/Resident
Posted:
Aug. 11, 2025

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

You’re ready to build on your skills and experience and advance your career; Citi wants to help you get there. Whether it’s honing your skills or building your network, we know that success can’t come without growth. Our programmes equip you with the knowledge and training you need to play a valuable role on your team and establish a long-term career here. At Citi, we value career growth; it is not a question of if, but when.

Team/Role Overview

Using leading-edge technologies, you will be developing quality and scalable software solutions used to monitor trade, voice and e-communication activity to identify potential market abuse, insider dealing and other types of fraud. As part of our Agile teams you will write quality code that meets the requirements of the user stories, will support during testing cycles, sprint retrospectives and post-production deployment. To ensure defect-free programming, you will use the appropriate tools to test and debug code and participate in the review of peer coding. 

What you’ll do

You will join our Agile teams across technology to give you a breath of experience across a number of technologies. Assignments change each year based on the business needs of the teams, but below are some previous examples:

  • Developing applications in Java and various BigData Technologies like Spark and PySpark
  • Utilising software development tools like: JIRA, BitBucket, Artifactory, OpenShift(ECS/Docker) and  continuous integration/continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines
  • Gain experience in developing high quality surveillance applications making use of feature-based surveillance algorithms
  • Work on various SQL and NoSQL databases - Oracle, HDFS etc. handling various data uses cases
  • Work on latest design and software architecture patterns and frameworks - Microservices, APIs, Spring
  • Gain exposure to Containers using Docker/Kubernetes and Cloud infrastructure, Cloud technologies (PAAS, IAAS, SAAS)
  • Working with machine learning and AI
  • Work on latest User Interface technologies in collaboration with our UX team

What we’ll need from you

  • Right to live and work in the United Kingdom
  • Have been on a career break for 2+ years
  • Demonstrate motivation for joining both the programme and Citi
  • Interested in technology and innovation
  • Attention to detail, organising and planning abilities
  • Appetite to learn new skills 
  • Enthusiastic team worker who will contribute confidently in a team environment

What we can offer you

We work hard to have a positive financial and social impact on the communities we serve. In turn, we put our employees first and provide the best-in-class benefits they need to be well, live well and save well.

We’ll provide you with the resources to meet your unique needs, empower you to make healthy decisions and allow you to choose which benefits suit you and your personal life best.

Visit our Global Benefits page to learn more.

Highlights of our core benefits include:

  • Award winning pension
  • On-site health services
  • Private medical insurance packages to suit your personal circumstances
  • Paid parental leave
  • Generous holiday allowance starting at 27 Days plus bank holidays; increasing with tenure

Citi Belfast also champions diversity within our workforce, which helps us be well and live well together. We have over 40 different nationalities in our Northern Ireland offices, are a vocal supporter of LGBTQ+ rights, and are proud to have 47% of our leadership team made up of individuals who identify as women.

We encourage and lead inclusivity through our Pride, Disability, Multicultural, Families Matter, and Women affinity networks that are run by and for, Citi Belfast colleagues; providing them with the support they need in their personal and professional journeys and supplying them with the tools to help educate colleagues on all things related to each network to help us work better together. 

Sound like Citi has everything you need? Then apply to join the world’s most global bank and discover the true extent of your capabilities.

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Job Family Group:

Technology

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Job Family:

Digital Software Engineering

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Time Type:

Full time

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Most Relevant Skills

Please see the requirements listed above.

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Other Relevant Skills

For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.

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Citi is an equal opportunity employer, and qualified candidates will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristic protected by law.

If you are a person with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation to use our search tools and/or apply for a career opportunity review Accessibility at Citi.

View Citi’s EEO Policy Statement and the Know Your Rights poster.

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