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Full Stack Engineering Team Lead - Senior Vice President

Citi
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 18 Aug 2026
💰 $212,160/yr($141,440/yr$212,160/yr)

About the role

We are looking for hands-on full-stack engineering team leads who are passionate about solving business problems through innovation and engineering practices. The team lead plays a meaningful role in crafting and maintaining the strategic partnership between business needs and technology delivery within the construct of an Agile team. The role is to own an Agile team’s efforts to plan, design, develop, and launch efficient systems and solutions in support of our core organizational functions. In addition to managing members of an agile team, there is also an expectation to contribute to the codebase and deliver solutions against the sprint-level commitments.

Responsibilities:

  • Leadership and Execution:

    • Code contributing leader of an Agile team, working to deliver sprint goals, as well as conduct personnel duties for team (e.g., performance evaluations, hiring, promotions and disciplinary actions).

    • Design, document, and develop world-class enterprise applications leveraging the latest technologies and design patterns.

    • Lead a team of full stack engineers on end-end software solution design, development and delivery using modern tech stack/tools.

    • Provide technical guidance, expertise, and direction to team members, ensuring adherence to coding standards, best practices, and conducting code reviews to maintain code quality

    • Identifying and resolving technical and non-technical challenges, making informed decisions, and ensuring the team's ability to overcome obstacles

    • Actively seeking opportunities to improve software development processes, tools, and practices. Identifying areas for optimization, automation, and efficiency gains. Sharing knowledge and promoting continuous learning within the team

    • Able to work independently and with your team to deliver software successfully.

    • Deliver work that is consistently of a high quality (e.g., secure, testable, maintainable, low-defects, efficient, etc.) and incorporates best practices.

    • Focus on operational excellence, constructively identifying problems and proposing solutions, taking on projects that improve your team’s software, making it better and easier to maintain.

    • Influence and negotiate with senior leaders across functions, as well as communicate with external parties, as necessary

    • Lead integration of functions to meet goals, deploy new products, and enhance processes

    • Analyze complex business processes, system processes, and industry standards to define and develop solutions to high level problems

    • Provide expertise in area of advanced knowledge of applications programming and plan assignments involving large budgets, cross functional project, or multiple projects

    • Develop application methodologies and standards for program analysis, design, coding, testing, debugging, and implementation

    • Utilize advanced knowledge of supported main system flows and comprehensive knowledge of multiple areas to achieve technology goals

    • Consult with end users to identify system function specifications and incorporate into overall system design

    • Allocate work, and act as an advisor/coach developers, analysts, and new team members

  • Communication and Risk Management: Effectively communicate progress, proactively anticipate bottlenecks, provide skilled escalation management, and adeptly identify, assess, track, and mitigate issues and risks across various levels. 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.

  • AI-Driven Development: Leverage AI tools, such as GitHub Copilot, to enhance development efficiency, accelerate delivery timelines, and optimize software solutions.

  • AI Landscape Awareness: Maintain awareness of the rapidly evolving AI landscape and proactively propose innovative approaches to implement product features.

  • Problem Solving and Troubleshooting: Possess the expertise to analyze and effectively troubleshoot complex coding, application performance, and design challenges.

  • Root Cause Analysis: Capable of conducting thorough research to identify the root causes of development and performance issues, as well as devising and implementing effective defect resolutions.

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