Senior AI Frontend Engineer; Developer Productivity), VP

Position: Senior AI Frontend Engineer (Developer Productivity), VP
## For additional information, please review .We're seeking a Senior Frontend Engineer with a strong React/Type Script background, passionate about crafting exceptional AI product experiences. You'll own the user-facing layer of our next generation Developer Productivity platform @ Citi, transforming complex AI capabilities - from chat interfaces to rich data visualizations - into intuitive, trustworthy experiences. You'll collaborate closely with other AI, Software Engineers and the Product team to leverage bleeding-edge Generative AI.
You'll be joining a small, high-impact team challenging, changing, modernising & enhancing the experience of our 50,000 engineers globally throughout Citi's SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle).

** Where you'll work:
** You’ll sit within Development Enablement, part of Citi’s CTO organisation. 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 transform developer productivity saving our engineers tens of minutes per day, equating to £10,000,000s of savings at Citi’s scale
** Your first 90 days - become a citizen within Developer Enablement's AI & UX
** By the end of your third month, you will have:
* Released to production a small new or enhanced AI-first user interface that will have positively impacted the lives of thousands of Software Engineers and Business Analysts working in Software Requirements Engineering.
* Started raising the bar in our React.

JS codebase introducing better componentisation, testing, storybook.
* Have an established network of UI engineers across the organisation to contribute and learn about best practice.
* Get buy in from the team on architectural principles, ways of working and system requirements. For example: you might choose to separate core logic from the framework in the Generated by Stylus Work spaces Internal Use Only 2 UI; using Zustand as the data layer; we also may decide that we want the UI to respond to any action in under 100ms.
** By the end of your first year
** At this point, you will have an opinionated view on the specific challenges that AI-first UI design & engineering challenges are, helping younger members of the team as well as other specialists to understand how to collaborate better to support high-standard UI engineering.  By the end of this first year, you will have:
* Owned and championed the implementation of best practices for interaction design within the team, establishing clear guidelines for AI-specific UX patterns.
* Mentored junior engineers on best practices for designing and implementing AI-driven user interfaces.
* Designed & implemented production-grade features for AI solutions.
* Contributed with AI-specific UX expertise to solving problems that require AI expertise.
* Helped scoping and planning future AI development work.
* Further expanded our suite of eval metrics & techniques to simplify Agentic-AI dev.
* Consistent interactions with Engineering Leads across CTO to unblock shipping to prod.
* Represented Developer Enablement with regards to our AI-specific UX to stakeholders on multiple occasions.

Here’s a list of what makes you a stronger fit to join our team:
* Strong expertise (5–10+ years) building modern frontend applications with React and Type Script.
* Proficiency in JavaScript, React (or another UI framework), and Type Script
* Experience with state management libraries (redux, context API, zustand), for building well structured applications.
* Experience with storybook or componentised development.
* Proficiency in implementing streaming and real-time experiences (e.g., word/token streaming, live updates, progress/status indicators). Generated by Stylus Work spaces Internal Use Only 3
* Strong understanding of frontend architectures, state management, performance optimisation, and responsive design.
* Hands-on experience with any tools like Lang Chain / Lang Graph / Vercel AI SDK / Google ADK (Agent Development Kit).
* Familiarity with CI/CD tools (e.g.: Jenkins, Tekton, ArgoCD, Harness, etc).
** Tools and technologies you might use
*** React, Type Script, Next.js/Vite,…