Full Stack Developer - Vice President

Citi; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 170,000 - 241,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Learning and development programs

Collaboration across regions and teams

Financial wellbeing and work-life bal

Job summary

Citi is seeking a Senior Full Stack Developer to design and build backend services in Java 17+ and create responsive React interfaces for Citi's risk and finance teams. You will collaborate across Risk, Finance, and Front Office to deliver scalable, reliable systems that support regulatory programs and capital reporting.

The role emphasizes technical leadership, mentoring engineers, and delivering across the full technology stack in a hybrid work environment.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of hands-on engineering experience, including technical leadership responsibilities.
• A degree in a STEM or Finance-related discipline.
• Experience building enterprise-grade backend applications using Java 17 or higher, NoSQL, and Spring.
• Experience building front-end applications using React.
• Experience with relational and document databases, data structures, caching, and reporting systems.
• A background managing or mentoring engineers, including teams across multiple time zones.
• Experience building RESTful web services using Java, Spring Boot, JSON, and SQL, with modern build tools.
• Experience designing event-driven microservices following 12-factor app development standards.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain high-performance backend services using Java 17+ to support risk and finance applications.
• Develop responsive, user-facing features using React for internal stakeholders.
• Design and review technical architecture for scalability, performance, and reliability.
• Drive critical work streams independently, setting direction and overseeing delivery toward measurable outcomes.
• Establish coding and design standards across frontend and backend development.
• Partner with Risk, Finance, and Front Office stakeholders to deliver projects across capital reporting.
• Mentor engineers across experience levels and time zones.
• Collaborate across teams to deliver software meeting client needs and performance expectations.

Job description

• Experience designing event-driven microservices following 12-factor app development standards.

Are you ready to build full stack applications that help protect Citi from financial risk? As a Full Stack Developer working across Java and React, you will design and build backend services and user-facing features for Citi's risk and finance organization, supporting the systems used to compute metrics that help manage exposure to counterparty default and meet regulatory programs such as CECL, GSST, IFRS9, and CCAR. You will work across the full technology stack, from scalable backend services to responsive front-end interfaces, while collaborating closely with engineers, analysts, and stakeholders across the business.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain high-performance backend services using Java 17 and above to support risk and finance applications.
• Develop responsive, user-facing features using React to deliver intuitive tools for internal stakeholders.
• Design and review technical architecture to ensure scalability, performance, and reliability across the application stack.
• Drive critical work streams independently, setting direction and overseeing delivery toward measurable outcomes.
• Establish coding and design standards that the team adopts consistently across front-end and backend development.
• Partner with stakeholders across Risk, Finance, and Front Office teams, as well as external market regulators, to deliver projects spanning the capital reporting spectrum.
• Mentor engineers at different experience levels and support their professional growth.
• Collaborate across teams to deliver software that meets client needs and exceeds performance expectations.

Required Qualifications & Skills

• 6+ years of hands-on engineering experience, including technical leadership responsibilities.
• A degree in a STEM or Finance-related discipline.
• Experience building enterprise-grade backend applications using Java 17 or higher, NoSQL, and Spring.
• Experience building front-end applications using React.
• Experience with relational and document databases, data structures, caching, and reporting systems.
• A background managing or mentoring engineers, including teams working across multiple time zones.
• Experience working with large and complex codebases.
• Experience building RESTful web services using Java, Spring Boot, JSON, and SQL, along with modern build tools.
• Experience designing event-driven microservices following 12-factor app development standards.
• Familiarity with CI/CD and orchestration tools such as Tekton or Harness.

Beneficial Skills & Qualifications

• Experience in the financial industry, particularly in Credit Risk or Market Risk Capital domains.
• Experience building and deploying enterprise applications to public or private cloud platforms, including AWS.
• Experience with distributed caching systems such as Apache Ignite or Redis.
• Experience with big data platforms and technologies such as Hadoop, Hive, HDFS, Presto, Starburst, Spark, or Kafka.
• Experience using Spring Framework and cloud computing for batch and real-time high-volume data processing.
• Experience interpreting complex SQL queries and applying database design concepts such as data modeling and logical or conceptual design.
• A bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.

What We Offer

Join a team where your full stack skills directly shape how Citi manages financial risk, while working in an environment built around professional growth, flexibility, and long-term stability.

• A hybrid working model with three days in the office and two days working remotely.
• The opportunity to work across the full technology stack and influence decisions across a global risk and finance organization.
• Access to learning and development programs to support your continued growth as a technologist.
• Collaboration with teams and stakeholders across multiple regions and business functions.
• Resources supporting financial wellbeing, family support, and work-life balance.
• A performance-driven environment where your impact on client and regulatory outcomes is visible and valued.

Join Citi's Stress Testing engineering team and build the full stack systems that help safeguard the firm against financial risk.

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Job Family Group:

Technology

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Job Family:

Applications Development

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Time Type:

Full time

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Primary Location Full Time Salary Range:

$120,800.00 - $170,800.00

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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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