Senior Back End Java Developer

CITI; Toronto; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent financial institution seeks a Senior Software Engineer in Toronto. The role involves leading projects, mentoring junior developers, and utilizing software engineering expertise to address complex application issues. Ideal candidates will possess a Bachelor's degree and have 5-8 years of relevant experience, demonstrating strong leadership and communication skills while ensuring compliance with industry standards.

Qualifications

• 5-8 years of relevant experience in software development.
• Experience in leading and implementing successful projects.
• Ability to make technical decisions on software development projects.

Responsibilities

• Work with a team to deliver key projects and guide junior developers.
• Oversee technical issue escalation and resolution.
• Contribute to planning, budget management, and resource planning.

Skills

Leadership

Software Engineering

Communication

Problem Solving

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Job description

Job Description

The Applications Development Sr Programmer Analyst is an engineer position responsible for delivering key projects and guiding junior developers in an effort to establish and implement new or revised application systems and programs in coordination with the Technology team. The overall objective of this role is to work with other team members on applications systems analysis and programming activities.

Responsibilities:

• Work with Applications Development professionals to accomplish established goals and conduct personnel duties for team (e.g. performance evaluations, training and development, hiring and disciplinary actions) as well as act as an advisor or coach to mid-level developers and analysts
• Oversee process for technical issue escalation and prioritize technical issue resolution
• Leverage skills across Applications Development area to provide technical oversight across systems and applications
• Communicate internal and external departmental interdependence as well as cross product and cross project
• Resolve issues using in-depth knowledge of concepts and procedures within applications development
• Utilize in-depth specialty knowledge of applications development to analyze complex problems/issues, provide evaluation of business processes, system processes, and industry standards, and make evaluative judgement
• Contribute to planning, budget management, formulation of procedures, and resource planning negotiating with external parties when necessary
• 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.

Qualifications:

• 5-8 years of relevant experience
• Experience in leading and implementing successful projects
• Ability to take ownership and make technical decisions on software development projects
• Experience with dependency management, change management, continuous integration testing tools, and audit/compliance requirements
• Extensive knowledge of software engineering and object-oriented design
• Demonstrated leadership and management skills
• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication

Education:

• Bachelor's degree/University degree or equivalent experience

This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.

The Global Fixed Income Trade Processing (FiTP) Team is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Java) with a proven track record of design and developing large, complex and distributed systems.

This role is within the FiTP team in Toronto, Canada. The successful individual will ideally have a strong knowledge of Fixed Income products and experience in building software systems to handle the capture and processing of high volume of such trades.

In this fast paced environment you must be able to prioritize tasks, work within deadlines, taking a pragmatic and thoughtful approach, paying close attention to details. You will need to employ strong communication skills, necessary to effectively produce client solutions.

The senior developer will have the following characteristics:

• Proven background in developing large distributed systems to address complex business problems.
• Ability to perform thorough requirement analysis and create comprehensive design for business features.
• Keen to produce well-crafted software living up to highest quality standards.
• Enthusiastic in learning and adopting industry-leading technologies into work.
• Ability to work independently with ownership to estimation and timeline
• Self-motivated and with determination to achieve goals
• Good team working skills and ability to work in a virtual team environment.
• Ability to think critically, identify improvement opportunities within application and team, come up with solutions and drive the execution.
• Well-organized and able to prioritize multiple tasks to achieve maximum output.

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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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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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