Senior Backend Java Lead & AVP - Enterprise Systems

United States Digital Space LLC; Mississauga; On-site; CAD 132,000 - 199,000; Full time

Job summary

Citigroup is seeking an Applications Development Senior Programmer Analyst to join its Technology team in a backend-focused role. You will contribute to the design, implementation, and optimization of enterprise application systems, collaborating with stakeholders and other technology groups.

The ideal candidate has 5–8+ years of Java development experience, strong Spring expertise, and a track record delivering secure REST APIs in a financial services environment.

Qualifications

• 5–8+ years in professional software development with backend Java.
• Strong Java 17/21 with Lambdas, Streams, and memory management.
• Hands-on Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring Data JPA.
• Oracle Database expertise including indexing and query tuning.
• Design/secure enterprise REST APIs.
• Docker and Kubernetes/OpenShift; CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with Kafka or IBM MQ and microservices patterns.
• JUnit, Mockito and TDD experience.

Responsibilities

• Conduct feasibility studies, estimates, and planning for applications development.
• Monitor all phases of development and provide user/operational support.
• Analyze complex problems and evaluate business and system processes.
• Define and enforce secure coding practices and security measures.
• Consult with users and tech groups; propose advanced programming solutions.
• Mentor junior analysts and operate with limited supervision.

Skills

Java 17/21

Spring Framework

REST APIs

ORM (JPA)

Multi-threading

Security best practices

CI/CD

Docker

Kafka

Cloud-native

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS/IT/Engineering

Tools

OpenShift/Kubernetes

CI/CD tools

Kafka/IBM MQ

Job description

Citigroup is seeking an Applications Development Senior Programmer Analyst to join its Technology team in a backend-focused role. You will contribute to the design, implementation, and optimization of enterprise application systems, collaborating with stakeholders and other technology groups.

The ideal candidate has 5–8+ years of Java development experience, strong Spring expertise, and a track record delivering secure REST APIs in a financial services environment.