Senior Java Backend Developer & Assistant Vice President

Citi; Mississauga; On-site; CAD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution is seeking a Development Engineer to join their Banking Technology team in Mississauga, Canada. This role emphasizes hands-on development using Java and Spring, focusing on designing and deploying innovative solutions. The ideal candidate will have over five years of experience and be part of a collaborative environment where creativity and problem-solving are essential. Apply now to work on exciting projects that impact the banking sector globally.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of development experience in Java tech stack.
• Experience in mobile application design and architecture.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deploy Java solutions in collaboration with the team.
• Participate in designing strategic solutions based on business priorities.
• Lead teams to troubleshoot and solve technical issues.

Skills

Java development experience

Spring

REST-API

Microservices best practices

NoSQL databases

Git

Agile methodologies

CI/CD tools

Tools

Gradle

MongoDB

Cucumber

Job description

Citi's Banking Technology is a business aligned technology organization focused on providing best-in-class products and services to our global clients while solving our bankers’ biggest pain points. We are a cross-functional, globally distributed team of talented individuals, creating platforms and products that aim to deliver innovative solutions to bankers and clients by applying the latest engineering standards, agile operating model, and DevOps practices. Banking technology is focused on building a cross‑functional team of talented individuals, creating a unique platform to deliver products that will disrupt the industry through technical innovation and creativity. Building upon the success of our Deal Management function in Citi Banking, we are seeking a highly effective and innovative engineering lead with experience in mobile and web development of event‑driven platforms. A successful candidate as part of their role would also be managing our agile delivery team. These teams work closely with our business partners/area product owners to build strategic solutions for our clients in investment banking.

Our Impact:

Deal Management function in Citi Banking creates deal lifecycle enterprise solutions for our users located in over 100 countries. We are looking to digitize our deal management capabilities and integrate end‑to‑end workflows for our business users. As part of this strategic initiative, we are building an event‑driven platform that can serve as one‑stop for all deal workflows across all product lines.

Your Impact:

As a development engineer in Deal Management, you will work with other technology specialists to design and implement solutions solving banking use cases. You will participate in project implementation with project managers, product managers, quality engineers and team members to analyze business requirements, outline the proposed IT solution, build and release solutions to our business users. Your ownership will be hands‑on development, participating in engineering activities—coding, peer reviews and CI/CD activities, production releases with the team to deploy solutions to production. Your responsibility also includes ensuring solutions built by you adhere to the technical architecture and data model principles followed by our organization. You will also have several opportunities to build innovative solutions throughout design, development, and adoption across other teams. We embrace a culture of experimentation and constantly strive for improvement and learning. You'll work in a collaborative, trusting, thought‑provoking environment that encourages diversity of thought and creative solutions that are in the best interests of our customers globally.

Key Responsibilities:

• Hands‑on development in Java, Spring Boot, micro‑services and single‑page application framework in collaboration with rest of the team.
• Design, code and deploy strategic solutions for requirements prioritized from business users.
• Code review functionalities built by team and ensure the quality and correctness of solution as per business requirement.
• Participate in initiatives within team to improve and build solutions around configurable and extensible solutions.
• Participate in application lifecycle using agile methodologies and bi‑weekly sprints.
• Triage technical issues and lead teams toward solving problem.

Key Critical Skills:

• Development experience in Java tech stack.
• 5+ years of development experience in Spring, Kafka, REST‑API.
• Must have deep understanding of micro‑service and microservices best practices, patterns—Spring Boot microservices is highly preferred.
• Hands‑on experience with NoSQL database like MongoDB, performance tuning and integration with Java applications.
• Knowledge and experience using popular build tools like Gradle.
• Knowledge and experience in TDD, BDD and modern testing frameworks like Cucumber, Spring.
• Understanding of source control and experience working with modern tools that support it, such as Git.
• Experience in mobile application design and architecture disciplines.
• Ability to work collaboratively in teams and develop meaningful relationships to achieve common goals.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Passionate about building an innovative culture.
• Excellent verbal communication skills.
• Good problem‑solving skills.
• Understanding and experience using CI/CD tools like Harness, LightSpeed Enterprise.
• Possess a functional orientation, understanding how development work translates to the business end‑user.
• Ability to work in large, collaborative teams to achieve team goals.

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