Senior Java Developer, Assistant Vice President

Citibank (Switzerland) AG; Mississauga; Hybrid; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Citibank (Switzerland) AG in Mississauga, Canada, is seeking a Senior Java Developer (Assistant Vice President) to join our Technology team. You will contribute to feasibility studies, design, development, testing, and delivery of high‑quality distributed applications for capital markets.

You will work with modern stacks including Java 17+, Spring Boot, Kafka, Kubernetes, Docker and microservices, participate in CI/CD pipelines, code reviews, and performance tuning, and mentor junior engineers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field.
• Strong Java development background with Spring Boot.
• Experience building distributed microservices and REST APIs.
• Proficiency with CI/CD pipelines and code reviews.
• Knowledge of containers, orchestration, and cloud-native patterns.

Responsibilities

• Conduct feasibility studies, estimates, and IT planning for projects.
• Develop, test, and implement new or revised applications.
• Monitor design, construction, testing, and deployment phases.
• Advise on security measures and support operations post go-live.

Skills

Java 17+

Spring Boot

REST API design

Unit testing

Design patterns

Microservices

CI/CD

Problem solving

Team collaboration

Technical leadership

Agile/scrum

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Helm

Apache Kafka

Apache Flink

GRPC

MongoDB

SQL

Jenkins

CI/CD tooling

Job description

## Senior Java Developer, Assistant Vice PresidentApply: Hybrid: Mississauga Ontario Canada: Full time: Posted Today: 26998117This position gives an excellent opportunity for the selected candidate to play a significant role in an exciting and critical business within Citi. As a member of our highly acclaimed Technology team, this role provides the opportunity to participate in and shape the expansion and pre-eminence of our Business working together with our team of highly skilled technologists. We believe it is even more special to do this as part of Citi, a premier financial institution that is one of the biggest and best in the market, and as a part of our team that has a high visibility for our work both inside our larger organization as well as in the global Capital Markets world. The position will enable you to leverage Citi’s incomparable geographical reach, product richness, and engineering expertise and to translate these into a successful and top-of-the-class product offering for our customers. **Responsibilities:*** Conduct tasks related to feasibility studies, time and cost estimates, IT planning, risk technology, applications development, model development, and establish and implement new or revised applications systems and programs to meet specific business needs or user areas* Monitor and control all phases of development process and analysis, design, construction, testing, and implementation as well as provide user and operational support on applications to business users* Utilize in-depth specialty knowledge of applications development to analyze complex problems/issues, provide evaluation of business process, system process, and industry standards, and make evaluative judgement* Recommend and develop security measures in post implementation analysis of business usage to ensure successful system design and functionality* Consult with users/clients and other technology groups on issues, recommend advanced programming solutions, and install and assist customer exposure systems* Ensure essential procedures are followed and help define operating standards and processes* Serve as advisor or coach to new or lower level analysts* Has the ability to operate with a limited level of direct supervision.* Can exercise independence of judgement and autonomy.* Acts as SME to senior stakeholders and /or other team members.* 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.* Follow agile methodology and address new function/enhancement/fixes for existing batches and new batches**Qualifications:*** 4+ years of relevant experience in Java (Java 17 or more) , experience with Spring Boot, KAFKA, APACHE FLINK, GRPC, ECS, Mongo, REST API, JUNIT and SQL Basics required* Java performance tuning* Kubernetes, Openshift, Gradle, Splunk, Prometheus* Knowledge of CI/CD Pipeline, Familiarity with TeamCity, Udeploy, Jenkins, Harness, SonarQube, Snyk* Experience with Design Patterns, Code Review, Coding standard, Unit testing with JNIT/Mockito* Experience in systems analysis and programming of software applications* Experience in managing and implementing successful projects* Working knowledge of consulting/project management techniques/methods* Ability to work under pressure and manage deadlines or unexpected changes in expectations or requirements**Education:*** Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience**Required Skills:*** Java 17 or more* Lombok (for reducing boilerplate code)* Spring boot, Spring JPA, Spring Cloud Config, Spring JDBC, Spring WebFlux* Kafka, Apache Flink, Spring Kafka* Docker (for containerizing applications)* Kubernetes (for orchestrating containerized workloads)* Helm (for managing Kubernetes applications)* Autosys* Relational Databases (e.g., SQL)* NoSQL Databases (e.g., MongoDB, Couchbase, Redis)* Microservices Architecture* CI/CCThis job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.