Senior Java Developer Lead

Citi; Mississauga; Hybrid; CAD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Citi is seeking a motivated senior developer to join their Wholesale Lending Credit Risk Technology team in Mississauga. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in Java and Spring Boot, contributing to the development of innovative cloud-native solutions in a hybrid-agile environment, while also mentoring junior developers. This is an excellent opportunity to expand your expertise in a dynamic and collaborative setting.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in software development with Java and Spring Boot.
• Experience with cloud-native applications and CI/CD tools.
• Excellent communication skills and team collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Lead development and implementation of projects using Java and Spring Boot.
• Write and review high-quality code, ensuring performance and efficiency.
• Collaborate with global teams and communicate progress to stakeholders.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Data Structures

Cloud Native Development

Performance Tuning

Multithreading

SQL

Agile Methodologies

Design Patterns

Debugging

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

Jenkins

Kafka

Docker

Kubernetes

Linux

Job description

Citi is embarking on a multi-year technology initiative in Wholesale Lending Credit Risk (WLCR) Technology Space. In this Journey, we are looking for a highly motivated hands-on senior developer with excellent data skills. We are building the platform, which supports various Messaging, API, and Workflow Components for Loans Services across the bank. Solution will be built from the scratch using latest technologies. The candidate will be a core member of the technology team responsible for implementing projects based on Java, Spring Boot, Kafka using latest technologies. Excellent opportunity to immerse in and learn within the Wholesale Lending Division and gain exposure to business and technology initiatives targeted to maintain lead position among its competitors. We work in a Hybrid-Agile Environment. Responsibilities:

• Expert Hands-on Lead - Writes good quality code in Java, Sprint Boot (related stack)
• Expert on JUnit, Mockito, Integration Tests and Performance Tests
• Sound technical Design & Architecture skills, expert in implementing appropriate design patterns
• Sound Analytic and problem-solving skills
• Good Experience on performance tuning – should be able to use required tools effectively to find the root causes
• Good Experience on taking full end to end ownership of developing cloud native micro services
• Ability to effectively interact, collaborate with development team
• Ability to effectively communicate development progress to the Global Leads & senior management
• Work with leads onshore, offshore and matrix teams to implement a business solution
• Writing High Performance Parallel Processing using Multi-Threading and Multi-Processing
• Write user/supported documentation
• Evaluate and adopt new dev tools, libraries, and approaches to improve delivery quality
• Perform peer code review of project codebase changes
• Acts as SME to senior stakeholders and /or other team members
• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding, 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

Skills Required:

• 6+ years of experience in industry of software development(Java, Sprint Boot)
• Good Knowledge of Spring including Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring Web, Spring Data
• Expert Hands-on Knowledge of: Threading, Collections, Exception Handling, JDBC, Java OOD/OOP Concepts, GoF Design Patterns, MoM and SOA Design Patterns, File I/O, and parsing XML and JSON, delimited files and fixed length files, String matching, parsing, building, working with binary data / byte arrays.
• Good knowledge of SQL (Oracle dialect is preferable)
• Experience working with SOA & Micro-services utilizing REST.
• Experience with design and implementations of cloud-ready applications and deployment pipelines on large-scale container platform clusters is a plus
• Experience working in a Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery environment and familiar with Tekton, Harness, Jenkins, Code Quality, etc.
• Proficient in industry standard best practices such as Design Patterns, Coding Standards, Coding modularity, Prototypes etc.
• Experience in debugging, tuning and optimizing components
• Understanding of the SDLC lifecycle for Agile & Waterfall methodologies
• · Excellent written and oral communication skills
• · Experience developing application in Financial Services industry is preferred
• · Good Leadership skills to coach junior developers and manage stake holder expectation

Nice to have experience:

• Messaging Systems: RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, Kafka, Tibco. IBM MQ, etc.
• Tomcat, Jetty, Apache HTTPD
• Able to work with build/configure/deploy automation tools
• Linux Ecosystem
• Kubernetes and Docker
• Autosys
• APM Tools: Dynatrace, AppDynamics, etc.
• Caching Technologies: Hazelcast, MemCached, Redis etc
• Machine Learnining, LLM and
• Mongo Db
• Redis

Education: • Bachelor’s degree/University • Master’s degree preferred

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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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