Backend Engineer (Kotlin/Java) – AI-Driven Dev Tooling

Citi

Belfast City District

Hybrid

GBP 75,000 - 110,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working (up to 2 days at home)
Competitive base salary
Pension
Private medical care
Life insurance
Employee assistance programme
Learning & development resources
Generous leave

Job summary

Citi Belfast is seeking a server-side engineer to join the CTO organisation, working on developer platforms and internal tools used by thousands of engineers. You will contribute back-end services, shape architecture, and stay ahead with GenAI in a fast-paced, startup-like environment inside a global bank.

You’ll join a distributed team across Belfast, Canada and London, with a hybrid working model and a strong culture of engineering craftsmanship.

Qualifications

  • Proven experience delivering within technical projects.
  • Hands-on experience building and running production-grade services.
  • Strong server-side engineering skills in Kotlin or Java (Java 21).
  • Experience with RESTful APIs and databases (SQL/NoSQL).
  • Familiarity with containerization and orchestration (Docker/Kubernetes).

Responsibilities

  • Write code and deliver backend services.
  • Contribute high-quality code regularly and set technical standards.
  • Influence architectural direction and roadmaps.
  • Stay current with GenAI and apply new ideas to products.
  • Collaborate across distributed teams to meet requirements.

Skills

Kotlin
Java
REST APIs
Distributed systems
Microservices

Tools

Spring Boot
http4k
ktor
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
Apache Kafka
Docker
Kubernetes
OpenShift
Tekton
Harness

Job description

Citi Belfast is seeking a server-side engineer to join the CTO organisation, working on developer platforms and internal tools used by thousands of engineers. You will contribute back-end services, shape architecture, and stay ahead with GenAI in a fast-paced, startup-like environment inside a global bank.

You’ll join a distributed team across Belfast, Canada and London, with a hybrid working model and a strong culture of engineering craftsmanship.

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