Senior Blockchain Engineer - Digital Assets Platform

Citibank (Switzerland) AG; Greater London; On-site; Confidential; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

27 days annual leave

Private Medical Care & Life Insurance

Pension Plan

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

Citi London is hiring a Senior Blockchain Engineer for the Digital Assets Platform. You will be a hands-on backend engineer (Java Spring) focusing on scalable web applications and web3 integration, contributing to the CIDAP project within Citi's engineering network.

Strong enterprise development experience and familiarity with Web3 libraries are required. This role offers hybrid work up to two days per week, a competitive base salary, and a comprehensive benefits package.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS or Engineering; MS/PhD a plus.
• Extensive software development & testing lifecycle experience.
• Experience in backend web development with Java Spring; fintech exposure a plus.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate on web app implementations leveraging blockchain tech.
• Own end-to-end delivery of applications meeting quality standards.
• Contribute to docs and collaborate in a distributed team.

Skills

Backend Java Spring

Web3 application development

Asynchronous programming

Enterprise web apps

Design patterns

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS or Engineering

MS/PhD in computer science (plus)

Tools

Web3J

Web3JS

Git

Jira

Jenkins

Helm Charts

Job description

## Senior Blockchain Engineer - Digital Assets PlatformApplyremote type: Hybridlocations: London United Kingdomtime type: Full timeposted on: Posted Todayjob requisition id: 26983945**26983945 Senior Blockchain Engineer - Digital Assets Platform****Discover your future at Citi**Working at Citi is far more than just a job. A career with us means joining a team of more than 230,000 dedicated people from around the globe. At Citi, you’ll have the opportunity to grow your career, give back to your community and make a real impact.**Job Overview**An **Digital Assets Platform Senior Blockchain Engineer** must be a highly motivated and proactive hands-on software engineer (**Back End, Java Focus**), have a proven ability and experience working with web applications in production. The successful candidate will be part of the core team continuing to build our **Citi Integrated Digital Assets Platform (CIDAP)**. The ideal candidate will be a self-driven, proactive, strong enterprise developer and resourceful team player who can comfortably work with a large team of highly motivated individuals within Citi’s larger software engineering network.We are looking for candidates who understand how to build the backend of enterprise-grade web applications. The successful individual should understand the basics of web3 infrastructure, blockchain technology and digital assets, and **must be a strong enterprise developer of web applications**. Experience and knowledge of web3 application development is a plus.**Key Responsibilities:**In this role, you will be handling the following (but not limited to) responsibilities:* To collaborate with team members in implementation approach of web applications leveraging blockchain technology* To own and to delivery functional scope end-to-end of applications leveraging blockchain technology meeting our quality standards* To solve solution engineering challenges to meet our stakeholders’ requirements and expectations* To know and properly use best and common practices, and design patterns for enterprise web applications* To know and properly use best and common practices, and design patterns for web3 applications* To properly use collaborative tools to manage and deliver work in a distributed team* To contribute and maintain tech documents for code and applications built and maintained* To be a team player and properly communicate in a distributed team* Help resolve/escalate issues as needed to successfully deliver projects on time, on budget and with quality**Qualifications/ Experience*** Bachelor’s degree in CS or Engineering; MS or PhD in computer science, or related discipline a plus* Extensive experience in full software development and testing lifecycle. Experience from financial services industry is a plus.* Proven experience and expertise with Backend web development with Java spring* Proven experience in web3 application development is a plus* Solid experience and expertise developing web applications using asynchronous programming and communication* Experience and expertise developing web applications adhering to best practices and patterns for reliability, scalability, and performance* Familiarity with web3 libraries like Web3J and Web3JS is a plus* Familiarity with common and best practices for web3 applications is a plus* Familiarity of Solidity code and best practices is a plus* Familiarity of basics of DevOps and containerize applications is a plus* Familiarity of Agile Methodology and Scrum is a plus**Competencies/ Skills*** Enjoy coding :)* Strong team player with ability to communicate to technical / non-technical stakeholders at all levels and a start-up mindset.* Proven history of delivering high-quality, increasingly complex, commercial software products.* Strong engineering fundamentals (testing, code reviews, code structure, readable and maintainable code).* Hands-on development experience as a full stack developer building enterprise-grade web applications* Excellent computer science fundamentals: demonstrable command of data structures, algorithms, and design patterns along with capability to translate them into working, elegant code.* Intricate knowledge of controls for consistent deployment and management of applications using best-in-class with toolsets such as git, Jira, Jenkins, Helm Charts, etc.**Development Value:**You will gain significant experience of the technologies and businesses and engineering groups across Citi, giving you exposure to new and existing methodologies and systems as well as the opportunity to work with multiple teams around the globe. As a member of the Citi Integrated Digital Assets Platform engineering team, you will have to opportunity to work with a team of highly motivated, T-shaped, smart individuals who think out of the box and look for disruptive opportunities for commercial benefit.Exposure to newly released and upcoming technologies and the ability to positively contribute to the strategies of the business. By working within the senior leadership team you will be highly visible across Citi and will have access to Citi’s executive management team.This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.**What we’ll provide you**By joining Citi London, you will not only be part of a business casual workplace with a hybrid working model (up to 2 days working at home per week), but also receive a competitive base salary (which is annually reviewed), and enjoy a whole host of additional benefits such as:* 27 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)* A discretional annual performance related bonus* Private Medical Care & Life Insurance* Employee Assistance Program* Pension Plan* Paid Parental Leave* Special discounts for employees, family, and friends* Access to an array of learning and development resourcesVisit our Global Benefits page to learn more.Alongside these benefits Citi is committed to ensuring our workplace is where everyone feels comfortable coming to work as their whole self, every day. We want the best talent around the world to be energized to join us, motivated to stay and empowered to thrive.