Senior Blockchain Engineer - Digital Assets Platform

Citi; Greater London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Competitive salary

Private Medical Care

Life Insurance

Pension Plan

Parental Leave

Learning resources

Job summary

Citi London is seeking a Senior Blockchain Engineer to join the Digital Assets Platform. You will contribute to the Citi Integrated Digital Assets Platform (CIDAP), building enterprise-grade web applications with a strong Java backend and Web3 integration.

The role requires hands-on development, collaboration across teams, and a proactive, startup-minded engineer. Hybrid work is available with a market-competitive salary and comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS or Engineering (MS/PhD a plus).
• Extensive experience in full software development and testing lifecycle; finance/FS exp is a plus.
• Proven backend development experience with Java Spring.
• Web3 application development experience is a plus.
• Experience with asynchronous programming and APIs.
• Familiarity with Web3 libraries such as Web3J/Web3JS.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate on implementation approaches for web applications using blockchain.
• Own delivery of end-to-end functional scope of blockchain-based apps.
• Solve engineering challenges to meet stakeholder requirements.
• Apply enterprise design patterns and best practices for reliability and performance.
• Maintain tech docs for code and applications built and maintained.
• Communicate effectively in a distributed team and resolve issues.

Skills

Java

Spring

Web3

Blockchain

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's in CS or Engineering

MS/PhD a plus

Tools

Web3J

Web3JS

Job description

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.

Key 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.

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 resources

Visit 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.

Time Type

Full time

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