Senior Blockchain Engineer - Digital Assets Platform

Citi Group; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Citi is seeking a Senior Blockchain Engineer for the Digital Assets Platform. The role focuses on backend development with Java Spring, blockchain tech, and web3 capabilities within a large enterprise setting.

You will work with a distributed team to deliver end-to-end features, contribute to design patterns, and maintain technical documentation while ensuring high quality and scalable solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS or Engineering; MS/PhD in CS or related discipline is a plus.
• Extensive experience in full software development and testing lifecycle, preferably in financial services.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with team to implement web applications using blockchain tech.
• Own end-to-end delivery of functionality leveraging blockchain tech.
• Solve engineering challenges to meet stakeholder requirements with quality.

Skills

Full stack development

Java Spring

Web3 knowledge

Team collaboration

CS fundamentals

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or Engineering

MS/PhD in CS or related (a plus)

Tools

Git

Jira

Jenkins

Web3J

Web3JS

Helm Charts

Job description

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

• 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.

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