Assistant Vice President - Java Development

Citi Group; Pune District; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Citi India is seeking experienced full-stack software engineers to solve business problems through innovative engineering practices. You will write code, pair with developers, and decompose acceptance criteria within an agile team.

Roles focus on full-stack development with Java, Spring Boot, AWS and Oracle, leveraging cloud-native patterns, microservices, and modern CI/CD pipelines in an enterprise context.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in Java and OOP concepts.
• Strong understanding of data structures and design patterns.
• Experience with cloud-native development and container orchestration.
• Hands-on with REST/GraphQL services and microservices architectures.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and agile methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Apply depth of knowledge to all phases of the software development lifecycle.
• Develop within an Agile delivery team and deliver sprint goals.
• Contribute to design, documentation and development of enterprise applications.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and align with technical standards and strategies.
• Mentor and participate in Citi's technical community and practices.

Skills

Java development

Agile/Scrum

Data structures & OOP

Education

B.Tech/B.E. or equivalent

Tools

Spring Boot

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenShift

REST

GraphQL

CI/CD

Job description

The Role

We are looking for experienced and proficient full-stack software engineers who are passionate about solving business problems through innovation and engineering practices. This role will be responsible for writing code, pairing with other developers as appropriate, decomposing acceptance criteria to understand team backlog deliverables, complexities, and risk, while working as a strong contributor on an agile team.

From a technical standpoint, the Software Engineer has full-stack coding and implementation responsibilities and adheres to best practice principles, including modern cloud-based software development, agile and scrum, code quality, and tool usage. The Software Engineer works to understand and influence software architecture, while contributing to Citi's and GFT's technical user base.

Responsibilities

• Apply depth of knowledge and expertise to all aspects of the software development lifecycle, as well as partner continuously with stakeholders on a regular basis
• Develop and engineer solutions within an Agile software delivery team, working to collaboratively deliver sprint goals, write code, and participate in the broader Citi technical community and team-level Agile and Scrum processes.
• Contribute to the design, documentation, and development of world-class enterprise applications leveraging the latest technologies and software design patterns.
• Leverage technical knowledge of concepts and procedures within own area and basic knowledge of other areas to resolve issues, as necessary.
• Follow and contribute to defining technical and team standards.
• Collaborate technical leadership to achieve established goals, in line with our broader technical strategy.

Required Qualifications

• 9+ years of experience as a Software Engineer/Developer using Java
• Multiple years of experience with software engineering best practices (unit testing, automation, design patterns, peer review, etc.)
• Clear understanding of Data Structures and Object Oriented Principles using Java
• Multiple years of experience with Cloud-native development and Container Orchestration tools (Serverless, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, etc.)
• Multiple years of experience on Service Oriented and MicroServices architectures, including REST and GraphQL implementations
• Multiple years of experience with frameworks like Spring Boot, Quarkus, Micronaut, or Vert.x
• Exposure to front-end technologies (Angular, Javascript, Typescript)
• Exposure to Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, either on-premise or public cloud (i.e., Tekton, Harness, CircleCI, Cloudbees Jenkins, etc.)
• Multiple years of experience with agile and iterative software delivery (SCRUM, Kanban)
• Exposure to Database technologies (RDBMS, NoSQL, Oracle, MySQL, Mongo)
• Exposure to event-driven design and architecture (i.e., Kafka, Spark Flink, RabbitMQ, etc.)
• B.Tech/B.Engg degree or equivalent work experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Exposure to architecture experience in building horizontally scalable, highly available, highly resilient, and low latency applications
• Exposure to Cloud infrastructure both on-premise and public cloud (i.e., OpenShift, AWS, etc.)
• Exposure to API Management tools
• Exposure to Infrastructure as Code tools (i.e., Terraform, Cloudformation, etc.)
• Exposure to Security, Observability, and Monitoring tools (i.e., Grafana Prometheus, Splunk, ELK, CloudWatch, etc.)
• Experience mentoring and providing technical leadership for teams of 5 or more developers
• Exposure to Job Schedulers (i.e. Autosys, Cloudwatch, etc.)

Required technical skills - Java, Spring boot, AWS and Oracle

Job Family Group: Technology

Job Family: Applications Development

Time Type: Full time

Most Relevant Skills: Please see the requirements listed above.

Other Relevant Skills: For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.

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