Java Tech Lead - Vice President

Citigroup Inc.; Pune District; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Citi is hiring experienced Software Engineers in Pune to work on full-stack development within an Agile team. You will write code, collaborate in sprints, and contribute to architecture and design of world-class enterprise applications using Java, Spring Boot, and cloud-native patterns.

The role requires strong experience in REST/GraphQL, CI/CD pipelines, and microservices, with exposure to Kubernetes/OpenShift and modern DevOps practices. A BA/BS degree or equivalent is expected.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience as a Software Engineer / 5+ years of Development using Java
• Multiple years of experience with software engineering best practices (unit testing, automation, design patterns, peer review)
• Clear understanding of Data Structures and Object Oriented Principles using Java
• Multiple years of experience with Cloud-native development and Container Orchestration tools (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift)
• Multiple years of experience on Service Oriented and MicroServices architectures, including REST and GraphQL implementations
• Multiple years of experience with frameworks like Spring Boot
• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines (Tekton, Harness, CircleCI, CloudBees Jenkins)
• Multiple years of experience with agile and iterative software delivery
• BA/BS degree or equivalent work experience

Responsibilities

• Apply depth of knowledge to all aspects of the software development lifecycle and collaborate with stakeholders
• Develop within an Agile delivery team and help achieve sprint goals
• Contribute to design, documentation, and development of enterprise applications using modern patterns
• Resolve issues using depth of knowledge across own area and related domains
• Follow and contribute to technical and team standards
• Collaborate with technical leadership to meet set goals

Skills

Java

REST/GraphQL

Spring Boot

CI/CD

Cloud-native

Kubernetes

Docker

Agile delivery

Data Structures & OOP

Mentoring/Leadership

Education

BA/BS degree or equivalent work experience

Tools

OpenShift

Tekton

Harness

CircleCI

CloudBees Jenkins

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

We are looking for experienced 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

• 12+ years of experience as a Software Engineer/ 5+ years of Development 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
• 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
• BA/BS 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 event-driven design and architecture (i.e., Kafka, Spark Flink, 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 andprovidingtechnical leadership for teams of 5ormore developers

Exposure to database concepts (RDBMS, NoSQL) and web-based technologies (Angular/React) is a plus

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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