Senior FX Java Developer - Assistant Vice President

Citigroup Inc.; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Citi in Hyderabad is seeking a Senior FX Java Developer to drive strategic initiatives on the FX trading platform.

Join a global technology team focused on modernisation, cloud enablement, and scalable, high-quality software delivery, with emphasis on coaching juniors and integrating trade feeds and risk components.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required.
• 8+ years of relevant experience in Java development and FX tech preferred.
• Strong knowledge of clean code, test-driven development, and modern software practices.

Responsibilities

• Support modernisation of FX trade processing platform.
• Assist migration to new risk platform by building trade feed, reconciliation, and control components.
• Champion cloud adoption, automation testing, and environment management.
• Provide expert Java development guidance and coach junior team members.
• Ensure coding standards align with architectural blueprint and system integration goals.

Skills

Core Java

Spring Boot

Spring Security

OAuth

Clean code / TDD

Problem solving

CI/CD

Linux/Unix

Jenkins/TeamCity

Kafka

OpenShift

Docker

Observability (Grafana/OpenTelemetry)

Conductor / Temporal

GenAI awareness

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Gradle

Maven

Linux

Jenkins

TeamCity

Kafka

OpenShift

Docker

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Job description

## Senior FX Java Developer - Assistant Vice PresidentApply: Hybrid: DLF CYBERCITY 12B: Full time: Posted Today: End Date: October 23, 2026 (10 days left to apply): 26998624Senior FX Java Developer Citi FX Technology would like to hire a senior Java developer to work on strategic initiatives on our FX trade processing platform. The successful candidate will also support the improvement of our software development, build and deploy practices, and will champion the use of best practices across our global development teams. Citi has the largest FX presence of any bank globally. Our physical presence in 83 countries gives us unrivalled insight into global FX markets. Our clients benefit from this as well as unparalleled liquidity. We trade over 140 different currencies out of our 83 centres, so it's no surprise that Citi FX has the broadest range of clients out of all the major FX banks. Our network is our strength. We would be nothing without our people. We value their skills, motivation and experience. Increasing investment in technology has seen us roll out award winning applications. The successful candidate will be ready to dive into running projects and contribute, hands-on, to integration, modernisation, cloud-enablement, and working with SMEs in FX Technology to create practical standards of best practice. Responsibilities:• Support the modernisation of our FX trade processing platform.• Support the migration to our new strategic risk platform by building and integrating trade feed, reconciliation and control components.• Support and help to adopt internal and external cloud solutions, to:o Enable improved automation testing and reduce the need for manual involvement in environment management.o Reduce the duration of the regression testing cycle and make it easier to test multiple projects in parallel.o The role will focus not only on new, greenfield projects, but will have a particular emphasis on established, older technology, supporting automation in order to facilitate the migration to strategic platforms.• Champion best practice across our FX developer community and serve as a coach to more junior team members and analysts.• Resolve a variety of high impact problems/projects through in-depth evaluation of complex business processes, system processes, and industry standards• Provide expertise in area and advanced knowledge of Java development and ensure application design adheres to the overall architecture blueprint• Utilize advanced knowledge of system flow and develop standards for coding, testing, debugging, and implementation• Develop comprehensive knowledge of how areas of business, such as architecture and infrastructure, integrate to accomplish business goals• Provide in-depth analysis with interpretive thinking to define issues and develop innovative solutions Required Skills:• Strong core Java experience• Springboot, Spring Security, OAuth• 8+ YOE is a mandate• Thorough knowledge of clean code practices and test-driven development• Experience working with build tools such as Gradle and Maven• Solid Linux/Unix skills• Experience of using one or more build platforms (Jenkins, TeamCity)• Knowledge of Apache Kafka an advantage• Knowledge of Openshift is an advantage• Knowledge of Docker is an advantage• Observability exposure (Grafana, Opentelemetry, etc.)• Modern scaling, orchestration frameworks such as Conductor, Temporal is a plus.• Experience and handson exposure to GenAI is sought for the role. Education:• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.