Senior Java Developer - Assistant Vice President

Citibank (Switzerland) AG; Hyderabad; Hybrid; INR 3,500,000 - 5,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Citi FX Technology in Hyderabad is seeking a Senior Java Developer (AVP) to drive core development for FX trade processing and platform modernization.

You will contribute hands-on to integration, cloud enablement, and leverage SME guidance to establish coding and testing standards across global teams.

Qualifications

• Strong core Java experience and hands-on backend development.
• Proficient with Spring Boot, Spring Security and OAuth.
• 8+ years of experience in software development.
• Experience with Gradle or Maven and CI/CD tooling.
• Linux/Unix skills and familiarity with Jenkins/TeamCity.
• Knowledge of Kafka, OpenShift, Docker is advantageous.
• Exposure to observability tools and modern scaling/orchestration.

Responsibilities

• Support modernisation of the FX trade processing platform.
• Assist migration to a new risk platform by integrating feed, reconciliation and controls.
• Adopt cloud solutions to enable automated testing and reduce environment management.
• Promote best practices across the FX developer community and mentor juniors.
• Provide in-depth analysis to define issues and create innovative solutions.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Spring Security

OAuth

Clean code

Test-driven development

Linux

Jenkins

Gradle

Maven

TeamCity

Kafka

Docker

OpenShift

Grafana

Opentelemetry

GenAI

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Gradle

Maven

Jenkins

TeamCity

Docker

OpenShift

Kafka

Grafana

Opentelemetry

Conductor

Temporal

GenAI

Job description

## Senior Java Developer - Assistant Vice PresidentApply: Hybrid: DLF CYBERCITY 12B: Full time: Posted Today: End Date: October 9, 2026 (7 days left to apply): 26997175Senior 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.