Senior Java Full Stack Developer - Vice President

Citi; Maharashtra; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Citi is seeking a Senior Java Full Stack Developer - Vice President to lead a team and drive the delivery of enterprise scale applications in coordination with the Technology team. You will guide architecture, programming, and system analysis, in an agile setting with DevOps‑driven practices.

Responsibilities include ensuring high quality code, mentoring engineers, and delivering robust solutions with a focus on performance, security, and reliability for end‑to‑end software delivery.

Qualifications

• 12-15 years of professional Full Stack software engineering experience.
• Web apps with Java, Angular/React, and Oracle/PostgreSQL stack.
• Experience with RESTful APIs and Kafka messaging.
• Experience using AI-driven tools (Devin, Co-pilot, Gemini).
• Elastic Search, NoSQL databases, caching; performance tuning.
• Designer with emphasis on security and TDD.
• Strong problem solving, leadership, and communication.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team in an agile Scrum environment and provide direction.
• Analyze requirements, clarify scope, estimate, and ensure acceptance criteria.
• Design, develop, and deliver code that meets functional and non‑functional needs.
• Review code and mentor peers to improve overall quality.
• Introduce DevOps practices: automated builds, tests, and security scans.
• Troubleshoot production incidents and drive root‑cause fixes.
• Automate repetitive tasks to reduce operational risk and improve SDLC.

Skills

Java

Angular/React

RESTful APIs

Kafka

NoSQL databases

Elastic Search

Caching solutions

Test driven development

Security

Gen-AI tools

Education

Bachelor’s degree / University degree or equivalent experience

Job description

Senior Java Full Stack Developer - Vice President responsible for providing full leadership and direction to a team of employees in an effort to establish and implement new or revised application systems and programs in coordination with the Technology team. The overall objective of this role is to lead applications systems analysis and programming activities.

Responsibilities:

• Work in an agile environment following through the best practices of agile Scrum.
• Analyze the requirements, seek clarifications, contribute to good acceptance criteria, estimate, and be committed.
• Take pride in designing solutions, developing the code free from defects and vulnerabilities, meeting functional and non-functional requirements by following modern engineering practices, reducing rework, continuously addressing technical debt.
• Contribute to overall team performance by helping others, peer reviewing the code diligently.
• Bring agility to application development through DevOps practices - automated builds, unit/functional tests, static/dynamic scans, regression tests etc.
• Lookout for providing best possible customer support by troubleshooting, resolving production incidents and by eliminating the problems from the root level.
• Bring innovative solutions to reduce the operational risks by automating mundane repetitive tasks across SDLC.
• Learn to become full stack developer to address end-to-end delivery of user stories.

Qualifications:

• 12-15 years of professional experience as Full Stack software engineering experience in developing enterprise scale applications.
• Expertise in building web applications using Java, Angular/React, and Oracle/PostgreSQL technology stack.
• Expertise in enterprise integrations through RESTful APIs, Kafka messaging etc.
• Expertise in using AI driven tools like Devin, Co-pilot, Gemini and other Gen-AI tools.
• Expertise in Elastic Search, NoSQL databases, and Caching solutions.
• Expertise in designing and optimizing the software solutions for performance and stability.
• Expertise in troubleshooting and problem solving.
• Expertise in Test driven development.
• Expertise in Authentication, Authorization, and Security.

Recommended Qualifications:

• 12-15 years of relevant experience
• Experience in managing and implementing successful projects
• Ability to take ownership and make technical decisions on software development projects
• Experience with dependency management, change management, continuous integration testing tools, and audit/compliance requirements
• Extensive knowledge of software engineering and object-oriented design
• Demonstrated leadership and management skills
• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication
• Education:
• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience

Job Family Group:

Technology

Job Family:

Digital Software Engineering

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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