Full Stack Engineering Team Lead - Senior Vice President

Citi; Tampa (FL); On-site; USD 141,000 - 212,000; Full time

Job summary

Citi in Tampa, FL is seeking hands‑on full‑stack engineering team leads to drive delivery of enterprise applications within an Agile team. You will own and mentor an Agile team while also contributing to the codebase and delivering solutions against sprint commitments.

Ideal candidates have 10+ years of software development experience with Java, Spring Boot, React, and Oracle, plus leadership and cloud‑native skills. On-site role with a focus on delivering secure, scalable systems.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of proven software development experience focusing on Java, Spring Boot, React and Oracle.
• Demonstrated leadership, project management, and development skills.
• Proficiency in modern application architecture and cloud-native development.
• Experience with AI tools to enhance development workflows.

Responsibilities

• Lead an Agile team to plan, design, develop, and launch enterprise applications.
• Contribute to codebase and ensure high-quality, secure, maintainable software.
• Provide technical guidance and conduct code reviews to maintain standards.
• Deliver end-to-end solutions and manage performance evaluations, hiring, and promotions.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

React

Oracle

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science/Software Engineering or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

GitHub Enterprise

Jenkins

OpenShift

Maven

Gradle

JIRA

Job description

We are looking for hands‑on full‑stack engineering team leads who are passionate about solving business problems through innovation and engineering practices. The team lead plays a meaningful role in crafting and maintaining the strategic partnership between business needs and technology delivery within the construct of an Agile team. The role is to own an Agile team’s efforts to plan, design, develop, and launch efficient systems and solutions in support of our core organizational functions. In addition to managing members of an agile team, there is also an expectation to contribute to the codebase and deliver solutions against the sprint‑level commitments.

Responsibilities

• Leadership and Execution:
  • Code contributing leader of an Agile team, working to deliver sprint goals, as well as conduct personnel duties for team (e.g., performance evaluations, hiring, promotions and disciplinary actions).
  • Design, document, and develop world‑class enterprise applications leveraging the latest technologies and design patterns.
  • Lead a team of full stack engineers on end‑end software solution design, development and delivery using modern tech stack/tools.
  • Provide technical guidance, expertise, and direction to team members, ensuring adherence to coding standards, best practices, and conducting code reviews to maintain code quality.
  • Identifying and resolving technical and non‑technical challenges, making informed decisions, and ensuring the team’s ability to overcome obstacles.
  • Actively seeking opportunities to improve software development processes, tools, and practices. Identifying areas for optimization, automation, and efficiency gains. Sharing knowledge and promoting continuous learning within the team.
  • Able to work independently and with your team to deliver software successfully.
  • Deliver work that is consistently of a high quality (e.g., secure, testable, maintainable, low‑defects, efficient, etc.) and incorporates best practices.
  • Focus on operational excellence, constructively identifying problems and proposing solutions, taking on projects that improve your team’s software, making it better and easier to maintain.
  • Influence and negotiate with senior leaders across functions, as well as communicate with external parties, as necessary.
  • Lead integration of functions to meet goals, deploy new products, and enhance processes.
  • Analyze complex business processes, system processes, and industry standards to define and develop solutions to high level problems.
  • Provide expertise in area of advanced knowledge of applications programming and plan assignments involving large budgets, cross functional project, or multiple projects.
  • Develop application methodologies and standards for program analysis, design, coding, testing, debugging, and implementation.
  • Utilize advanced knowledge of supported main system flows and comprehensive knowledge of multiple areas to achieve technology goals.
  • Consult with end users to identify system function specifications and incorporate into overall system design.
  • Allocate work, and act as an advisor/coach developers, analysts, and new team members.
• Communication and Risk Management: Effectively communicate progress, proactively anticipate bottlenecks, provide skilled escalation management, and adeptly identify, assess, track, and mitigate issues and risks across various levels. Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm’s reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency, as well as effectively supervise the activity of others and create accountability with those who fail to maintain these standards.
• AI‑Driven Development: Leverage AI tools, such as GitHub Copilot, to enhance development efficiency, accelerate delivery timelines, and optimize software solutions.
• AI Landscape Awareness: Maintain awareness of the rapidly evolving AI landscape and proactively propose innovative approaches to implement product features.
• Problem Solving and Troubleshooting: Possess the expertise to analyze and effectively troubleshoot complex coding, application performance, and design challenges.
• Root Cause Analysis: Capable of conducting thorough research to identify the root causes of development and performance issues, as well as devising and implementing effective defect resolutions.
• Technical Acumen: Demonstrate a profound understanding of the technical requirements pertinent to the solutions under development.
• Containerization and Orchestration: Utilize Docker for application containerization and Kubernetes for efficient service orchestration.
• Process Optimization: Streamline, automate, or eliminate redundant processes within architecture, build, delivery, production operations, or business areas where similar efforts or issues recur annually.

Requirements

• Extensive Experience: 10+ years of proven software development experience, specializing in Java, Spring Boot, React and Oracle.
• Demonstrated knowledge of client core business functions.
• Demonstrated leadership, project management, and development skills.
• Relationship and consensus building skills.
• Modern Application Development:
  • In‑depth knowledge of modern application architecture Clear understanding of Data Structures and Object‑Oriented Principles using Java principles.
  • Multiple years of experience architecting and building horizontally scalable, highly available, highly resilient, and low latency applications.
  • Practical experience with Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools for enhancing development workflows.
  • Proficiency in Microservices frameworks (e.g., Spring Boot), Event‑Driven Services, and Cloud‑Native Application Development. Multiple years of experience on Service Oriented and Microservices architectures, including REST and GraphQL implementations.
  • Multiple years of experience with Cloud‑native development and Container Orchestration tools (Serverless, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, etc.).
  • Proficiency with Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines and tools for building (e.g., Maven, Gradle) and deploying code (e.g., Docker, Jenkins, OpenShift).
  • Experience with AWS is considered a significant advantage.
• Full Stack Proficiency: Demonstrated ability to design, develop, and maintain both front‑end and back‑end components of robust web applications.
• Front‑End Development: Strong expertise in developing intuitive user interfaces using contemporary JavaScript frameworks (e.g., React), HTML5, and CSS.
• Back‑End Development: Solid experience in developing server‑side logic and APIs using languages such as Java, Python, or similar.
• Database Expertise: Comprehensive knowledge of SQL and PL/SQL, with a deep understanding of Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS), particularly Oracle.
• API Development: Proven capability in designing, developing, and implementing high‑performance RESTful APIs leveraging appropriate frameworks and technologies.
• CI/CD and DevOps:
• Agile Methodologies: Practical experience working within Agile development methodologies and utilizing project management tools such as JIRA.
• Testing Automation: Ability to develop and automate comprehensive unit, integration, and end‑to‑end tests to ensure code quality.
• Version Control: Solid understanding and practical experience with code versioning tools, including GitHub Enterprise and Bitbucket.

Education

• A bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or a related field is required.

Job Information

• Job Family Group: Technology
• Job Family: Applications Development
• Time Type: Full time
• Primary Location: Tampa Florida United States
• Primary Location Full Time Salary Range: $141,440.00 - $212,160.00

Citi’s offerings may also include, for eligible employees, discretionary and formulaic incentive and retention awards. Citi offers competitive employee benefits, including: medical, dental & vision coverage; 401(k); life, accident, and disability insurance; and wellness programs. Citi also offers paid time off packages, including planned time off (vacation), unplanned time off (sick leave), and paid holidays. For additional information regarding Citi employee benefits, please visit citibenefits.com. Available offerings may vary by jurisdiction, job level, and date of hire.

Anticipated Posting Close Date: Aug 25, 2026

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