Java/Microservices Software Development Engineer, AVP

Citigroup Inc.; Irving (TX); On-site; USD 107,000 - 161,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading global bank as a Java/Microservices Software Development Engineer, where you'll leverage your expertise to drive innovation in financial technology. This role offers the opportunity to impact application design and development, work with cutting-edge technologies, and collaborate with diverse teams. You'll be part of a dynamic environment that values creativity and problem-solving, ensuring that our systems meet the highest standards of performance and reliability. If you're passionate about technology and eager to contribute to a mission-driven organization, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Medical, dental & vision coverage

401(k)

Life, accident, and disability insurance

Wellness programs

Paid time off packages

Planned time off (vacation)

Unplanned time off (sick leave)

Paid holidays

Qualifications

• 5+ years in product development or management.
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills.
• Experience leading infrastructure programs.

Responsibilities

• Lead mid-size application design and development efforts.
• Analyze and troubleshoot coding and performance challenges.
• Participate in the full development life cycle.

Skills

Analytical Skills

Problem Solving

Agile Methodology

Communication Skills

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s/University degree

Tools

Docker

AWS

Kubernetes

Java

Python

NodeJS

Job description

Citi, the leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Citi provides consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management.

As a bank with a brain and a soul, Citi creates economic value that is systemically responsible and in our clients’ best interests. As a financial institution that touches every region of the world and every sector that shapes your daily life, our Enterprise Operations & Technology teams are charged with a mission that rivals any large tech company. Our technology solutions are the foundations of everything we do from keeping the bank safe, managing global resources, and providing the technical tools our workers need to be successful to designing our digital architecture and ensuring our platforms provide a first-class customer experience. We reimagine client and partner experiences to deliver excellence through secure, reliable, and efficient services.

Our commitment to diversity includes a workforce that represents the clients we serve from all walks of life, backgrounds, and origins. We foster an environment where the best people want to work. We value and demand respect for others, promote individuals based on merit, and ensure opportunities for personal development are widely available to all. Ideal candidates are innovators with well-rounded backgrounds who bring their authentic selves to work and complement our culture of delivering results with pride. If you are a problem solver who seeks passion in your work, come join us. We’ll enable growth and progress together.

Position Overview:

The Java/Microservices Software Development Engineer is a seasoned professional role. Applies in-depth disciplinary knowledge, contributing to the development of new techniques and the improvement of processes and work-flow for the area or function. Integrates subject matter and industry expertise within a defined area. Requires in-depth understanding of how areas collectively integrate within the sub-function as well as coordinate and contribute to the objectives of the function and overall business. Evaluates moderately complex and variable issues with substantial potential impact, where development of an approach/taking of an action involves weighing various alternatives and balancing potentially conflicting situations using multiple sources of information. Requires good analytical skills in order to filter, prioritize and validate potentially complex and dynamic material from multiple sources. Strong communication and diplomacy skills are required. Regularly assumes informal/formal leadership role within teams. Involved in coaching and training of new recruits Significant impact in terms of project size, geography, etc. by influencing decisions through advice, counsel and/or facilitating services to others in area of specialization. Work and performance of all teams in the area are directly affected by the performance of the individual.

Responsibilities:

• Accountable for executing and driving mid-size feature application design and development efforts to completion, serving as a development lead on medium-scale projects and supporting the execution of larger efforts.
• Proficient at operating with considerable autonomy and discretion as you will significantly influence the way an application is designed and developed by providing subject specific expertise and an advanced level of understanding of application programming principles.
• Sought after due to ability to analyze and troubleshoot coding, application performance and design challenges.
• Capable of research in root cause of development and performance concerns as well as the resolution of defects.
• Have a deep understanding of the technical requirements for the solutions being built.
• Understand engineering needs including those required to build, maintain, and operate the system through all phases of its life.
• Proficient in information modeling, data structures and algorithms.
• Understand maintenance characteristics, runtime properties and dependencies that exist in support of your system’s software. These dependencies will include but not limited to: hardware, platform, operating system, performance and load requirements, as well as contingencies with upstream and downstream systems.
• Demonstrate an advanced understanding of supported main system flows and possess a comprehensive understanding of how the system and others (i.e. architecture or infrastructure) collectively integrate to contribute towards achieving business objectives. Using this expertise, assist with the development of standards for coding, testing, debugging and implementation. This will ensure application design adheres to the overall architecture blueprint.
• Participate in design discussions as a Development Lead and as such will play the part of a key decision maker in driving design decisions. This is evidenced by your knowledge of the application code details and your experience with the technology and teams engaged.
• Work with limited guidance, seeking guidance only as needed as the development and delivery strategy is defined; the design is not.
• Exhibit the ability to turn complex application design into a well written application.
• Partner with industry vendors that provide technology or user experience design components that support our Digital architecture and work with vendors on our implementation plans and roadmaps identifying partnership opportunities to increase our development velocity and our learnings.
• Participates in the full development life cycle, identify dependencies between agile and waterfall delivery, working within broadly defined parameters, including test plan execution and software quality needs
• Directly impact the business by influencing strategic functional decisions through advice, counsel or provided services. This will require persuading and influencing others through strong and comprehensive communication and diplomacy skills.
• Communicate progress, anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, identify, assess, track and mitigate issues/risks at multiple levels.
• Recognize discordant views and take part in constructive dialog to resolve them.
• Work across teams to optimize processes.
• Regularly review metrics and proactively seek out new and improved mechanisms for visibility ensuring your program stays aligned with organization objectives.
• Continuously assess development processes, test plans, and operations.
• Work with teams to improve concurrent project delivery.
• Streamline and / or eliminate excess process in any area of architecture, build, delivery, production operations environment, or business area where the same efforts (or issues) are repeated year-over-year.
• Share knowledge with the team in various forums (brown bags, engineering forums etc.) and demonstrate a higher level of knowledge through industry certifications
• 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.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years in a product development/product management environment
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills; Data driven and results-oriented
• Experience delivering with an agile methodology
• Experience in affecting large culture change
• Experience leading infrastructure programs
• Skilled at working with third party service providers
• Excellent written and oral communication skills

Education:

• Bachelor’s/University degree or equivalent experience

Desirable Skills

• Exposure using cloud technologies like Docker containers, running apps on EKS or other Kubernetes solution like OSE, PKS, GKE etc
• Exposure to architecting and developing 12/15 Factor Apps Exposure public CSPs like AWS, GCP, Sales Force, Blue mix and experience in architecting apps for multi / hybrid cloud environments
• Exposure in designing and building micro services adhering to domain driven design concepts
• Programming experience Java, nodeJS, Python
• Exposure to various database and data grid technologies RDBMS, noSQL and able to develop patterns for usage
• Knowledge of industry standard interface architectures (REST, SOAP etc) and protocols (HTTP, JMS, AMQP, MQ etc.)
• Exposure to emerging cloud native patterns and technologies like service mesh, reactive programming, event driven programming, function services etc.
• Exposure to API gateway and Ingress controller products (e.g. AWS API g/w, APIGEE, Ngnix etc.)
• Exposure to Streams processing using Kafka, RabbitMQ, StreamSets/Talend.
• Knowledge or exposure of Gen AI architectures, Design and develop algorithms for generative models using deep learning techniques, etc. preferred.

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Job Family Group:

Technology

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Job Family:

Digital Software Engineering

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Time Type:

Full time

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Primary Location:

Irving Texas United States

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Primary Location Full Time Salary Range:

$107,120.00 - $160,680.00

In addition to salary, 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.

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Anticipated Posting Close Date:

May 12, 2025

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