Senior Back-End Java Engineer — Trading Platforms

Citigroup Inc.; Jersey City (NJ); Hybrid; USD 142,000 - 213,000; Full time

Job summary

Citi seeks a Senior Back-End Java Developer to design and sustain high‑performance back-office trading applications in Jersey City. You’ll drive trunk-based development, TDD/BDD, and CI/CD in a distributed microservices environment.

Lead engineering efforts with Kafka/Solace/Tibco/MQ and Kubernetes/OpenShift, ensuring low latency, high availability, and secure coding practices while mentoring peers and collaborating with product teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.
• Master’s degree preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain back-office trading applications with SOLID principles.
• Implement trunk-based development, feature flags and progressive delivery.
• Apply TDD/BDD and maintain high unit test coverage and reliability.
• Drive CI/CD, DevOps practices, and IaC for deployment pipelines.
• Build distributed, event-driven microservices using Kafka, Solace, Tibco, and MQ.

Skills

Kotlin

Java

Python

Microservices

Spring Boot

CI/CD

TDD/BDD

DevOps

Security

Education

Bachelor’s in Computer Science or related field

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

Kafka

Solace

Tibco

MQ

Kubernetes

Docker

OpenShift

Oracle SQL

Job description

Citi seeks a Senior Back-End Java Developer to design and sustain high‑performance back-office trading applications in Jersey City. You’ll drive trunk-based development, TDD/BDD, and CI/CD in a distributed microservices environment.

Lead engineering efforts with Kafka/Solace/Tibco/MQ and Kubernetes/OpenShift, ensuring low latency, high availability, and secure coding practices while mentoring peers and collaborating with product teams.