Senior Payments Platform Engineer & Leader

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

Job summary

Citi is seeking a Senior Engineering Lead for the Payments Platform in Tampa, FL. You will architect and lead the delivery of resilient, AI-powered microservices handling real-time payments, collaborate with product owners, risk and compliance teams, and mentor engineers across the organization.

The role emphasizes scale, security, and reliability, with opportunities to shape Citi's payments technology strategy in a global context.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software engineering with enterprise payments or transactional systems.
• SME in Java, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud and related frameworks for payments.
• Experience building resilient microservices with high availability.
• Strong CI/CD and observability practices in regulated environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead integration of payments functions and deploy new capabilities.
• Define designs for high-volume, real-time payment processing.
• Mentor engineers and collaborate with stakeholders across teams.
• Drive compliance with PCI-DSS, AML/KYC and regulatory standards.
• Architect AI-powered self-healing and predictive scaling pipelines.

Skills

Java

Python

Microservices

AI/ML prototypes

Payments domain

Leadership

CI/CD tooling

Systems thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Spring Boot

Spring Cloud

Reactive frameworks

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Oracle

Redis

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK Stack

Splunk

Apache Kafka

Job description

Citi is seeking a Senior Engineering Lead for the Payments Platform in Tampa, FL. You will architect and lead the delivery of resilient, AI-powered microservices handling real-time payments, collaborate with product owners, risk and compliance teams, and mentor engineers across the organization.

The role emphasizes scale, security, and reliability, with opportunities to shape Citi's payments technology strategy in a global context.