Citi

Senior Java Developer, Applications Development – Assistant Vice President

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25 days ago
Mississauga, CanadaSenior

Base Salary

$94k - $142k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and develop efficient, reusable Java code for high-volume, low-latency applications.
  • Architect RESTful APIs and scalable backend services using Spring and Spring Boot.
  • Translate business and user requirements into technical specifications, low-level designs, and solution architecture artifacts.
  • Evaluate and champion technologies and frameworks that improve the application stack.
  • Build and maintain unit, integration, and performance test automation.
  • Lead peer code reviews and raise engineering standards across the team.
  • Own production systems, including diagnosing and resolving critical issues.
  • Collaborate with business analysts, project managers, and senior engineers to deliver software and maintain technical documentation.

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of professional Java development experience with substantial exposure to cloud environments and distributed systems.
  • Expertise in Java, RESTful API design, cloud engineering principles, Spring, and Spring Boot.
  • Experience with relational databases such as Oracle and SQL and NoSQL technologies including MongoDB.
  • Practical experience with OpenShift, Kubernetes, MQ, and Kafka.
  • Knowledge of clean code principles, design patterns, test-driven development, Agile methodologies, and the software development lifecycle.
  • Hands-on experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using DevOps tooling.
  • Ability to lead technical delivery autonomously, manage competing priorities, and perform under pressure.
  • Preferred experience in financial services and payments processing, generative AI and large language models, mainframe integration, event-driven or API-based architectures, Kafka, and subject-matter expertise in an applications-development area.

Benefits

  • Hybrid working model with 3 days in the office and 2 days working remotely.
  • Exposure to globally significant and technically complex financial systems.
  • Ongoing learning and development, including technical training, architectural reviews, and cross-team knowledge sharing.
  • Benefits and financial wellbeing support tailored to the employee's location.
  • Wellbeing and work-life balance resources.
  • Full-time employment.

Tech Stack

Apache KafkaJavaKubernetesMongoDBOpenShiftSpring BootSQL

Categories

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About Citi

10,000+ employees

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