Citi

Senior Java Developer, Applications Development – Assistant Vice President

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2 months 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

Citi is a public financial-services company offering consumer and institutional banking, credit cards, wealth management, treasury and trade solutions, and capital-markets services. It serves individuals, corporations, financial institutions, and governments in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions, earning interest and fee income from lending, payments, trading, and advisory. Founded in 1812 and headquartered in New York, it trades on the NYSE under the ticker C.

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