3 months ago
Base Salary
$170k - $254k/yr
Responsibilities
- Influence the Digital team’s technology strategy in alignment with Citi Technology.
- Architect and deliver scalable, high-performance solutions across APIs, integrations, and infrastructure.
- Set and enforce engineering standards and lead design reviews, proof-of-concepts, and technical experiments.
- Translate complex requirements into software design artifacts and guide consistent implementation.
- Mentor and technically coach engineers through hands-on collaboration, pairing, and feedback.
- Coordinate estimation, solution planning, implementation leadership, and technical delivery across teams.
- Embed resilience, high availability, and high-throughput practices into platform architecture.
- Identify and communicate technical risks to protect delivery timelines and platform integrity.
- Establish standards, frameworks, guardrails, and evaluation criteria for AI-augmented engineering.
Requirements
- 10 or more years of hands-on software design and development experience.
- Deep Java expertise and demonstrated commitment to clean code and SOLID engineering principles.
- Practical experience building medium- to large-scale applications with Spring Boot, OpenShift, public cloud, and event-driven technology stacks.
- Ability to design and deliver core client-facing APIs and infrastructure.
- Experience setting engineering standards, leading design reviews and proof-of-concepts, and creating software design artifacts.
- Experience mentoring engineers and coordinating technical delivery across internal and cross-functional teams.
- Experience with resilience, high availability, high-throughput design, technical risk management, estimation, and solution planning.
- Clear communication skills for explaining technical decisions and delivery risks to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Bachelor’s or university degree required; master’s degree preferred.
- Preferred knowledge of applied AI, including LLMs, frontier-model APIs, retrieval-augmented generation, embeddings, vector search, agent and tool-use patterns, prompt and context engineering, and LLM evaluation and observability.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage; 401(k); life, accident, and disability insurance; wellness programs; paid vacation, sick leave, and holidays.
- Full-time position based in Irving, Texas, with an anticipated posting close date of August 14, 2026.
About Citi
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.