5 days ago
Mississauga, CanadaStaff+
Base Salary
$121k - $171k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the full software development lifecycle for mission-critical payment applications from architecture through deployment and production ownership.
- Design and build high-throughput, low-latency microservices using Java, Spring Boot, and cloud-native principles.
- Architect active-active multi-region failover, zero-downtime releases, and blue-green or canary deployment pipelines targeting 99.99%+ availability.
- Modernize legacy payment platforms through Domain-Driven Design, event-driven architecture, Docker, and Kubernetes/OpenShift.
- Define and enforce standards for RESTful and event-based interfaces.
- Mentor and guide a cross-functional engineering team while establishing code review and technical quality practices.
- Integrate AI-powered developer tools and AI/ML capabilities such as anomaly detection, intelligent test generation, and observability into payment workflows.
- Partner with product managers, business analysts, and operations teams to translate financial requirements into scalable technical solutions.
- Establish end-to-end observability with distributed tracing, real-time alerting, and production dashboards.
Requirements
- 6+ years of software engineering experience delivering complex enterprise-scale applications, including at least 3 years in a technical leadership role.
- Expertise in Java and Spring Boot for production microservices, with front-end capability in Angular, HTML5, and CSS3.
- Practical knowledge of Circuit Breakers, Saga orchestration, and idempotent API design for high-throughput payment pipelines.
- Experience with Apache Kafka or RabbitMQ and containerization technologies including Docker and Kubernetes.
- Proficiency with relational databases such as Oracle and NoSQL databases such as MongoDB.
- Knowledge of CI/CD pipeline design, automated testing strategies, and modern DevOps practices.
- Experience adopting and scaling AI-powered development tools such as GitHub Copilot or equivalent LLM-based platforms.
- Experience establishing observability stacks with distributed tracing, real-time alerting, and production dashboards.
- Familiarity with financial services or payments standards such as SWIFT, ISO 20022, or clearing and settlement systems is beneficial.
- Experience integrating AI/ML capabilities such as predictive alerting or intelligent test generation into regulated production financial systems is beneficial.
- Exposure to AI-driven observability platforms is beneficial.
Benefits
- Hybrid working model with 3 days in the office and 2 days working remotely.
- Strategic technical ownership of global payment infrastructure operating across 160 countries.
- Access to Citi’s TTS Innovation Labs for collaboration and next-generation financial technology pilots.
- Continuous learning and professional development resources, including AI-accelerated development tooling.
- Competitive financial reward and wellbeing benefits.
- Opportunity to collaborate with global engineering, product, and operations teams.
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About Citi
Citi's mission is to serve as a trusted partner to our clients by responsibly providing financial services that enable growth and economic progress. Our core activities are safeguarding assets, lending money, making payments and accessing the capital markets on behalf of our clients. We have over 200 years of experience helping our clients meet the world's toughest challenges and embrace its greatest opportunities. We are Citi, the global bank – an institution connecting millions of people across hundreds of countries and cities. For information on Citi’s commitment to privacy, visit on.citi/privacy.