18 hours ago
Base Salary
$142k - $213k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable, high-performance back-office trading applications using clean code, SOLID principles, and modern design patterns.
- Implement trunk-based development, feature flags, progressive delivery, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, DevOps practices, and automated testing.
- Build distributed, event-driven microservices using Kafka, Solace, Tibco, and MQ for low-latency and highly available trading systems.
- Apply TDD, BDD, secure coding, vulnerability assessments, and rigorous code reviews to maintain quality and security.
- Collaborate on scalable system architectures and technical design documentation with architects, product owners, and cross-functional teams.
- Optimize deployment pipelines, observability tooling, production monitoring, and resilience in partnership with DevOps teams.
- Lead technical discussions, mentor junior engineers, and promote continuous learning and engineering excellence.
- Support mortgage workflow re-engineering, equity growth and resiliency initiatives, and AI workflow work within the cash securities domain.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or industry equivalent experience is required; a master’s degree is preferred.
- Strong hands-on proficiency in Kotlin, Java, and Python for production-grade enterprise applications.
- Deep expertise in microservices architecture, system design, Spring Boot, distributed systems, high availability, fault tolerance, and low-latency computing.
- Experience with Kafka, Solace, Tibco, and MQ, including high-throughput data pipelines.
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and OpenShift.
- Solid experience with relational databases, particularly Oracle SQL, in high-performance transactional environments.
- Experience with trunk-based development, feature flags, progressive delivery, TDD, BDD, automation-first testing, and high test coverage.
- Proficiency in CI/CD pipeline design and operation, DevOps principles, secure coding, and vulnerability assessment methodologies.
- Experience conducting code reviews, leading technical discussions, mentoring engineers, and working in cross-functional agile product teams.
- Familiarity with performance tuning, observability, and production monitoring in distributed, high-availability financial systems.
Benefits
- Full-time position based in Jersey City, New Jersey.
- Salary range of $142,320.00–$213,480.00, with potential discretionary and formulaic incentive and retention awards.
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage; 401(k); life, accident, and disability insurance; and wellness programs.
- Paid vacation, sick leave, and holidays.
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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.