About Citi
Citi, the leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Citi provides consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management. Our core activities are safeguarding assets, lending money, making payments, and accessing the capital markets on behalf of our clients.
Diversity is a key business imperative and a source of strength at Citi. Being the best for our clients requires a culture of inclusion; an environment of equity, respect, and opportunity for everyone. Teams with varied backgrounds and experiences bring different perspectives to the conversation, enhance decision-making, and improve overall business performance. Citi has made it a priority to foster a culture where the best people want to work, where individuals are promoted based on merit, where we value and demand respect for others, and where opportunities to develop are widely available to all.
Team Overview
Onboarding Master Central (OMC) is the technology platform that orchestrates the client onboarding functions of multiple business domains, empowering clients and operations teams with interactive tools, APIs, and real-time information to automate and streamline onboarding workflows across areas such as Legal, Credit, Know Your Customer (KYC), and Account opening.
Serving as a unified portal, OMC is designed to streamline the onboarding process for new client accounts and facilitate client footprint expansions within Markets and Custody operations. It acts as the central entry point for securely capturing necessary client data and documents, and for initiating critical processes such as account/entity creation, KYC procedures, and Credit and Legal reviews. Despite the inherent complexities in workflow processes and diverse business organizations, OMC simplifies the request flow by ensuring complete task accountability, robust audit controls, and accurate Service Level Agreement (SLA) capturing, leading to improved expense reduction through enhanced Straight-Through Processing (STP). By leveraging the latest technologies, OMC provides best-in-class client onboarding services, effectively speeding up request and data flow processes across various business and operational functions.
Job Purpose:
We are seeking a talented and passionate individual to join our Full-Stack development team. This role offers a unique opportunity to significantly impact the global client onboarding experience by building the future of our platform. The successful candidate will gain valuable exposure to a large-scale, modern technology platform with global reach, playing a crucial role in shaping how we serve our clients.
Responsibilities:
- Apply strong design principles and adhere to complex architectural standards.
- Develop common, reusable components and services, adhering to Citi’s best practices.
- Design and develop high-performance, low-latency applications within existing Citi frameworks.
- Ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of developed components.
- Adopt an engineering mindset, thoroughly understanding use-cases, estimating volume and compute velocity requirements, and openly discussing implementation challenges and solutions.
- Actively contribute to system design and architectural decisions.
- Evaluate new strategic initiatives through Proof-of-Concepts (POCs) and transition successful concepts into robust, industrial-grade solutions.
- Provide post-release support to business, development, and support teams.
- Develop applications adhering to best practices, including Test-Driven Development (TDD), high unit test coverage, and Continuous Integration (CI).
Qualifications:
Required:
- 5-8 years of hands-on Java development experience, including Spring, real-time messaging, and associated Java frameworks.
- Proven experience developing and maintaining highly scalable, real-time microservices and RESTful APIs.
- Proficiency in ReactJS and core front-end technologies: HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript (ES6+), Redux.
- Experience with real-time messaging middleware (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ, Solace, Tibco).
- Hands-on experience with database technologies, including RDBMS (e.g., Oracle) and NoSQL (e.g., MongoDB).
- Strong fundamentals in software development, data structures, design patterns, Object-Oriented Programming (OOP), architecture, algorithms, and problem-solving.
Nice to Have:
- Experience with in-memory datastore/cache libraries (e.g., Redis, Apache Ignite, Gemfire).
- Exposure to Kotlin.
- Experience with system performance tuning and low-latency Java programming.
- Experience working with multi-threaded applications.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines.
- Test-driven development, including Unit and End-to-End Testing.
Competencies:
- Strong verbal and written communication skills; ability to interface with business users.
- Self-motivated individual with determination to achieve goals.
- Willingness to learn, both technically and professionally.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Good team working skills and ability to thrive in a distributed global team environment.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment; flexible and able to deliver quality results within required timeframes.
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience.
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Job Family:Applications Development------------------------------------------------------
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Primary Location Full Time Salary Range:$94,300.00 - $141,500.00------------------------------------------------------
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Other Relevant Skills For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.------------------------------------------------------
Automated Processing and AIWe use automated processing, including artificial intelligence, for our legitimate business interests (or our reasonable and appropriate business purposes) to identify and align the candidate's skills and abilities with a specific job opening. Additionally, if you so choose, or consent, we can match your skills and abilities to other suitable roles at Citi.
Importantly, all our hiring processes and decisions, including determining your suitability for a role, are conducted, checked, and decided by individuals. Our automated processing and AI do not involve relying on automatic or autonomous decision-making. Please refer to any Jurisdictional Considerations, with specific provisions for your country (where relevant) for further details.
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This job opening is for an existing job vacancy.
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Citi is an equal opportunity employer, and qualified candidates will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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Skills Required
- 5-8 years of hands-on Java development experience
- Proven experience developing scalable microservices and RESTful APIs
- Proficiency in ReactJS and front-end technologies
- Experience with real-time messaging middleware
- Hands-on experience with RDBMS and NoSQL technologies
- Strong fundamentals in software development and programming principles
Citi Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Citi and has not been reviewed or approved by Citi.
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Healthcare Strength — Benefits coverage is positioned as comprehensive, including health, dental, and vision insurance plus on-site clinics, prescription drug support, and disability coverage. Family-building support such as fertility assistance is described as a notable differentiator within the overall package.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits are framed as strong, highlighted by a 401(k) with matching and additional plan options like a Roth 401(k). Financial support is reinforced through discounts and broader financial guidance resources tied to the benefits ecosystem.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing support extends beyond insurance through programs like an Employee Assistance Program, counseling/legal resources, and gym or wellness reimbursement. These offerings increase the perceived total rewards value even when cash compensation sentiment varies by role.
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What We Do
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 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.
