We are looking for experienced and proficient full-stack software engineers who are passionate about solving business problems through innovation and engineering practices. This role will be responsible for writing code, pairing with other developers as appropriate, decomposing acceptance criteria to understand team backlog deliverables, complexities, and risk, while working as a strong contributor on an agile team. From a technical standpoint, the Software Engineer has full-stack coding and implementation responsibilities and adheres to best practice principles, including modern cloud-based software development, agile and scrum, code quality, and tool usage. The Software Engineer works to understand and influence software architecture, while contributing to Citi’s and GFT’s technical user base.
Responsibilities:
- Apply depth of knowledge and expertise to all aspects of the software development lifecycle, as well as partner continuously with stakeholders on a regular basis.
- Develop and engineer solutions within an Agile software delivery team, working to collaboratively deliver sprint goals, write code, and participate in the broader Citi technical community and team-level Agile and Scrum processes.
- Contribute to the design, documentation, and development of world-class enterprise applications leveraging the latest technologies and software design patterns.
- Leverage technical knowledge of concepts and procedures within own area and basic knowledge of other areas to resolve issues, as necessary.
- Follow and contribute to defining technical and team standards.
- Collaborate technical leadership to achieve established goals, in line with our broader technical strategy.
- Acts as SME to senior stakeholders and /or other team members.
- Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.
Recommended Qualifications:
- 8+ years of experience as a Software Engineer/Developer using Java.
- Multiple years of experience with software engineering best practices (unit testing, automation, design patterns, peer review, etc.)
- Clear understanding of Data Structures and Object Oriented Principles using Java
- Multiple years of experience with Cloud-native development and Container Orchestration tools (Serverless, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, etc.).
- Multiple years of experience on Service Oriented and Micro Services architectures, including REST and GraphQL implementations
- Multiple years of experience with frameworks like Spring Boot.
- Exposure to front-end technologies (React, Angular, Javascript, Typescript)
- Exposure to Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)pipelines, either on-premise or public cloud (i.e., Tekton, Harness, CircleCI, Cloudbees Jenkins, etc.)
- Multiple years of experience with agile and iterative software delivery(SCRUM, Kanban)
- Exposure to Database technologies (RDBMS, NoSQL, Oracle, MySQL, Mongo)·
- Exposure to event-driven design and architecture (i.e., Kafka, Spark Flink ,RabbitMQ, etc.)
- Exposure to architecture experience in building horizontally scalable, highly available, highly resilient, and low latency applications
- Exposure to Cloud infrastructure both on-premise and public cloud (i.e.,OpenShift, AWS, etc.)
- Exposure to Security, Observability, and Monitoring tools (i.e., Grafana Prometheus, Splunk, ELK, CloudWatch, etc.)
- Experience mentoring and providing technical leadership for teams of 5 or more developers
- Exposure to Job Schedulers (i.e. Autosys, Cloudwatch, etc)
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience
This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.
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Skills Required
- 8+ years of experience as a Software Engineer or Developer using Java
- Multiple years of experience with software engineering best practices, including unit testing, automation, design patterns, and peer review
- Strong understanding of data structures and object-oriented principles using Java
- Multiple years of experience with cloud-native development and container orchestration tools such as Serverless, Docker, Kubernetes, or OpenShift
- Multiple years of experience with service-oriented and microservices architectures, including REST and GraphQL implementations
- Multiple years of experience with frameworks such as Spring Boot
- Exposure to front-end technologies including React, Angular, JavaScript, or TypeScript
- Exposure to continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines, including Tekton, Harness, CircleCI, or Jenkins
- Multiple years of experience with Agile and iterative software delivery, including Scrum or Kanban
- Exposure to database technologies including RDBMS, NoSQL, Oracle, MySQL, or MongoDB
- Exposure to event-driven design and architecture using Kafka, Spark, Flink, or RabbitMQ
- Experience building horizontally scalable, highly available, highly resilient, and low-latency applications
- Exposure to cloud infrastructure in on-premises or public cloud environments, including OpenShift or AWS
- Exposure to security, observability, and monitoring tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, ELK, or CloudWatch
- Experience mentoring and providing technical leadership for teams of five or more developers
- Exposure to job schedulers such as Autosys or CloudWatch
- Bachelor's degree, university degree, or equivalent experience
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as comprehensive and reliable, with multiple medical, dental, vision, prescription, and mental-health options. Wellness programs, counseling, and preventive resources further reinforce health support.
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Retirement Support — Retirement planning is viewed as a standout, with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 6% and, in some cases, an additional fixed contribution. These elements are positioned as competitive features of the total rewards package.
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Parental & Family Support — Family-support programs include parental leave, childcare and eldercare resources, backup-care assistance, and educational support. Part-time employees in some areas also access standard health and wellness benefits.
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