Senior Java Fullstack Developer - Vice President

Overview

Finance Technology enables Citi to achieve its day-to-day and long-term growth goals, facilitating the execution of Citi’s Strategy by providing services, technical solutions, and infrastructure across the bank. These solutions enable Citi to comply with regulatory mandates and empower our businesses to achieve their goals, both current and long-term. In Finance Technology, we’re pushing the limits of technology. Our products and initiatives adhere to Citi’s strategic architecture principles and support the end-to-end integration of multiple global functions within the bank including Finance, Risk, and Controllers. As a senior technical leader, you will play a pivotal role in driving innovation and technical strategy within our dynamic environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead the establishment and evolution of technology standards across your functional area, ensuring development, understanding, and adherence across global teams.
• Define strategic technical goals within your functional area, aligning them with broader Operations & Technology objectives.
• Drive and lead significant technical initiatives and projects, contributing to the IT Project Leadership function to harmonize with overall business/technology objectives.
• Mentor and guide a team of engineers, fostering an environment where subject matter experts can work efficiently, deliver effectively, and grow their technical capabilities.
• Drive the technical strategy and execution of the IT roadmap for assigned technology areas, translating business requirements into scalable and resilient technical solutions.
• Exhibit expert-level understanding of software engineering principles and patterns, providing technical thought leadership and guidance to the team.
• Responsible for coaching team members, conducting performance management, monitoring the quantity and quality of work, and addressing development needs for assigned personnel.
• Make evaluative judgments and complex architectural decisions based on in-depth information analysis in complicated or unique situations, utilizing multiple sources of information.
• Negotiate with senior leaders (across functions) and communicate and negotiate with external parties on technical matters.
• Appropriately assess risk when business and technical 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, as well as effectively supervise the activity of others and create accountability with those who fail to maintain these standards.

Skillsets and Experience

• 9+ years of strong, hands-on experience in full-stack development, with significant expertise in React, TypeScript, Node.js, and Java/JVM-based languages (e.g., Java, Kotlin) for building robust microservices architectures.
• Expert-level experience in designing, building, and evolving scalable UI architectures using React, adhering to best practices, performance optimization, and accessibility standards.
• Deep expertise in designing, developing, and managing high-performance, secure, and scalable API ecosystems (RESTful, GraphQL).
• Demonstrated hands-on working experience with React, JavaScript, Java / Spring / Spring Cloud / Spring Data JPA / Spring Boot Microservices.
• Advanced troubleshooting and performance tuning expertise across the full stack, using debuggers, logs, and monitoring tools.
• Demonstrated expertise in implementing and promoting advanced testing strategies (TDD, BDD) and utilizing comprehensive testing frameworks (Jest, Cypress, JUnit, Mockito).
• Proven experience with public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), including cloud-native design patterns, serverless architectures, and infrastructure as code (IaC).
• Strong experience with containerization technologies such as OpenShift, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Deep understanding and practical experience with CI/CD pipelines and modern build/deployment tools (e.g., Jenkins, Tekton, Harness, ArgoCD, NPM, Maven, Gradle).
• Expert proficiency in SQL Databases (e.g., Oracle, PostgreSQL) and No-SQL databases (e.g., MongoDB), including complex query optimization and database design.

Nice to Have

• Strong experience with observability and monitoring tech stack (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack).
• Understanding of Generative AI based productivity tools like Microsoft Co-Pilot, Devin, Claude etc.
• Understanding of Middleware technologies like Tibco RV, EMS, Solace, Kafka etc.
• Experience with Python and its applications, especially in data engineering or AI/ML contexts.

Qualifications

• 11+ years of progressive experience in software engineering, with a significant portion in a lead or architect role.
• Proven track record of designing, architecting, and building robust, scalable, and maintainable applications within the Capital Markets Technology industry.
• Ability to build, deploy, and test application components in a development environment during the implementation phase, working across all layers of the application stack.
• Work proactively & independently to address project requirements, and articulate issues/challenges with enough lead time to address project delivery risks.
• Lead code reviews, test case reviews, and ensure code developed meets the highest quality standards and requirements.
• Influence and negotiate with senior technical leaders from partner teams (software engineers, DevOps, and production support staff) to deliver robust software solutions and drive strategic initiatives.
• Experience working in Financial Services or a large, complex, and/or global environment.
• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication, capable of presenting complex technical information to diverse audiences.
• Comprehensive knowledge of design metrics, analytics tools, benchmarking activities, and related reporting to identify best practices.
• Demonstrated advanced analytic/diagnostic skills for complex technical problems.
• Ability to work effectively in a matrix environment and partner with virtual teams across different geographies.
• Ability to work independently, prioritize, and take ownership of various parts of a project or initiative, demonstrating strong self-direction.
• Ability to work under pressure and manage to tight deadlines or unexpected changes in expectations or requirements.
• Proven track record of driving operational process changes and improvements.
• Demonstrated strong leadership, mentoring, and project management skills.

Educational Qualification

• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Master’s degree preferred.