Senior Java Developer (AVP)

Working at Citi is far more than just a job. A career with us means joining a team of approximately 219,000 dedicated people from around the globe. At Citi, you’ll have the opportunity to grow your career, give back to your community and make a real impact.

Discover your future at Citi

Working at Citi is far more than just a job. A career with us means joining a team of more than 230,000 dedicated people from around the globe. At Citi, you’ll have the opportunity to grow your career, give back to your community and make a real impact.

Job Overview

Engineer the future of global finance. At Citi, our Tech team doesn’t just support finance – we are helping to redefine it. Every day, $5 trillion crosses through our network. We do business in 180+ countries operating at a scale few can match. From deploying advanced AI to helping shape global markets, we build systems that matter. Look to join a team where your work helps influence economies, your ideas can drive innovation and outcomes, and your growth is backed by mentorship, continuous learning and flexibility with potential hybrid work opportunities. Help solve real-world challenges that touch millions and get the opportunity to build the future of finance with Citi Tech.

Project description:

Unity is the global authority for business transactions across Citi, covering transactions across all asset classes in capital markets, commercial payments, account management and more. At its core Unity provides a unique reference that keeps with a transaction for its entire lifetime thereby allowing full traceability from front office to back office providing great business benefit.

This role is for a developer position responsible for accomplishing results through hands on development/bug fixes of our Java application. The overall objective of this role is to drive applications development through programming activities.

Responsibilities

Platform Support & Enhancement: Build and maintain common solutions for trading platform monitoring, trade reconciliation, application recovery, and other essential support functions.

Core Development : Participate in design sessions with the development team, both employees and vendors located across multiple locations

Agile SDLC pipeline: Evaluate and adopt new development tools, libraries, and approaches to improve delivery quality by aligning with latest industry trends

Continuous Improvement : Analyze existing software systems and propose solutions to improve overall design, architecture, and efficiency

Cross functional Collaboration: Communicate with stakeholders to help shape requirements and de sign decisions

Liasing with production support teams in troubleshooting and debugging applications

Ensure that best practices and standards are followed as part of the application development life cycle.

Provide user/support documentation

Ensure applications meet performance and scalability requirements

Comfortable in using AI based coding assistants and AI powered SDLC processes

Mandatory Skills

Strong commercial experience as a Java developer. This will be tested during interview stage

Experience in REST API and authentication mechanisms (OAuth/Basic Authentication)

Messaging Systems experience in any of the following middleware technologies (Kafka preferrable, Nats, Solace, TiBCo, RabbitMQ etc.)

Experience working with SQL and databases such as Oracle, SQL Server, Hadoop etc.

Experience with Java Multithreading/Concurrency, Web Services (SOAP/REST), DB2 Database, JMS, MQ, NDM, SFTP

Acquainted with industry best practices and standards, software development tools and techniques

Experience in developing distributed systems

Experience in the use of Containers (Docker, Kubernetes)

Desirable skills

Experience in Low Latency Software Development in a microservices environment high performance architectures and high throughput applications is a plus

Experience in C++ or C# is beneficial

Experience in SBE

Experience with JNI is a plus

Ability to work with distributed teams across multiple time zones

Education:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology or similar discipline

What we’ll provide you

By joining Citi, you will not only be part of a business casual workplace with a hybrid working model (up to 2 days working at home per week), but also receive a competitive base salary (which is annually reviewed), and enjoy a whole host of additional benefits such as:

27 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)

A discretional annual performance related bonus

Private Medical Care & Life Insurance

Employee Assistance Program

Pension Plan

Paid Parental Leave

Special discounts for employees, family, and friends

Access to an array of learning and development resources

Visit our Global Benefits page to learn more.

Alongside these benefits Citi is committed to ensuring our workplace is where everyone feels comfortable coming to work as their whole self, every day. We want the best talent around the world to be energized to join us, motivated to stay and empowered to thrive.

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