Citi, the leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Our mission is to serve as a trusted partner to our clients by responsibly providing financial services that enable growth and economic progress. We strive to earn and maintain our clients’ and the public’s trust by constantly adhering to the highest ethical standards and making a positive impact on the communities we serve. This job opening will help Citi to build sophisticated solutions that will be targeting 100% digitalization and automation of the applications.

Overview of the Role:

Responsibilities of this role is building and supporting the banking applications. As an application developer, candidate is expected to have good analytical thinking, problem solving, good programming/technical fundamentals and eagerness to learn new technologies/concepts. Candidate must be open to accept challenges and suggestions.

Qualifications required:

- 6+ years Backend Application development experience

- 5+ years hands-on core Java, functional programming and Springboot Microservices Distributed system, Kubernetes, Kafka, Mongo DB development experience  

- 5+ years experience and understanding of secure coding practices, SSL/TLS, OAuth, and JWT token handling in Java-based applications.

- 5+ years experience and expertise in integrating Java with NoSQL databases such as MongoDB for scalable, high availability applications.

-3+ years experience in data modeling and experience with relational and no-SQL database, Oracle and MongoDB.

- Understanding of concurrent and parallel programming, including threads, processes, synchronization, and handling race conditions.

- Knowledge of reactive programming for building asynchronous, event/message-driven systems in microservices based applications that are highly concurrent.

- Proficient in containerizing applications, continuous integration, and continuous delivery in Java ecosystem.

- Knowledge of distributed tracing and API Gateway integration for microservices architecture.

- Proficient in functional programming concepts with Streams API, Lambda Expressions and Optional.

- Understanding of integrating APIs with third party libraries/vendors and handle the security around it.

- Understanding of the principles of distributed systems, including data partitioning, replication, and consistency models.

- Strong grasp of data structures and algorithms, especially those relevant to distributed systems like distributed hash tables and load balancing techniques.

- Understanding of microservices architecture, including service discovery, API gateways, and inter-service communication.

- Exceptional Problem-Solving and Analytical Skills to diagnose and resolve issues in distributed environments.

- Above average skills in monitoring, logging, and debugging distributed systems to ensure reliability and performance.

- Expertise in fundamental concepts such as consistency, availability, partition tolerance, fault tolerance, and scalability.

- Familiarity with container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes), and distributed messaging systems (e.g., Kafka).

- Experience using Git/BitBucket.
- Good communication skills, both written and verbal.

Preferred skills:

- Unix shell scripting.
- Knowledge of ElasticSearch, and GraphQL.
- Experience with building apps which are highly performant and scalable will be great.
- Knowledge of Generating Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and Large Language Models (LLMs).

This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required

 

Education:

Bachelor’s degree/University degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology or equivalent work 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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Job Family Group:

Technology

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Job Family:

Applications Development

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Time Type:

Full time

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Primary Location Full Time Salary Range:

$120,800.00 - $170,800.00

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Most Relevant Skills

Please see the requirements listed above.

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Other Relevant Skills

Back-End Development, Data Modeling, Distributed Systems, Java, Kubernetes, Microservice Framework, MongoDB, Oracle, Spring Boot.

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Automated Processing and AI

We 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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