Java Engineering Lead

EQUITIES MIDDLE OFFICE TECHNOLOGY

The Equities Middle Office Technology team serves the global suite of products providing a full range of innovative and comprehensive set of services. Our businesses also offer industry-leading advanced technology, a strong worldwide presence, and a powerful global franchise. Our technology operates in real-time environments, capturing and managing market, transaction, and accounting data, numbering in the millions of processed events per day. Our solutions cover all Cash Equity products and geographies in which Citi does business. Our responsibilities support Middle Office operations covering all aspects of post-execution processing such as order & allocation workflows, trade processing, allocation matching, trade confirmations, commission management and billing.

The Role 

The Engineering Lead is a senior level technology HANDS-ON role, we are looking for candidates who are passionate about solving engineering problems through innovation and engineering best practices. The team lead plays a meaningful role in crafting and maintaining the strategic partnership between Citi’s various engineering teams and technology delivery within the construct of an Agile team. The role is to own an Agile team’s efforts to plan, design, develop, and launch efficient systems and solutions in support of our core organizational functions. In addition to managing members of an agile team, the role is ‘hands-on’ requiring regular contributions to the codebase and deliver solutions against the sprint-level commitments. 

Who You will Work With 

As part of a modernized financial technology company, our Engineers are hyper-focused on disrupting the market through bringing to life the art of the possible for our business. We have passion for building strategies, designing solutions, and creating innovative products to help our developers to solve most complex and interesting problems. To accomplish this, we surround our technologists with interesting challenges, emerging technologies and with an immersive, innovative culture. The breadth in capabilities assures that Citi can support teams with an enterprise level forward-thinking vision. Put simply, we collaboratively design, build, and implement business strategies and solutions to help solve complex problems to drive business value. 

Responsibilities

• Identify common engineering needs across multiple streams of Middle-office and develop a unified solution.
• Closely monitor and evaluate the Citi’s Cloud, GenAI, DevOps, and SecOps strategies, and design a comprehensive adoption plan that aligns these initiatives with the specific needs of MO applications.
• Generate monthly reports outlining the progress of various adoptions and the effectiveness of the practices.
• Conduct regular reviews of application performance and security issues with teams, addressing them swiftly and effectively to prevent escalation and ensure optimal system functionality.
• Identify and manage technical debt, ensuring the engineering team balances the need for new features with maintaining and improving existing systems.
• Create, contribute, and help manage a technology roadmap that guides the development and integration of new technologies, ensuring the firm stays ahead of industry trends and maintains competitive advantages.
• Drive innovation by identifying and implementing new technologies and practices that enhance efficiency, reduce costs, or provide new capabilities.
• Lead and mentor engineering teams, promoting a culture of continuous improvement, collaboration, and technical excellence.
• Contribute to and participate in global Citi technology forums and Hackathons.
• Serve as a liaison between the engineering team and other stakeholders, including senior management, to ensure technical issues and solutions are clearly communicated and understood.
• Collect and act on stakeholder feedback to continuously improve technology solutions and processes.
• Develop strategies for managing legacy systems, including modernization, integration, or replacement, to prevent them from hindering the firm's operations or innovation.
• Gather and act on feedback from stakeholders to continuously improve technology solutions and processes.

Required Qualifications  

• 10+ years of experience as a Software Engineer/ Developer and currently hand-on
• 8+ years of experience in Java 11,17,21 version

• Experience in managing polyglot application environment (Java, Python, Go etc)
• 5+ years’ experience of Microservices frameworks using Java, Spring Boot, Chronicle Stack
• 8+ years of experience with software engineering best practices (unit testing, automation, design patterns, peer review, etc.).  
• Experience mentoring and managing junior engineers. 
• Experience in Test-Driven Development and Behavior-Driven Development
• Proficient Data Structures, Object-Oriented Principles, JVM memory model
• Proficient in scripting languages such as Shell, Groovy, JavaScript
• 8+ years of architecture experience in building horizontally scalable, highly available, highly resilient, and low latency applications  
• 5+ years' experience with Cloud-native development and Container Orchestration tools (Serverless, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, etc.) 
• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines, either on-premises or public cloud (i.e., Tekton, Harness, Jenkins, etc.) 

Core Competencies

• Exposure to managing Cloud infrastructure both on-premise and public cloud (i.e., OpenShift, AWS, etc.).  
• Exposure to Cloud-native development and Container Orchestration tools (Serverless, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, etc.).  
• Exposure to API Management tools.  
• Experience in Socket programming using Java/ RSocket
• Experience in Asynchronous system designing and development using Java 21 and Reactive programming.
• Exposure to event-driven design and architecture (i.e., Kafka, AMPS, etc.).  
• Experience in technical leadership re-engineering monolithic applications into Microservices.  
• Exposure to Security, Observability, and Monitoring (i.e., Grafana Prometheus, Tempo, Splunk, ELK, etc.).  
• Exposure to Service Oriented and Microservices architectures, including REST and GraphQL implementations.   
• Experience with database concepts and web-based technologies is a plus. 

Preferred Skills

• UX development using ReactJS, NodeJS
• Understanding of low latency programming methodologies
• Understanding of AI/LLM models

Education

• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience
• Master’s degree a plus.

------------------------------------------------------

Job Family Group:

------------------------------------------------------

Job Family:

------------------------------------------------------

Time Type:

------------------------------------------------------

Citi is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

Citigroup Inc. and its subsidiaries ("Citi”) invite all qualified interested applicants to apply for career opportunities. If you are a person with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation to use our search tools and/or apply for a career opportunity review Accessibility at Citi.

View the "EEO is the Law" poster. View the EEO is the Law Supplement.

View the EEO Policy Statement.

View the Pay Transparency Posting