About this role
This role is for an experienced developer who is passionate about hands-on implementation and collaboration. You will be a core member of the team, delivering high-quality, scalable solutions to meet the needs of our OTC Clearing business.
Why Join Our Team?
Drive Global Impact: Be part of a team working on the #1 OTC Clearing platform in the world, a mission-critical system at the heart of global finance.
Solve Complex Challenges: Design and build a scalable, resilient, and cloud-native architecture for a complex workflow and case management system.
Work with a Talented Team: Collaborate with a skilled team of developers, product owners, and architects, fostering a culture of engineering excellence and innovation.
Work with Modern Technology: Utilize a modern tech stack, including Java, Kubernetes, Docker, and Kafka, to build cutting-edge financial technology solutions.
Key Responsibilities
- Software Development: Design, develop, test, and deploy high-quality, scalable, and maintainable code.
- Quality Advocacy: Promote best practices for engineering excellence in coding, testing, build, deployment, and the maintenance of high-quality software.
- Solution Implementation: Act as an active contributor to design and a hands-on implementer of code.
- Agile Mindset: Actively participate in scrum activities such as sprint planning and refinement, offering technical insights for backlog items.
- Technical Excellence: Deliver robust and efficient technical solutions, adhering to best-in-class engineering principles and practices.
- Collaboration: Partner with the Scrum Master, Product Owner, QA, Architects and other global team members to successfully deliver technical solutions and reusable components.
- Stakeholder Management: Work with Business, Operations, and Production Support stakeholders to understand business needs and deliver effective solutions.
- Learning Mindset: Keep up with the latest development practices in the industry and Citi with an eye to implement them in our team such as – Gen AI, DORA metrics, etc.
Required Skills, Experience, and Competencies
Professional Experience
- 10+ years of hands-on software development experience.
- Proven experience working in the financial services sector.
- Demonstrated experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment.
Technical Expertise
- Expert-level skills in Java development.
- Expert experience designing and developing robust, scalable, and resilient enterprise-level applications.
- Strong experience with cloud-native technologies such as Kubernetes and Docker .
- Experience with event-driven architecture leveraging Apache Kafka .
- Experience designing and developing databases on an RDBMS platform.
- Proficiency in API development and application security best practices (e.g., OAuth, TLS, PKI).
- Familiarity with DevOps best practices and CI/CD pipelines.
Leadership & Collaboration Skills
- Strong communication and presentation skills.
- A passion for adopting industry best practices and new technologies with an exploratory mindset.
- Innovative ideas and a can-do attitude.
- Strong problem-solving skills and an ability to manage tight deadlines or unexpected priority changes.
- Willingness to ask questions, challenge the status quo, and seek out answers.
- Ability to work independently, multi-task, take ownership, and drive strategy.
- Impeccable integrity and judgment.
Desirable Skills
- Experience with Distributed Caching technologies (e.g., Redis, Gemfire).
- Direct experience in Capital Markets.
- Experience with modern UI development frameworks (e.g., React, Angular).
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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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## Most Relevant Skills
Please see the requirements listed above.
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## Other Relevant Skills
For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.
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