Sr Java Developer - Spring Kafka - Assistant Vice president

We are looking for a talented and passionate individual to join our Java Server development team and continue to evolve our next-generation trading application.

• Understanding of good design principles and ability to adhere to complex design
• Development of common, reusable components and services utilizing Citi’s best practices
• Responsible for creating high performance, low latency applications leveraging existing Citi framework
• Ensuring strong reliability, scalability and performance of our components
• Apply an engineering mind-set to development work: understand use-cases in details, develop metrics to build good estimates of volume and compute velocity requirements, understand and discuss openly any implementation limitations or workaround
• Contribute actively to system design decisions
• Evaluate and build POCs for new strategic initiatives and work to convert to industrial level solutions
• Provide post release assistance to business, development and support groups
• Develop application as per best practice and remain compliant with prescribed best practices (TDD, maintain high unit test coverage, CI…)
• Assisting in third line support during core trading hours

• 8+ years of strong hands-on development experience using Java including expertise with Spring or another dependency injection framework
• 5+ years’ experience in developing and maintaining highly scalable, real-time, low latency, high-volume, scalable microservices
• Experience with real-time messaging middleware (Kafka, RabbitMQ, Solace, Tibco, …)
• Experience working with multi-threaded applications
• Strong software development fundamentals, data structures, design patterns, Object-Oriented programming, architecture, algorithms, and problem-solving skills
• Application deployment and debugging of applications on UNIX/LINUX

• 401k matching
• Health insurance
• Flight privileges

Citi, the leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions.