Senior Backend Application Development Technical Lead Analyst Vice President

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 build sophisticated solutions that target 100% digitalization and automation of the applications.

Overview
Responsibilities:
Build and support banking applications. As an application developer, the candidate is expected to have good analytical thinking, problem solving, strong programming/technical fundamentals and an eagerness to learn new technologies/concepts. The candidate must be open to accept challenges and suggestions.

Qualifications

6+ years Backend Application development experience

5+ years hands‑on core Java, functional programming and Spring Boot microservices, distributed systems, 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 No

SQL databases such as Mongo

DB for scalable, high availability applications.

3+ years experience in data modeling and experience with relational and No

SQL databases, Oracle and Mongo

DB.

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 the 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 handling 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/Bit Bucket.

Good communication skills, both written and verbal.

Preferred Skills

Unix shell scripting.

Knowledge of Elastic Search and Graph

QL.

Experience with building highly performant and scalable applications.

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.

Job Family Group:
Technology

Job Family:
Applications Development

Time Type:
Full time

Primary Location Full Time Salary Range: $ - $

Most Relevant

Skills:

Please see the requirements listed above.

Other Relevant

Skills:

Back‑End Development, Data Modeling, Distributed Systems, Java, Kubernetes, Microservice Framework, Mongo

DB, Oracle, Spring Boot.

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