Citi’s Institutional Clients Group (ICG) is comprised of diverse, talented professionals located in more than 100 countries, jurisdiction and territories globally. Citi’s Investment Banking and Corporate Banking(IBCB) is one of four divisions within ICG and provides comprehensive relationship coverage along with a full suite of products and services. IBCB is a business aligned technology organization focused on providing best-in-class products and services to our global clients while solving our bankers’ biggest pain points. We are a cross-functional, globally distributed team of talented individuals, creating platforms/products that aims to deliver innovative solutions to bankers and clients by applying latest engineering standards, agile operating model, and DevOps practices. Our middleware (MW) tech stack includes Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, and microservices architecture, underpinning our robust and scalable solutions.
Diversity is our strength and Citi proudly embraces a culture of flexible work. Engineering excellence and a hands-on background in modern software engineering are essential but inclusivity at Citi means your primary responsibility is to the team: supporting a diverse team, collaborating to further develop as engineers doing satisfying and valuable work, and enjoying doing it. You will be expected to positively influence our culture and collaborate with the team on strategy and technical delivery.
This role is for a strong engineer with a deep understanding of our middleware technologies and a strong bias towards building robust, scalable, and intuitive solutions.

Responsibilities

• This is a hands-on technical role, building applications for our bankers. You will demonstrate sound engineering principles across the SDLC (software development lifecycle) and have a good understanding of modern CI/CD toolsets.
• Advocate and advance modern software development practices, including privacy and security first principles. Incorporate DevSecOps and SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) best practices, helping engineering teams navigate complex security and risk requirements and architect innovative solutions that are secure, resilient, and scalable.
• Ensure that your team delivers great solutions that users love by maintaining a culture of quality and engineering excellence.
• Contribute to continual improvement by suggesting improvements to software architecture, software development process and new technologies etc.
• Communicating with both the client and project teams – clarifying client’s needs, presenting technical ideas, and explaining progress on development efforts.
• Exploring existing applications, determining areas of complexity and potential risks to successful implementation

Who you are

• You are a senior Backend engineer with a passion for building modern web applications. You strive to build solutions that are valued by developers and have an experience-based understanding of what that means.
• You have solid experience in an agile development environment
• You have an in-depth knowledge of JavaScript and its idiosyncrasies and a clear understanding of functional programming paradigms
• You have expertise in middleware technologies like Java, Spring Boot, GraphQL, NOSQL DBs and Kafka.
• Extensive experience in testing User Interfaces
• You love working together on scalable systems, embracing new technologies, and pushing the boundaries of “the art of the possible”.
• You own success – taking responsibility for the successful delivery of the solutions. Mentoring other developer on their implementation while needed, and organize review activities like design review, code review and technical document review etc. to make sure the success deliverable.
• Ensure that your team delivers great solutions that users love by maintaining a culture of quality and engineering excellence.
• Has the ability to operate with a limited level of direct supervision.

Experience:

• Minimum 8+ years of relevant experience in Backend Development.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience

Why Citi?
Over 200 years in business with a wonderful team of creative, visionary, and entrepreneurial thinkers.
Tremendous opportunities to advance, open to everyone across all levels. Learn and grow simultaneously!
We offer a unique journey of personal and professional development, accomplishment, and satisfaction.
We value intelligence and a global mindset. There is a strong culture of empowerment here we embrace diversity.
We do our best to be flexible and may differ depending on the business or area.
Citi offers a robust training program. We continually re-evaluate our training model to ensure that we are always offering the most relevant and best in class training.
At Citi, we value internal mobility. We want you to build a long-term career with us, so you can expect opportunities to move around the organization.
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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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• This is a hands-on technical role, building applications for our bankers. You will demonstrate sound engineering principles across the SDLC (software development lifecycle) and have a good understanding of modern CI/CD toolsets.
• Advocate and advance modern software development practices, including privacy and security first principles. Incorporate DevSecOps and SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) best practices, helping engineering teams navigate complex security and risk requirements and architect innovative solutions that are secure, resilient, and scalable.
• Ensure that your team delivers great solutions that users love by maintaining a culture of quality and engineering excellence.
• Contribute to continual improvement by suggesting improvements to software architecture, software development process and new technologies etc.
• Communicating with both the client and project teams – clarifying client’s needs, presenting technical ideas, and explaining progress on development efforts.
• Exploring existing applications, determining areas of complexity and potential risks to successful implementatio