Apps Development Lead Engineer, Citi

Citi

Location:
United States, Jersey City

Category:
IT - Software Development

Contract Type:
Employment contract

Salary:

142320.00 - 213480.00 USD / Year

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Job Description:

The Senior Software Development Engineer will be responsible for designing, developing and maintaining our application that exposes a suite of banking solutions and capabilities to FinTechs globally. This role requires a strong understanding of software development principles, proficiency in programming languages, and the ability to work collaboratively in a team environment. The ideal candidate should be able to translate business requirements into technical solutions and have a passion for continuous learning and improvement

Job Responsibility:

Senior Lead Engineer who can drive technology solutions across BaaS platform that runs globally
Design and implement the technical foundation for BaaS and Express offerings, ensuring scalability, security, and seamless integration with partner ecosystems
Define and implement the technical architecture and infrastructure strategy for the tech platform, ensuring it meets and exceeds our stringent 99.99% uptime, sub second SLAs and 1000+ TPS requirements
Establish the technical vision and roadmap for global BaaS optimizing for high throughput, low latency, and 24/7 availability across multiple geographies and countries
Demonstrate excellence in code quality, testability, code reviews and over all clean coding principles
Design, implement and maintain the Java-based application that would be storing high-volume data and would require low-latency
Solve complex engineering problems and challenges while building a globally scalable and highly resilient application
Support continuous improvement, investigating alternatives and technologies, and presenting for architectural review
Effectively manage the software project, from start to finish. This role includes determining the project's scope and objectives and summarizing them into actionable project schedules that correspond to the available skillset of the team members
Must also be able to effectively communicate the project status at various points of the development process to stakeholders and upper management
Need to be good team player to collaborate technical design idea across different geographies

Requirements:

A minimum of 10+ years of strong experience in implementing end to end server side technical solutions in distributed systems
Extensive hands on experience in designing, implementing, delivering large scale JAVA Server applications
Efficient in JAVA programming language that includes high performance, low latency, efficient memory management
Strong software system designing skills for designing robust and efficient solutions in the payments platform
In-depth understanding of Java Spring frame work
Expert in Oracle Database, SQL queries, performance tuning
Well versed in various development methodologies, and frameworks, as well as a wide variety of cloud services
Expert in using Kafka middleware and performance tuning
Expert in OpenShift ECS clusters
Expert in Junit testing and writing testable code. Expert in making legacy code testable. Able to drive Left shift testing paradigm
Well versed with SonarQube, Bit Bucket and Git
Well versed with JIRA Framework and Sprint management concepts
Strong Technical and Non-Technical communication skills to be able to communicate within team as well as externally with stakeholders

What we offer:

medical, dental & vision coverage
401(k)
life, accident, and disability insurance
wellness programs
paid time off packages, including planned time off (vacation), unplanned time off (sick leave), and paid holidays

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
August 07, 2025

Expiration:
August 13, 2025

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Hybrid work

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Apps Development Lead Engineer

Citi

Location:United States, Jersey City

Category:IT - Software Development

Contract Type:Employment contract