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Software Engineering lead - Vice President

India, Pune · Job Posted March 03, 2026
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The team lead plays a meaningful role in crafting and maintaining the strategic partnership between business needs and technology delivery within the construct of an Agile team. The role is to own an Agile team’s efforts to plan, design, develop, and launch efficient systems and solutions in support of our core organizational functions. In addition to managing members of an agile team, there is also an expectation to contribute to the codebase and deliver solutions against the sprint-level commitments.

Job Responsibility

  • Code contributing leader of an Agile team, working to deliver sprint goals, as well as conduct personnel duties for team (e.g., performance evaluations, hiring, promotions and disciplinary actions)
  • Design, document, and develop world-class enterprise applications leveraging the latest technologies and design patterns
  • Provide strategic influence and exercise control over team resources, budget management and planning, while monitoring end results
  • Utilize in-depth knowledge of concepts and procedures within your own area and basic knowledge of other areas to resolve issues
  • Ensure essential procedures are followed and contribute to defining standards
  • Integrate in-depth knowledge of applications development with overall technology function to achieve established goals
  • Provide evaluative judgement based on analysis of facts in complicated, unique, and dynamic situations including drawing from internal and external sources
  • Influence and negotiate with senior leaders across functions, as well as communicate with external parties, as necessary
  • Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency, as well as effectively supervise the activity of others and create accountability with those who fail to maintain these standards

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience as a Software Engineer/Developer using Java
  • Experience mentoring and providing technical leadership for teams of 5 or more developers
  • Multiple years of experience with software engineering best practices (unit testing, automation, design patterns, peer review, etc.)
  • Clear understanding of Data Structures and Object Oriented Principles using Java
  • Multiple years of experience architecting and building horizontally scalable, highly available, highly resilient, and low latency applications
  • Multiple years of experience with Cloud-native development and Container Orchestration tools (Serverless, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, etc.)
  • Inclination and knowledge of latest AI tools (Copilot, Cursor, Devin etc.) and their usage in Enterprise Software development
  • Knowledge of Gen AI Platforms such as vertex.ai, openai etc.
  • Multiple years of experience on Service Oriented and MicroServices architectures, including REST and GraphQL implementations
  • Multiple years of experience with frameworks like Spring Boot, Spring Batch, REST, Microservices architecture
  • Exposure to Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, either on-premise or public cloud (i.e., Tekton, Harness, CircleCI, Cloudbees Jenkins, etc.)
  • Multiple years of experience with agile and iterative software delivery
  • BE/B'Tech degree or equivalent work experience

Nice to have

  • Exposure to Cloud infrastructure both on-premise and public cloud (i.e., OpenShift, AWS, etc.)
  • Exposure to event-driven design and architecture (i.e., Kafka, Spark Flink, etc.)
  • Exposure to API Management tools
  • Exposure to database concepts (RDBMS, NoSQL) and web-based technologies (Angular/React) is a plus
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