Java Full Stack Lead Application Developer – Assistant Vice President

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Job Overview

Responsibilities:

• Partner with multiple teams to ensure appropriate integration of functions to meet goals as well as identify and define necessary system enhancements to deploy new products and process improvements
• Design and develop highly scalable lending applications to support enterprise-grade workloads.
• Create robust, scalable software solutions that meet performance, security, and availability standards.
• Lead the end-to-end design and hands on development of scalable, cloud-ready applications.
• Resolve variety of high impact problems/projects through in-depth evaluation of complex business processes, system processes, and industry standards.
• Provide expertise in area and advanced knowledge of applications programming and ensure application design adheres to the overall architecture blueprint.
• Utilize advanced knowledge of system flow and develop standards for coding, testing, debugging, and implementation.
• Develop comprehensive knowledge of how areas of business, such as architecture and infrastructure, integrate to accomplish business goals.
• Provide in-depth analysis with interpretive thinking to define issues and develop innovative solutions.
• Serve as advisor or coach to mid-level developers and analysts, allocating work 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.

Recommended Qualifications:

• 8-10 years of relevant experience in Apps Development or systems analysis role
• Extensive experience system analysis and in programming of software applications
• Experience in managing and implementing successful projects
• Subject Matter Expert (SME) in at least one area of Applications Development for Banking Payments and Deposits
• Ability to adjust priorities quickly as circumstances dictate
• Demonstrated leadership and project management skills
• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication
• Strong hands‑on experience with Java, Spring, Spring Boot, JPA/Hibernate
• Expertise in building microservices, REST APIs, Swagger/OpenAPI, and SOAP integrations
• Experience designing & implementing event‑driven systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ)
• Solid understanding of RDBMS (SQL, PL/SQL) + familiarity with NoSQL databases
• Experience with caching (Redis)
• Strong knowledge of OAuth2, token‑based security, and API security best practices
• Prior experience with WebSphere, JSP/Servlets, EJB, and application modernization (migration to modern Java/Spring microservices)
• Hands-on work experience with advanced AI software engineering tools like Devin.AI /CoPilot or similar autonomous AI software agents

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience
• Master’s degree preferred

This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.

Skills Required:

• Excellent Knowledge of Spring including Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring Web, Spring Data
• Good Knowledge of: Threading, Collections, Exception Handling, JDBC, Java OOD/OOP Concepts, GoF Design Patterns, MoM and SOA Design Patterns, File I/O, and parsing XML and JSON, delimited files and fixed length files, String matching, parsing, building, working with binary data / byte arrays. 
• Good Knowledge of UI/UX Design and Angular JS and Jest for unit testing
• Good knowledge of SQL (DB2/Oracle dialect is preferable)
• Experience working with SOA & Micro-services utilizing REST.
• Experience with design and implementations of cloud-ready applications and deployment pipelines on large-scale container platform clusters is a plus
• Experience working in a Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery environment and familiar with Tekton, Harness, Jenkins, Code Quality, etc.
• Knowledge in industry standard best practices such as Design Patterns, Coding Standards, Coding modularity, Prototypes etc.
• Experience in debugging, tuning and optimizing components
• Understanding of the SDLC lifecycle for Agile methodologies
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Experience developing application in Financial Services industry is preferred
• Kubernetes and Docker 
• Messaging Systems: IBM MQ, Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, Tibco. etc. 
• Tomcat, Jetty, Apache HTTPD 
• Able to work with build/configure/deploy automation tools, Jenkin, Light Speed. etc
• Linux Ecosystem 
• Autosys 
• APIm 
• APM Tools: Dynatrace, AppDynamics, etc. 
• Caching Technologies: Redis, Hazelcast, MemCached. etc

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Job Family Group:

Technology

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Job Family:

Applications Development

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Time Type:

Full time

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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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