Senior Java Developer – Agile

Role Overview:

Are you passionate about engineering, testing, automation and building high-quality software? Can you work across diverse teams to spread your passion and experience to raise the bar for everyone? Do you enjoy working in a collaborative Agile environment and seeing the applications that you build making users happy? If you are excited about hands-on development, then this is the ideal role for you. Prime Brokerage Technology provides solutions that underpin the operations of our clients and traders that provide the foundation of our Prime Finance business. This is an area of great opportunity and is a major growth target for Citi – with technology providing the key to unlock this potential.

Shape your career with Citi in Dublin. By joining Citi, you will become part of a global organisation whose mission is to serve as a trusted partner to our clients by responsibly providing financial services that enable growth and economic progress.

Citi has had a presence in Ireland since 1965, it was one of the first foreign banks to open an office in the country and is the Citibank Europe Plc Headquarters.

What you’ll do

• Take ownership and delivery on components (Java/Kotlin) within the Core Prime Brokerage platform. Hands-on Development.
• Actively contribute to an agile development, applying and improving skills in Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) practices. Implement and maintain developer-led automated testing solutions. Participate in the ongoing refinement of SDLC, agile and DevOps processes.
• Participate in design, planning and estimation discussions within the team.
• Perform detailed analysis of assigned work, breaking work into individual technical tasks.
• Collaborate with business analysts and stakeholders to clarify and refine requirements.
• Create and maintain project and technical documentation
• Assist in identify potential risks or issues within assigned tasks and communicate them to the team lead.
• Assist in production support by working closely with operations and business teams. Participate in support rotations to diagnose and resolve escalated issues. Contribute to documentation and post-mortem reviews. Implement software enhancements to resolve root-causes and improve reliability, performance and scalability.
• Collaborate as part of a global team on deliveries and engage in peer reviews such as code reviews / pull requests. Coach and mentor junior analysts and grads.

What we need from you:

• Java & Test-Driven Development are essential.
• 5-8 years of relevant experience
• Experience in systems analysis and programming of software applications
• Experience in managing and implementing successful projects
• Working knowledge of consulting/project management techniques/methods
• Ability to work under pressure and manage deadlines or unexpected changes in expectations or requirements
• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience

Experience in any number of additional technologies (listed below) is advantageous:

• Kotlin, Java, Kafka Streams
• Cloud Technologies (Kubernetes, Open Shift)
• Messaging Technologies (Kafka, Solace)
• Database / Data Store / Data Query Technologies (SQL Server, Trino, Mongo, S3)
• Observability Technologies (OpenTelemetry, Elastic Stack / ELK, Grafana)

What we can offer you

By joining Citi Dublin, you will not only be part of a business casual workplace with a hybrid working model (up to 2 days working at home per week), but also receive a competitive base salary (which is annually reviewed) and enjoy a whole host of additional benefits that support you (and your family) to be well, live well and save well. Discover more here.

Alongside these benefits Citi is committed to ensuring our workplace is where everyone feels comfortable coming to work as their whole self every day.  We want the best talent around the world to be energised to join us, motivated to stay, and empowered to thrive. 

Sounds like Citi has everything you need? Then apply to discover the true extent of your capabilities.

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