Apps Development Lead Engineer - VP

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Job Overview

Banking As A Service (BaaS) Technology (a line of business within Payments under Services Technology) is looking to expand its team and we are looking for highly motivated and skilled Sr. Software development Engineers to join our growing team. 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.

Responsibilities:

• 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

Qualifications:

• 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.

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.

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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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Primary Location:

Jersey City New Jersey United States

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Primary Location Full Time Salary Range:

$142,320.00 - $213,480.00

In addition to salary, Citi’s offerings may also include, for eligible employees, discretionary and formulaic incentive and retention awards. Citi offers competitive employee benefits, including: medical, dental & vision coverage; 401(k); life, accident, and disability insurance; and wellness programs. Citi also offers paid time off packages, including planned time off (vacation), unplanned time off (sick leave), and paid holidays. For additional information regarding Citi employee benefits, please visit citibenefits.com. Available offerings may vary by jurisdiction, job level, and date of hire.

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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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Anticipated Posting Close Date:

Aug 13, 2025

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