Senior Back-end Java Developer - Trading Platforms, VP

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Job Overview

About Citi:

Citi, the leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Citi provides consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management.

As a bank with a brain and a soul, Citi creates economic value that is systemically responsible and in our clients’ best interests. As a financial institution that touches every region of the world and every sector that shapes your daily life, our Operations & Technology teams are charged with a mission that rivals any large tech company. Our technology solutions are the foundations of everything we do from keeping the bank safe, managing global resources, and providing the technical tools our workers need to be successful to designing our digital architecture and ensuring our platforms provide a first-class customer experience. We reimagine client and partner experiences to deliver excellence through secure, reliable, and efficient services.

Our commitment to diversity includes a workforce that represents the clients we serve from all walks of life, backgrounds, and origins. We foster an environment where the best people want to work. We value and demand respect for others, promote individuals based on merit, and ensure opportunities for personal development are widely available to all. Ideal candidates are innovators with well-rounded backgrounds who bring their authentic selves to work and complement our culture of delivering results with pride. If you are a problem solver who seeks passion in your work, come join us. We’ll enable growth and progress together.

The Role:

We are seeking a highly skilled and hands-on Senior Back-end Java Developer - Trading Platforms to join our back-office trading application technology team, where you will play a pivotal role in designing, building, and sustaining scalable, high-performance software solutions. This position sits at the intersection of engineering excellence and financial technology transformation, requiring deep expertise in system design, microservices architecture, and modern delivery practices. The ideal candidate will champion trunk-based development, test automation, and secure coding as standard operating practices, contributing to a high-velocity, quality-first engineering culture. This is an opportunity to shape mission-critical trading infrastructure at a firm recognized among leading financial institutions for its commitment to technology modernization and engineering rigor.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain robust, scalable, and high-performance back-office trading applications following SOLID principles, clean code standards, and modern software design patterns.
• Implement trunk-based development practices, feature flags, and progressive delivery strategies to enable continuous integration and rapid, safe deployment cycles.
• Apply Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) methodologies to ensure high unit test coverage, code quality, and production reliability.
• Drive the adoption of CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, infrastructure as code, and automated testing to enhance system reliability and delivery velocity.
• Conduct rigorous code reviews and vulnerability assessments, enforcing secure coding standards and ensuring compliance with organizational security policies.
• Design and deliver distributed, event-driven microservices leveraging messaging platforms such as Kafka, Solace, Tibco, and MQ, with a focus on low-latency and high-availability requirements.
• Collaborate with architects, product owners, and cross-functional teams to design scalable, resilient system architectures and contribute to technical design documentation.
• Mentor junior engineers, lead technical discussions, and foster a culture of continuous learning, engineering excellence, and shared accountability.
• Partner with DevOps teams to optimize deployment pipelines, observability tooling, and production resilience for critical trading systems.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on coding proficiency in Kotlin, Java, and Python, with demonstrated experience building production-grade, enterprise-scale applications.
• Deep expertise in microservices architecture and system design, including Spring Boot, distributed systems, high availability, fault tolerance, and low-latency computing.
• Proficiency in event-driven and messaging systems, including Kafka, Solace, Tibco, and MQ, with experience designing and operating high-throughput data pipelines.
• Hands-on experience with containerization and cloud-native platforms, specifically Kubernetes, Docker, and OpenShift.
• Solid experience with relational databases, particularly Oracle SQL, within high-performance transactional environments.
• Proven experience with trunk-based development, feature flags, and progressive delivery in an enterprise engineering context.
• Strong command of TDD, BDD, and automation-first testing practices, with a track record of maintaining high test coverage in agile delivery environments.
• Proficiency in CI/CD pipeline design and operation, with a firm understanding of DevOps principles, secure coding practices, and vulnerability assessment methodologies.
• Experience conducting code reviews, leading technical discussions, and mentoring engineers within cross-functional, agile product teams.
• Familiarity with performance tuning, observability, and production monitoring practices in distributed, high-availability financial systems.

Education

• Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related technical field, or industry equivalent experience required
• 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:

May 11, 2026

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