Senior Backend Lead Engineer
- Job Req Id:
- 26932596
- Location(s):
- Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Job Type:
- Hybrid
- Posted:
- Jan. 22, 2026
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Job Overview
Are you looking for a career move that will put you at the heart of a global financial institution? Then bring your skills in backend engineering to drive developer experience at scale.
By Joining Citi, you will become part of a global organization whose mission is to serve as a trusted partner to our clients by responsibly providing financial services that enable growth and economic progress.
Team/Role Overview
About us : Engineering Excellence is a CTO formed organization of top tier experts tasked with unifying existing and building new infrastructure to enhance the productivity and happiness of the 35,000 developers they serve.
What you’ll do?
· A Technical lead , working closely with key stakeholders of cloud engineering and application developments.
· Act as an development expert lead to various development groups across Citi.
· You will be instrumental in building cutting-edge, AI-powered platforms that redefine developer experience, to boost productivity across our 35,000-strong engineering community.
· Collaborate closely with our Cyber Security teams to design and implement robust, security constructs within the development lifecycle, focusing on areas like automated vulnerability scanning, secure supply chain integration.
What we’ll need from you
· Deep hands-on experience (preferably Golang\Java \Node.js ) developing high-performance products in a secured environment.
· Deep hands-on in Cloud Engineering and application security (Public Cloud\Private Cloud) demonstrated by previous roles.
· Deep understanding of security standards in authentication, authorization, credential management, certificate management.
· Demonstrable expertise with advanced Kubernetes concepts (e.g., operators, custom resource definitions, service mesh integration like Istio/Linkerd), containerization best practices, and securing containerized workloads throughout the development and deployment lifecycle."
· Lead from design to production in cloud, a high scale product in a secured manner.
· Detailed oriented, flexible, pragmatic approach thinking, get along well with people onsite/remotely.
· Experience working in a global comapnies.
· Thrive in a fast-evolving, agile development environment where innovation is encouraged with rapid iteration cycles.
· B.Sc is Computer Sciences\Engineering.
What we can offer you
By joining Citi Tel Aviv, 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
such as:
· Generous holiday allowance starting at 22 days
· Private medical insurance packages
· Employee Assistance Program
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 energized to join us, motivated to stay, and empowered to thrive.
Apply to join our team!
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Job Family Group:
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Job Family:
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Time Type:
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