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Senior Java Developer

Job Req Id:
25897299
Location(s):
Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Job Type:
Hybrid
Posted:
Oct. 01, 2025

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Job Overview

Citi, the leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Our core activities are safeguarding assets, lending money, making payments and accessing the capital markets on behalf of our clients.

Citi’s Mission and Value Proposition explain what we do and Strategy explain how we do it. Our mission is to serve as a trusted partner to our clients by responsibly providing financial services that enable growth and economic progress. We strive to earn and maintain our clients’ and the public’s trust by constantly adhering to the highest ethical standards and making a positive impact on the communities we serve.

Seeking an experience Java / J2EE technical lead to join a highly skilled team of senior developers within Risk Technology and help us continue implementation of leading technology solutions that drive our business. The role is not just about software development, it is also about the design and architecture of our solutions. Candidate should be self-motivated, energetic, driven and looking to build a career in a fast-paced market environment at a top brokerage firm.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Responsible for developing, enhancing, modifying and/or maintaining Risk & Regulatory applications

  • Engage with key stake holders, internal and external, to understand user requirements

  • Working with the Business Leads and other development leads to implement technology transformation and Cloud migration plans

  • Work with other development team members to allow them to implement the designs, including design and code reviews

  • Take ownership and accountability for the deliverables in all phases of the development lifecycle

  • Keep the data structured and clean with modern data management tools

  • Identify improvement opportunities including automation, process re-engineering and workforce management

  • Proactively participate in platform design and review activities

Job Skills / Qualifications:

Required Skills

  • 6+ years of overall development / technical expertise

  • Knowledge of Domain Driven Design concepts and designing and developing Microservices from Monolith architecture

  • Expert knowledge of Spring ecosystem (Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Spring Integration, Spring Cloud Data Flow, etc.)

  • Develop enterprise-grade applications using Java 8/JEE (and higher), No SQL, Spring, among other tools

  • Hands-on experience with Core Java Technologies with attention on multithreading, distributed caching, & fault-tolerant logic

  • Hands-on experience in performance tuning distributed applications and building unit tests.

  • Experience is setting up CI/CD pipeline for different platforms.

  • Understanding and experience in Object-Oriented Design Principles & Test-Driven Development

  • Understanding and experience using continuous build tools like Maven / Jenkins / GIT

  • Strong Analytical and communication skills

Desired Skills / Good to have

  • Experience with React / Angular is a plus

  • Experience in event-driven design of Microservices and 12-factor app development standards

  • Experience building modern enterprise applications and deploying to public or private clouds including AWS

  • Experience in Distributed cache systems like Apache Ignite; App developer w/ experience in writing distributable jobs in Spark

  • Financial Industry experience is a plus

  • Spring / Hibernate knowledge is a plus

  • Experience within an Agile development methodology is a plus.

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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 Full Time Salary Range:

$94,300.00 - $141,500.00

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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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Citi is an equal opportunity employer, and qualified candidates will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristic protected by law.

If you are a person with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation to use our search tools and/or apply for a career opportunity review Accessibility at Citi.

View Citi’s EEO Policy Statement and the Know Your Rights poster.

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