**The Role** We are looking for experienced full-stack software engineers who are passionate about solving business problems through innovation and engineering practices. This role will be responsible for writing code, pairing with other developers as appropriate, decomposing acceptance criteria to understand team backlog deliverables, complexities, and risk, while working as a strong contributor on an agile team. From a technical standpoint, the Software Engineer has full-stack coding and implementation responsibilities and adheres to best practice principles including modern cloud-based software development, agile and scrum, code quality, and tool usage. The Software Engineer works to understand and influence software architecture, while contributing to Citi’s and GFT’s technical user base. **Responsibilities** + Apply depth of knowledge and expertise to all aspects of the software development lifecycle, as well as partner continuously with stakeholders on a regular basis + Develop and engineer solutions within an Agile software delivery team, working to collaboratively deliver sprint goals, write code, and participate in the broader Citi technical community and team-level Agile and Scrum processes. + Contribute to the design, documentation, and development of world-class enterprise applications leveraging the latest technologies and software design patterns. + Leverage technical knowledge of concepts and procedures within own area and basic knowledge of other areas to resolve issues, as necessary. + Follow and contribute to defining technical and team standards. + Collaborate technical leadership to achieve established goals, in line with our broader technical strategy. **Required Qualifications** + 3+ years of experience as a Software Engineer/Developer using Java + Multiple years of experience with software engineering best practices (unit testing, automation, design patterns, peer review, etc.). + Clear understanding of Data Structures and Object Oriented Principles using Java + Multiple years of experience on Service Oriented and MicroServices architectures, including REST and GraphQL implementations. + Multiple years of experience with frameworks like Spring Boot, Quarkus, Micronaut, or Vert.x + Exposure to Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, either on-premise or public cloud (i.e., Tekton, Harness, CircleCI, Cloudbees Jenkins, etc.). + Multiple years of experience with agile and iterative software delivery + BA/BS degree or equivalent work experience **Preferred Qualifications** + Exposure to architecture experience in building horizontally scalable, highly available, highly resilient, and low latency applications. + Exposure to Cloud infrastructure both on-premise and public cloud (i.e., OpenShift, AWS, etc.). + Exposure to Cloud-native development and Container Orchestration tools (Serverless, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, etc.) + Exposure to event-driven design and architecture (i.e., Kafka, Spark Flink, etc.) + Exposure to API Management tools + Exposure to Infrastructure as Code tools (i.e., Terraform, Cloudformation, etc.) + Exposure to Security, Observability, and Monitoring (i.e., Grafana Prometheus, Splunk, ELK, CloudWatch, etc.) + Experience mentoring junior developers + Exposure to database concepts (RDBMS, NoSQL) and web-based technologies (Angular/React) is a plus **Responsibilities:** + Accountable for executing and driving mid-size feature application design and development efforts to completion, serving as a development lead on medium-scale projects and supporting the execution of larger efforts. + Proficient at operating with considerable autonomy and discretion as you will significantly influence the way an application is designed and developed by providing subject specific expertise and an advanced level of understanding of application programming principles. + Sought after due to ability to analyze and troubleshoot coding, application performance and design challenges. + Capable of research in root cause of development and performance concerns as well as the resolution of defects. + Have a deep understanding of the technical requirements for the solutions being built. + Understand engineering needs including those required to build, maintain, and operate the system through all phases of its life. + Proficient in information modeling, data structures and algorithms. + Understand maintenance characteristics, runtime properties and dependencies that exist in support of your system’s software. These dependencies will include but not limited to: hardware, platform, operating system, performance and load requirements, as well as contingencies with upstream and downstream systems. + Demonstrate an advanced understanding of supported main system flows and possess a comprehensive understanding of how the system and others (i.e. architecture or infrastructure) collectively integrate to contribute towards achieving business objectives. Using this expertise, assist with the development of standards for coding, testing, debugging and implementation. This will ensure application design adheres to the overall architecture blueprint. + Participate in design discussions as a Development Lead and as such will play the part of a key decision maker in driving design decisions. This is evidenced by your knowledge of the application code details and your experience with the technology and teams engaged. + Work with limited guidance, seeking guidance only as needed as the development and delivery strategy is defined; the design is not. + Exhibit the ability to turn complex application design into a well written application. + Partner with industry vendors that provide technology or user experience design components that support our Digital architecture and work with vendors on our implementation plans and roadmaps identifying partnership opportunities to increase our development velocity and our learnings. + Participates in the full development life cycle, identify dependencies between agile and waterfall delivery, working within broadly defined parameters, including test plan execution and software quality needs + Directly impact the business by influencing strategic functional decisions through advice, counsel or provided services. This will require persuading and influencing others through strong and comprehensive communication and diplomacy skills. + Communicate progress, anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, identify, assess, track and mitigate issues/risks at multiple levels. + Recognize discordant views and take part in constructive dialog to resolve them. + Work across teams to optimize processes. + Regularly review metrics and proactively seek out new and improved mechanisms for visibility ensuring your program stays aligned with organization objectives. + Continuously assess development processes, test plans, and operations. + Work with teams to improve concurrent project delivery. + Streamline and / or eliminate excess process in any area of architecture, build, delivery, production operations environment, or business area where the same efforts (or issues) are repeated year-over-year. + Share knowledge with the team in various forums (brown bags, engineering forums etc.) and demonstrate a higher level of knowledge through industry certifications + Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency. **Qualifications:** + 5-8 years in a product development/product management environment + Strong analytical and quantitative skills; Data driven and results-oriented + Experience delivering with an agile methodology + Experience in affecting large culture change + Experience leading infrastructure programs + Skilled at working with third party service providers + Excellent written and oral communication skills **Education:** + Bachelor’s/University degree or equivalent experience ------------------------------------------------------ **Job Family Group:** Technology ------------------------------------------------------ **Job Family:** Digital Software Engineering ------------------------------------------------------ **Time Type:** Full time ------------------------------------------------------ **Primary Location:** Tampa Florida United States ------------------------------------------------------ **Primary Location Full Time Salary Range:** $96,960.00 - $145,440.00 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. ------------------------------------------------------ **Anticipated Posting Close Date:** Jan 31, 2025 ------------------------------------------------------ Citi is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran. 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