Java Developer

The Applications Dev Programmer is an experienced and proficient engineer who is passionate about solving technical problems through innovation and engineering practices. This role will be responsible for writing/reviewing code, pairing with AI Coding agents/other developers as appropriate, understanding the infra issues w.r.t Kafka and ElasticSearch, decomposing acceptance criteria to understand team backlog deliverables, complexities, and risk, apply modern engineering practices like TDD, BDD, trunk-based development, feature toggles while working as a strong contributor on an agile team

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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/review 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.

• Serve as advisor or coach to new or lower-level analysts.

• Can exercise independence of judgement and autonomy.

• Acts as SME to senior stakeholders and /or other team members.

• Have mindset of continuous improvement in system implementation and ways of working

• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating 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.

Required Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience as a Java Developer / engineer.

• Strong hands-on experience to event-driven architecture using Kafka, spring boot microservices, SQL, Gradle, OpenShift/Kubernetes, Elastic Search

• Practical experience of BDD/functional TDD using Cucumber/Spock, Trunk Based Development, feature toggles etc.

• Strong understanding of agile development, and a craftsperson approach to engineering applying SOLID and Clean Code principles

• Clear understanding of Data Structures and Object-Oriented Principles using Java

• Exposure to Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, either on-premises or public cloud (i.e. Tekton, Harness, Jenkins, etc.)

• Strong experience with Cloud-native development and Container Orchestration tools (Serverless, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, etc.).

• B.Tech. /B.Engg. degree or equivalent work experience

Additional Job Description

• Exposure to architecture experience in building horizontally scalable, highly available, highly resilient, and low latency event driven applications

• Exposure to Security, Observability, and Monitoring tools (i.e., Grafana Prometheus, Splunk, ELK, CloudWatch, etc.)

• Good exposure to Data engineering concepts on data storage, data quality, data governance, data modeling and data management.

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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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## 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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