**Job Purpose:** We are seeking a talented and passionate individual to join our Full-Stack development team. This role offers a unique opportunity to significantly impact the global client onboarding experience by building the future of our platform. The successful candidate will gain valuable exposure to a large-scale, modern technology platform with global reach, playing a crucial role in shaping how we serve our clients. The Senior Backend Developer - Vice President is a senior level position responsible for establishing and implementing new or revised application systems and programs in coordination with the Technology team. The overall objective of this role is to lead applications systems analysis and programming activities to expand and modernize the OMC technology platform. You will be responsible for driving technical excellence, mentoring junior developers, and ensuring the delivery of high-quality, scalable, and resilient software solutions that support Citi's global business operations. **Responsibilities:** - Lead the technical design, architecture, and development of complex applications, ensuring adherence to best practices, coding standards, and architectural patterns. Apply strong design principles and adhere to complex architectural standards. - Guide and mentor a team of developers, fostering a collaborative and high-performing environment. Conduct code reviews, provide constructive feedback, and support professional growth. - Effectively communicate technical concepts and project status to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, including senior management. - Develop common, reusable components and services, adhering to Citi’s best practices. - Design and develop high-performance, low-latency applications within existing Citi frameworks. - Ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of developed components. - Adopt an engineering mindset, thoroughly understanding use-cases, estimating volume and compute velocity requirements, and openly discussing implementation challenges and solutions. - Actively contribute to system design and architectural decisions. - Evaluate new strategic initiatives through Proof-of-Concepts (POCs) and transition successful concepts into robust, industrial-grade solutions. - Provide post-release support to business, development, and support teams. - Develop applications adhering to best practices, including Test-Driven Development (TDD), high unit test coverage, and Continuous Integration (CI). **Qualifications:** Required: - 6+ years of hands-on Java development experience, including Spring, real-time messaging, and associated Java frameworks. - Proven experience developing and maintaining highly scalable, real-time microservices and RESTful APIs. - Proficiency in ReactJS and core front-end technologies: HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript (ES6+), Redux. - Experience with real-time messaging middleware (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ, Solace, Tibco). - Hands-on experience with database technologies, including RDBMS (e.g., Oracle) and NoSQL (e.g., MongoDB). - Strong fundamentals in software development, data structures, design patterns, Object-Oriented Programming (OOP), architecture, algorithms, and problem-solving. Nice to Have: - Experience with in-memory datastore/cache libraries (e.g., Redis, Apache Ignite, Gemfire). - Exposure to Kotlin. - Experience with system performance tuning and low-latency Java programming. - Experience working with multi-threaded applications. - Experience with CI/CD pipelines. - Test-driven development, including Unit and End-to-End Testing. Competencies: - Strong verbal and written communication skills; ability to interface with business users. - Self-motivated individual with determination to achieve goals. - Willingness to learn, both technically and professionally. - Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. - Good team working skills and ability to thrive in a distributed global team environment. - Ability to work in a fast-paced environment; flexible and able to deliver quality results within required timeframes. **Education:** - Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience. This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required. ------------------------------------------------------ ## **Job Family Group:** Technology ------------------------------------------------------ ## **Job Family:** Applications Development ------------------------------------------------------ ## **Time Type:** Full time ------------------------------------------------------ ## **Primary Location Full Time Salary Range:** $120,800.00 - $170,800.00 ------------------------------------------------------ ## **Most Relevant Skills** Please see the requirements listed above. ------------------------------------------------------ ## **Other Relevant Skills** For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter. ------------------------------------------------------ ## **Automated Processing and AI** We use automated processing, including artificial intelligence, for our legitimate business interests (or our reasonable and appropriate business purposes) to identify and align the candidate's skills and abilities with a specific job opening. 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