Applications Development Sr Programmer Analyst - Java / Microservices

The Applications Development Senior Programmer Analyst is an intermediate level position responsible for participation in the establishment and implementation of new or revised application systems and programs in coordination with the Technology team. The overall objective of this role is to contribute to applications systems analysis and programming activities.
 

The Role

We are looking for experienced and proficient 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

• 9+ 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 with Cloud-native development and Container Orchestration tools (Serverless, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, etc.).
• 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 front-end technologies (Angular, Javascript, Typescript)
• 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 (SCRUM, Kanban)
• Exposure to Database technologies (RDBMS, NoSQL, Oracle, MySQL, Mongo)
• Exposure to event-driven design and architecture (i.e., Kafka, Spark Flink, RabbitMQ, etc.)
• B.Tech/B.Engg 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 API Management tools
• Exposure to Infrastructure as Code tools (i.e., Terraform, Cloudformation, etc.)
• Exposure to Security, Observability, and Monitoring tools (i.e., Grafana Prometheus, Splunk, ELK, CloudWatch, etc.)
• Experience mentoring and providing technical leadership for teams of 5 or more developers
• Exposure to Job Schedulers (i.e. Autosys, Cloudwatch, etc)

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.

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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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Citi is an equal opportun