Lead Software Engineer

Company: Citigroup
Location: Jersey City
Posted on: May 16, 2022

Job Description:

**Role/Position Overview:**As a lead software engineer on our client onboarding platform, you will drive design and development stream and act as a trusted advisor to the senior management team. You will make clear, simple and technically sound decisions and champion high standards of coding and architecture best practices. You will have a focus on what is best for our user experience in all your decision making, in particular you have a passion for reliability and usability of our systems and care for our user base of client operations, onboarding analysts, sales, implementations and direct-clients.Not only will you utilize the technical expertise to take on and provide technical leadership for major projects, but also you will manage a team of senior engineers. You will be required to lead from the front, demonstrating best practices and high engineer standards directly through your work and in the way you lead the team of engineers.As the lead software engineer you will manage your project goals, contribute to product strategy and work closely with the product owner and lead architect on a number of challenging initiatives. You will also closely collaborate with partner teams to facilitate architectural decisions and technical integration agreements. We expect you to be passionate about architecture, CI/CD, agile delivery, DevOps and application reliability.**Team/Function Overview:**ISG aims to deliver authoritative and timely sources of reference data to the firm through service-oriented operations teams and state of art technologies, which facilitate the collection, storage, analysis and distribution of product, pricing, client, account and corporate action data. Operations Master Central is a state of art platform based on self-service rule-driven business process management engine and designed to minimize Client onboarding time to market while keeping the costs flat.**Responsibilities:**+ Develop high quality, robust code+ Lead a development team of engineers+ Oversee the platform, day to day requests, long term projects, and strategy of the team+ Continually enhance the team's performance by eliminating Toil through automation+ Eliminate waste in the SDLC process+ Ensure your platform is fully compliant to Citi's compliance, security and audit policies+ Ensure system stability through enhancement/maintenance periods**Skillset**+ Proven experience working through the full product cycle from initial design to the final product;+ Strong team leadership skills is a must;+ 10+ years of industry software engineering experience particularly 8+ year of hands on with Java/Kotlin;+ 8+ years of experience developing multithreaded JVM applications;+ Must have an excellent practical experience developing large scale JVM applications;+ Practical experience developing distributed systems;+ Hands on experience developing distributes systems and practical experience with container based technology in particular Kubernetes;+ Practical experience with JVM applications performance tuning;+ Practical experience working with document storage databases in particular MongoDB;+ Practical experience with CICD pipelines and DevOps engineering practices;+ Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science/Engineering/Mathematics. Exceptional candidates with excellent track records also accepted.-------------------------------------------------**Job Family Group:**Technology-------------------------------------------------**Job Family:**Systems & Engineering------------------------------------------------------**Time Type:**Full time------------------------------------------------------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.Citigroup Inc. and its subsidiaries ("Citi") invite all qualified interested applicants to apply for career opportunities. 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