At a Glance
- Tasks: Develop and enhance Java applications for global finance solutions.
- Company: Join Citi, a leading global financial services company with a diverse team.
- Benefits: Enjoy competitive salary, 27 days leave, private medical care, and hybrid work options.
- Other info: Dynamic work environment with a focus on innovation and collaboration across global teams.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in finance while growing your career with mentorship and learning opportunities.
- Qualifications: Strong Java development experience and familiarity with REST APIs and SQL databases.
The predicted salary is between 63000 - 77000 £ per year.
Discover your future at Citi. Working at Citi is far more than just a job. A career with us means joining a team of more than 230,000 dedicated people from around the globe. At Citi, you’ll have the opportunity to grow your career, give back to your community and make a real impact.
Job Overview: Engineer the future of global finance. At Citi, our Tech team doesn’t just support finance – we are helping to redefine it. Every day, $5 trillion crosses through our network. We do business in 180+ countries operating at a scale few can match. From deploying advanced AI to helping shape global markets, we build systems that matter. Look to join a team where your work helps influence economies, your ideas can drive innovation and outcomes, and your growth is backed by mentorship, continuous learning and flexibility with potential hybrid work opportunities. Help solve real-world challenges that touch millions and get the opportunity to build the future of finance with Citi Tech.
Project description: Unity is the global authority for business transactions across Citi, covering transactions across all asset classes in capital markets, commercial payments, account management and more. At its core, Unity provides a unique reference that keeps with a transaction for its entire lifetime thereby allowing full traceability from front office to back office providing great business benefit. This role is for a developer position responsible for accomplishing results through hands-on development/bug fixes of our Java application. The overall objective of this role is to drive applications development through programming activities.
Responsibilities:
- Platform Support & Enhancement: Build and maintain common solutions for trading platform monitoring, trade reconciliation, application recovery, and other essential support functions.
- Core Development: Participate in design sessions with the development team, both employees and vendors located across multiple locations.
- Agile SDLC pipeline: Evaluate and adopt new development tools, libraries, and approaches to improve delivery quality by aligning with latest industry trends.
- Continuous Improvement: Analyze existing software systems and propose solutions to improve overall design, architecture, and efficiency.
- Cross functional Collaboration: Communicate with stakeholders to help shape requirements and design decisions.
- Liaising with production support teams in troubleshooting and debugging applications.
- Ensure that best practices and standards are followed as part of the application development life cycle.
- Provide user/support documentation.
- Ensure applications meet performance and scalability requirements.
- Comfortable in using AI based coding assistants and AI powered SDLC processes.
Mandatory Skills:
- Strong commercial experience as a Java developer.
- Experience in REST API and authentication mechanisms (OAuth/Basic Authentication).
- Messaging Systems experience in any of the following middleware technologies (Kafka preferable, Nats, Solace, TiBCo, RabbitMQ etc.).
- Experience working with SQL and databases such as Oracle, SQL Server, Hadoop etc.
- Experience with Java Multithreading/Concurrency, Web Services (SOAP/REST), DB2 Database, JMS, MQ, NDM, SFTP.
- Acquainted with industry best practices and standards, software development tools and techniques.
- Experience in developing distributed systems.
- Experience in the use of Containers (Docker, Kubernetes).
Desirable skills:
- Experience in Low Latency Software Development in a microservices environment high performance architectures and high throughput applications is a plus.
- Experience in C++ or C# is beneficial.
- Experience in SBE.
- Experience with JNI is a plus.
- Ability to work with distributed teams across multiple time zones.
Education:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology or similar discipline.
What we’ll provide you:
By joining Citi, you will not only be part of a business casual workplace with a hybrid working model (up to 2 days working at home per week), but also receive a competitive base salary (which is annually reviewed), and enjoy a whole host of additional benefits such as:
- 27 days annual leave (plus bank holidays).
- A discretional annual performance related bonus.
- Private Medical Care & Life Insurance.
- Employee Assistance Program.
- Pension Plan.
- Paid Parental Leave.
- Special discounts for employees, family, and friends.
- Access to an array of learning and development resources.
Alongside these benefits, Citi is committed to ensuring our workplace is where everyone feels comfortable coming to work as their whole self, every day. We want the best talent around the world to be energized to join us, motivated to stay and empowered to thrive.
Java Developer (AVP) employer: Citigroup, Inc.
Citi London is an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic and inclusive work environment that fosters innovation and collaboration. With a competitive salary, generous annual leave, and a hybrid working model, employees enjoy a healthy work-life balance while having access to extensive learning and development resources. As a key player in the Equity Derivatives Technology team, you will have the opportunity to lead impactful projects and grow your career within a globally recognised financial institution.
