Core Java Developer / Engineering Manager (Hands-on)

Job description

This is a developer position, for a hands on Java coder with solid experience of Java, Spring and relational databases. Candidates are expected to write high quality, clean code with robust tests.

Role responsibility will include

• Manage/develop multiple teams of professionals to accomplish established goals and conduct personnel duties for team (e.g. performance evaluations, hiring and disciplinary actions) as well as ensure team adheres to best practices and process Develop vision for team around roles and responsibilities, and structure team to ensure greatest impact, efficient use of resource, and alignment to business structures
• Prepare and present regular team/project reviews to senior management and business leaders
• Drive the design and development of system architecture, work with end-users of the systems, and enhance the quality of deliverables Ensure staff follows Citi documented policy and procedures as well as maintain desktop procedures and supporting documentation for filings on a current basis and in comprehensive manner
• Lead and deliver local staff forums, present global, regional, and location news and updates to engage team in the progress of organization
• Contribute to defining and implementing best practices and processes for the department and ensure transparency and consistency across teams

Skills Required

Relevant experience includes all of the below:

• The role is hands on - includes both technical implementation and thought leadership.
  • The role does involve budget responsibility
  • Manage and inspire a high-quality team of engineers
• Solid experience of a modern long term support version of Java – preferably 17 or 21
  • Object oriented design
  • Lambdas & streams
  • Executors
  • Generics
• Expert use of source control using Git, experience with Pull Request workflow, and a solid understanding of safe branching and merging practices ideally using trunk based development, or alternatively using well known branching strategies such as Gitflow
• Extensive experience of continuous integration using TeamCity, Jenkins or Tekton
• A good experience of writing unit tests with JUnit, preferably JUnit5, good experience of Spring testing support, ideally experience of other testing frameworks such as RESTAssured, Selenium, Mockito. Candidates should be focused not on coverage numbers but on high quality, stable tests
• An understanding of static code analysis using Sonar and other linting tools, and a relentless drive to keep code quality issues to a minimum
• A good understanding of dependency management using Gradle or Maven,
  • solid familiarity with binary repositories such as Jfrog Artifactory,
  • an understanding of the tooling required to detect and remediate out of date dependencies,
  • and an understanding of the potential vulnerabilities introduced by third party opensource software.
• Solid experience with Spring framework including SpringBoot, Spring JDBC
• Understanding of TLS, certificate management, and secrets management solutions such as Hashicorp Vault, Cyberark
• Experience with designing and building OpenAPI endpoints
• Experience of integrating with messaging technologies such as Solace, Kafka, EMS
• Experience with relational databases, preferably Oracle; good skills at integrating SQL into Java applications using a preferred framework (Spring JDBC, Hibernate etc) and managing database related changes with Flyway or a similar tool
• Experience with building and running containers using Docker / Podman / containerd
• Experience with cloud platforms such as Kubernetes and/or OpenShift
• Good Linux skills

This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.

What we’ll provide you

By joining Citi London, 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

Visit our Global Benefits page to learn more.

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.

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