Principal Java Engineer - Vice President

Citi is looking for a hands- n Principal Java Engineer at Vice President level to design, build, and evolve high-quality software products that solve real business challenges at global scale.

Principal Java Engineer  you will leverage your deep technical knowledge to drive the creation of high-quality software products. You will also be expected to mentor other engineers,

share your technical expertise, and promote a culture of technical excellence within the team. The Principal Engineer will report to an Engineering Manager and will be a

floating member of multiple engineering teams. There is an expectation to contribute to the codebase and deliver solutions against the sprint-level commitments.

From a technical standpoint, the Principal 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 Principal Engineer works to understand and influence software architecture, while contributing to Citi's and GFT's technical user base.

** Responsibilities*
* + Design and build critical features and complex full-stack solutions using Java, delivering clean, efficient, and maintainable code that meets the highest quality standards across multiple agile teams.

+ Collaborate with fellow Principal Engineers to define, evolve, and influence overall system architecture, ensuring solutions are scalable, resilient, and aligned to business requirements.

+ Deliver against sprint-level commitments as an active contributor to agile delivery cycles, participating in planning, code reviews, and Scrum ceremonies across teams.

+ Provide expert technical guidance to engineering teams, helping them navigate complex challenges, make sound design decisions, and consistently ship high-quality software.

+ Evaluate emerging technologies, tools, and industry trends, providing actionable recommendations for adoption that improve engineering capability and product outcomes.

+ Partner continuously with stakeholders across the software development lifecycle to ensure technical solutions are aligned to business goals and delivered with measurable impact.

+ Promote a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement across teams, fostering knowledge sharing, engineering best practices, and a high standard of craft.

** Required

Qualifications & Skills *
* + 10 or more years of software engineering experience building and delivering production-grade applications using Java, with a clear command of data structures and object-oriented design principles.

+ Proven depth in cloud-native development and container orchestration, with hands-on use of tools such as Docker, Kubernetes, or Open Shift across multiple years of delivery.

+ Extensive experience designing and building microservices and service-oriented architectures, including RESTful APIs and GraphQL implementations.

+ Strong working knowledge of Java frameworks including Spring Boot, Quarkus, Micronaut, or Vert.x, applied across real-world software delivery.

+ Practical experience with software engineering best practices including unit testing, automation, design patterns, and peer code review as core parts of the development workflow.

+ Familiarity with CI/CD pipeline tooling such as Tekton, Harness, CircleCI, or Jenkins, in either on-premise or public cloud environments.

+ Multiple years of working within agile and iterative delivery frameworks, contributing actively to sprint execution and team-level Scrum practices.

** Beneficial

Skills & Qualifications *
* + Architecture experience designing horizontally scalable, highly available, and low-latency distributed systems in cloud environments such as AWS or Open Shift.

+ Exposure to event-driven architecture patterns and streaming technologies, including Kafka, Spark, or Flink.

+ Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code tooling such as Terraform or Cloud Formation, and API management platforms.

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Experience with observability, security, and monitoring tooling including Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, ELK, or Cloud Watch.

+ Experience mentoring and providing technical leadership to teams of five or more engineers, with exposure to front-end technologies such as React or Angular and database concepts across RDBMS and No

SQL.

** What We Offer*
* Joining Citi means working at the intersection of technology and global finance, where the software you build has real impact  will be part of a high-performing engineering community that values technical craft, collaborative problem-solving, and continuous professional growth - with the tools, support, and flexibility to do your best work.

+ Hybrid working model with 3 days in the office and 2 days working remotely, giving you structure and flexibility in equal measure.

+ Access to Citi's global engineering community, where you can contribute to technical forums, share expertise, and shape engineering standards beyond your immediate team.

+ Meaningful technical challenges at…