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Job description
Are you passionate about engineering, testing, automation, and building high-quality software? Do you thrive on working across diverse teams to share your expertise and raise the bar for everyone around you? Do you enjoy collaborating in an Agile environment and take pride in seeing the applications you build delight users? If you're energized by technical leadership, this is the role for you.
About the Team
Prime Brokerage Technology delivers the solutions that underpin the operations of our clients and traders, forming the technological backbone of our Prime Finance business. This is an area of significant opportunity, identified as a major growth priority for Citi with technology serving as the key to unlocking that potential.
Job Background
Prime Finance operates in a highly competitive marketplace, delivering Prime Brokerage services to institutional clients such as hedge funds, backed by robust financing and stock borrow capabilities.
Prime Brokerage Technology provides the platforms and solutions that support our clients and traders. Our clients depend on us to deliver consistently high levels of service, ensuring transactions, payments, and reporting are processed accurately and without failure, every single day.
We are partway through a transformation journey, replacing legacy components with test-driven, cloud-native microservices designed for stability, scalability, and release agility. In this role, you will help drive that engineering transformation across both the software and the teams that build it.
Key Responsibilities
Deliver and own cash and fixed-income data processing components (Java/Kotlin) within the Prime Brokerage Technology platform
Champion developer-led automated testing as a core engineering practice
Work within an Agile team with a strong focus on Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)
Actively participate in design, planning, and estimation discussions
Partner with multiple management teams to ensure functions are well integrated to meet shared goals, and identify system enhancements needed to support new products and process improvements
Resolve high-impact problems through in-depth evaluation of complex business processes, system architecture, and industry standards
Provide subject-matter expertise and advanced applications programming knowledge, ensuring designs align with the overall architecture blueprint
Apply advanced knowledge of system flow to define standards for coding, testing, debugging, and implementation
Build a comprehensive understanding of how architecture, infrastructure, and other business functions integrate to achieve broader business goals
Deliver in-depth, interpretive analysis to define issues clearly and develop innovative solutions
Provide technical leadership, acting as an advisor and coach to mid-level developers and analysts
Knowledge & Experience
6-10 years of relevant experience in Apps Development or systems analysis role
Proven background delivering software using aniterative Agile approach
Track record of quality-led engineering, includingdeveloper-led automated testing, CI/CD, microservices, containerized deployment, and cloud engineering
Demonstrated ability toown and drive successful delivery to business stakeholders
Comfortable engaging directly withproduct owners to understand requirements and explore solutions
Ability tomanage multiple projects simultaneously
Prior experience or knowledge ofPrime Brokerage is desirable but not essential
Experience operating in a collaborative leadership capacity, acting as "first among peers"
Required Skills
Open, collaborative communication style
Genuine pride in delivering solutions that make users happy
Practical experience withAgile and DevOps practices - including continuous integration, test automation, frequent releases, and containerization
Hands-on JVM development experience usingKotlin, Java, or Scala
Solid understanding of Event-based architectures andHTTP/REST-based architectures
Working knowledge ofrelational databases and SQL
Familiarity with tools such asKubernetes, OpenShift , Google Cloud Platform (GCP) , Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a strong plus
Qualifications
Degree in a technical or quantitative discipline preferred (e.g., Computer Science, Mathematics, or related field)
Competencies
Takes personal ownership of the timeliness and quality of delivery
Communicates and collaborates effectively with business users and other technology teams
Champions a culture ofcontinuous improvement , always seeking to refine processes and practices - both individually and across the team
Comfortable giving and receivingopen, honest feedback
This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.
Job Family Group:Technology
Job Family:Applications Development
Time Type:Full time
Primary Location:Tampa Florida United States
Primary Location Full Time Salary Range:$113,840.00 - $170,760.00
In addition to salary, Citi’s offerings may also include, for eligible employees, discretionary and formulaic incentive and retention awards. Citi offers competitive employee benefits, including: medical, dental & vision coverage; 401(k); life, accident, and disability insurance; and wellness programs. Citi also offers paid time off packages, including planned time off (vacation), unplanned time off (sick leave), and paid holidays. For additional information regarding Citi employee benefits, please visit citibenefits.com. Available offerings may vary by jurisdiction, job level, and date of hire.
Most Relevant Skills: Please see the requirements listed above.
Other Relevant Skills: For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.
Anticipated Posting Close Date:Sep 30, 2026
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tampa, FL, 33646, US
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