Digital Assets Senior BackEnd Engineer

An Innovation Labs Digital Assets Application Senior Engineer must be a highly motivated and proactive hands-on software engineer (Back End, Java Focus), have a proven ability and experience working with web applications in production. The successful candidate will be part of the core team continuing to build our Citi Integrated Digital Assets Platform (CIDAP). The ideal candidate will be a self-driven, proactive, strong enterprise developer and resourceful team player who can comfortably work with a large team of highly motivated individuals within Citi’s larger software engineering network.

We are looking for candidates who understand how to build the backend of enterprise-grade web applications. The successful individual should understand the basics of web3 infrastructure, blockchain technology and digital assets, and must be a strong enterprise developer of web applications. Experience and knowledge of web3 application development is a plus.

Key Responsibilities:

In this role, you will be handling the following (but not limited to) responsibilities:

To collaborate with team members in implementation approach of web applications leveraging blockchain technology
To own and to delivery functional scope end-to-end of applications leveraging blockchain technology meeting our quality standards
To solve solution engineering challenges to meet our stakeholders’ requirements and expectations
To know and properly use best and common practices, and design patterns for enterprise web applications
To know and properly use best and common practices, and design patterns for web3 applications
To properly use collaborative tools to manage and deliver work in a distributed team
To contribute and maintain tech documents for code and applications built and maintained
To be a team player and properly communicate in a distributed team
Help resolve/escalate issues as needed to successfully deliver projects on time, on budget and with quality

Qualifications/ Experience

Bachelor’s degree in CS or Engineering; MS or PhD in computer science, or related discipline a plus
7 to 10 years of experience in full software development and testing lifecycle. Experience from financial services industry is a plus.
5 to 7 years of experience and expertise with Backend web development with Java spring
1 to 3 years of experience in web3 application development is a plus
1 to 3 years of experience and expertise developing web applications using asynchronous programming and communication
Experience and expertise developing web applications adhering to best practices and patterns for reliability, scalability, and performance
Familiarity with web3 libraries like Web3J and Web3JS is a plus
Familiarity with common and best practices for web3 applications is a plus
Familiarity of Solidity code and best practices is a plus
Familiarity of basics of DevOps and containerize applications is a plus
Familiarity of Agile Methodology and Scrum is a plus

Competencies/ Skills

Enjoy coding :)
Strong team player with ability to communicate to technical / non-technical stakeholders at all levels and a start-up mindset.
Proven history of delivering high-quality, increasingly complex, commercial software products.
Strong engineering fundamentals (testing, code reviews, code structure, readable and maintainable code).
Hands-on development experience as a full stack developer building enterprise-grade web applications
Excellent computer science fundamentals: demonstrable command of data structures, algorithms, and design patterns along with capability to translate them into working, elegant code.
Intricate knowledge of controls for consistent deployment and management of applications using best-in-class with toolsets such as git, Jira, Jenkins, Helm Charts, etc.

Development Value:

You will gain significant experience of the technologies and businesses and engineering groups across Citi, giving you exposure to new and existing methodologies and systems as well as the opportunity to work with multiple teams around the globe. As a member of the Citi Integrated Digital Assets Platform engineering team, you will have to opportunity to work with a team of highly motivated, T-shaped, smart individuals who think out of the box and look for disruptive opportunities for commercial benefit.

Exposure to newly released and upcoming technologies and the ability to positively contribute to the strategies of the business. By working within the senior leadership team you will be highly visible across Citi and will have access to Citi’s executive management team.

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Job Family Group:

Technology

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Job Family:

Applications Development

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Time Type:

Full time

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Most Relevant Skills

Please see the requirements listed above.

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Other Relevant Skills

For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.

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