Applications Development Sr Programmer Analyst, Assistant Vice President

Citi • Tampa, FL

1d • $96,960 - $145,440

About The Position

Citi is seeking a highly motivated Senior Software Engineer to join its Finance Engine Hedge Fund Billing technology team. The role designs, builds, and enhances high-throughput, enterprise-grade billing and calculation engines serving institutional hedge fund clients globally. The mission-critical platform handles complex fee structures and high-volume transactional processing across multiple business lines.

The position works closely with product managers, business analysts, and technical leads to deliver scalable, resilient, cloud-ready full-stack solutions using Java, Angular, and MSSQL. The engineer owns work across the software lifecycle, from requirements analysis and technical design through implementation, testing, deployment, and post-release support, and contributes to modernization, production reliability, and operational excellence.

Requirements

• 5–8 years of professional hands-on software development experience building enterprise-scale distributed systems.
• In-depth knowledge of Core Java, JVM internals, concurrency, multithreading, Spring Framework, Spring Boot, and RESTful API architecture.
• Strong proficiency in modern Angular, TypeScript, HTML5/CSS3, responsive UI design, and single-page application architecture.
• Extensive experience with relational databases such as Oracle, PostgreSQL, MS SQL, or Sybase, including query tuning, schema design, and transaction management.
• Practical experience with microservices architecture, REST/JSON APIs, and message brokers or event streaming such as Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, or JMS.
• Solid foundation in unit testing and mocking frameworks such as JUnit, Mockito, Jasmine, Karma, or Jest.
• Familiarity with Git/Bitbucket, Maven/Gradle, Jenkins, Docker, and standard deployment automation tools.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice To Haves

• Prior domain knowledge in Hedge Fund operations, Fund Administration, Institutional Billing, Asset Management, or Capital Markets.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms, including Red Hat OpenShift.
• Experience with ORM frameworks such as Hibernate/JPA and batch processing such as Spring Batch.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain full-stack applications using Java microservices and modern Angular frontends.
• Architect modular, extensible services capable of performing high-volume calculations.
• Develop interactive Angular user interfaces and operational dashboards with attention to user experience, state management, and performance.
• Write clean, documented, testable, and maintainable code in accordance with Citi engineering standards and design patterns.
• Design relational database schemas, complex SQL queries, stored procedures, indexing strategies, and views for high-performance financial data processing.
• Profile and optimize backend queries and API performance to support low-latency retrieval and reliable processing of large billing datasets.
• Maintain data integrity, transactional consistency, and auditability across financial accounting workflows.
• Own the software lifecycle from requirements analysis and technical design through implementation, automated testing, deployment, and post-release support.
• Deliver iteratively using Agile/Scrum, collaborating in sprint planning, backlog grooming, and demos.
• Promote test-driven development and automated unit, integration, and end-to-end testing.
• Integrate automated builds, static code analysis, vulnerability scanning, and automated deployments into enterprise CI/CD pipelines.
• Participate in modernization initiatives, including containerization and cloud-ready architectural enhancements.
• Partner with Level 3 Application Support and DevOps teams to diagnose and remediate production issues, perform root-cause analyses, and implement preventive fixes.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, health checks, and structured logging to support high availability.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• 401(k)
• Life, accident, and disability insurance
• Wellness programs
• Paid time off, including vacation and sick leave
• Paid holidays
• Eligible employees may receive discretionary and formulaic incentive and retention awards

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior