Senior Java Developer - Assistant Vice President at Citi

Department: Technology

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Compensation

CA$94,300 – CA$141,500/yr

Setup: Hybrid
Location: Mississauga, Ontario
Type: Full-time
Level: senior
Posted: Jun 23, 2026

Description

Citi is hiring a Senior Java Developer to lead the architecture, design, delivery, and operational excellence of mission-critical cloud-native, microservices, and event-driven systems. The role owns architecture decisions, technical leadership, code quality, security, integrations, observability, and stakeholder communication while building services with Java 17+, Spring Boot, REST/GraphQL, Kafka, Kubernetes, and related technologies. Candidates need 5+ years of enterprise-system experience, 7+ years of Java and Spring experience, and a bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.

Required Skills

Java 17+
Spring Boot
Spring Cloud
REST/GraphQL
Kafka
Kubernetes
Docker
Terraform
OpenTelemetry
Redis
OAuth2/OIDC
Threat modeling

Additional Information

Minimum Education: Bachelor’s degree or university degree, or equivalent experience
Required Previous Experiences: 5+ years of progressive experience building enterprise systems
7+ years of Java and Spring experience at scale
Delivery of cloud-native, microservices, and event-driven architectures
Preferred Qualifications: gRPC
Domain knowledge in payments, banking, capital markets, insurance, e-commerce, supply chain, or telecommunications
Threat modeling, shift-left security, SAST/DAST, secrets rotation, and mTLS
CDC, schema registry, exactly-once semantics, and streaming ETL
Service mesh, API gateways, and serverless platforms
CQRS, event sourcing, Saga orchestration, and hexagonal architecture
Translation Company Name: Citi