Job Title: Software Engineering Team Lead – C14/SVP

The Role

We are looking for hands-on full-stack engineering team leads who are passionate about solving business problems through innovation and engineering practices. The team lead plays a meaningful role in crafting and maintaining the strategic partnership between business needs and technology delivery. This role leads an Agile team to solve complex technical problems that span multiple workstreams, owning the effort to plan, design, develop, and launch efficient systems and solutions in support of our core organizational functions. The ideal candidate will be able to design and execute programs cutting across multiple steams and using multiple technologies. In addition to managing the agile team, there is also an expectation to contribute to the codebase and deliver solutions against the sprint-level commitments.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the code-contributing leader of an Agile team, guiding them to deliver sprint goals and solve technical challenges across multiple workstreams
• Design, document, and develop world-class enterprise applications leveraging the latest technologies and design patterns.
• Provide strategic influence and exercise control over team resources, budget management and planning, while monitoring end results.
• Utilize in-depth knowledge of concepts and procedures within your own area and basic knowledge of other areas to resolve issues.
• Ensure essential procedures are followed and contribute to defining standards.
• Integrate in-depth knowledge of applications development with overall technology function to achieve established goals.
• Provide evaluative judgement based on analysis of facts in complicated, unique, and dynamic situations including drawing from internal and external sources.
• Influence and negotiate with senior leaders across functions, as well as communicate with external parties, as necessary.
• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency, as well as effectively supervise the activity of others and create accountability with those who fail to maintain these standards.

Required Qualifications

• 14+ (flexible) years of experience as a Software Engineer/Developer using Java
• Experience mentoring and providing technical leadership for teams of 5 or more developers
• Multiple years of experience with software engineering best practices (unit testing, automation, design patterns, peer review, etc.)
• Clear understanding of Data Structures and Object Oriented Principles using Java
• Multiple years of experience architecting and building horizontally scalable, highly available, highly resilient, and low latency applications
• Multiple years of experience with Cloud-native development and Container Orchestration tools (Serverless, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, etc.).
• Multiple years of experience on Service Oriented and MicroServices architectures, including REST and GraphQL implementations
• Experience working with AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Devin, and Claude Code.

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Job Family Group:

Technology

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Job Family:

Digital Software Engineering

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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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