Java Engineering Lead

Overview

Java Engineering Lead for Citi’s Payments Technology team, providing end-to-end technical leadership across APIs, microservices, integrations, and supporting infrastructure.

What you'll do

• Architect and deliver end-to-end technical solutions across the payments platform.
• Set and enforce engineering standards (clean code, SOLID, disciplined design) to reduce technical debt.
• Lead design reviews and technical experiments to evaluate and evolve platform approaches.
• Translate system requirements into software design artifacts that guide consistent implementation.
• Coordinate technical delivery across internal and cross-functional teams including planning and estimation.
• Embed resilience and high-availability thinking across the architecture.
• Manage technical risk by identifying issues early and communicating clearly.

What you'll need

• 15+ years of hands-on design and development experience.
• Deep Java expertise and commitment to clean code and SOLID principles.
• Practical experience with Spring Boot, microservices architecture, and Kafka on open-source technology stacks.
• Hands-on experience with MongoDB and data modelling/persistence patterns for distributed systems.
• Experience designing and building resilient, high-availability architectures under high-throughput conditions.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and single-click deployment workflows (e.g., Tekton, Harness, Lightspeed, OpenShift).
• Fluency in test-driven and behavior-driven development using JUnit and standard testing frameworks.
• Active practitioner of AI tools and generative AI technologies for engineering productivity.

Details

• Location: Pune, Maharashtra, India.