Lead Software Engineer

Overview

Lead the technical design, backend architecture, and engineering execution for Vendor Master Central (VMC), Citi's enterprise platform for centralizing vendor ecosystems, contracts, service catalogs, and data enrichment pipelines across Market Data Services.

What you'll do

• Lead the technical design and implementation of distributed, cloud-ready Java microservices (Java 21/25, Spring Boot) powering high-volume data ingestion, reconciliation, and enrichment.
• Architect idempotent data ingestion workflows, transactional staging mechanisms, and validation engines processing heterogeneous financial datasets and hierarchy trees.
• Design secure, performant RESTful APIs, domain models, and caching strategies supporting high-concurrency enterprise interfaces and downstream consumers.
• Partner closely with UI engineers on frontend-backend contracts and state synchronization; provide architectural oversight on React/TypeScript integration for candidate profiles with full-stack capability.
• Spearhead team-wide adoption of autonomous and assisted AI engineering tools (e.g., Devin, GitHub Copilot, Cursor) for rapid prototyping, automated code generation, complex refactoring, and test suite creation.
• Enforce modern design patterns, domain-driven design (DDD), comprehensive test automation (TDD/BDD), clean architecture, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Lead, coach, and elevate senior engineers (C11/C12) across technical design reviews, coding standards, and architectural decisions.
• Ensure system designs adhere to enterprise security standards, role-based access controls (RBAC), SSO authentication, and complete audit traceability.

What you'll need

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience with significant experience architecting and delivering enterprise-grade distributed systems.
• Expert-level knowledge of Java 21 / 25, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Spring Data, and Hibernate/JPA.
• Strong experience in relational database design (PostgreSQL / Oracle / SQL), complex query optimization, indexing strategies, and transactional integrity.
• Proven track record designing batch/stream data ingestion pipelines, reconciliation logic, and asynchronous processing engines.
• Extensive experience creating well-documented, versioned, and secure REST APIs (OpenAPI / Swagger).
• Strong proficiency with Docker, Kubernetes/OpenShift, CI/CD automation, and cloud-native observability (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
• Proven ability to operate with architectural autonomy, translating complex business requirements into elegant technical designs.
• Exceptional problem-solving skills and ability to lead incident resolution, performance tuning, and technical strategy.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, able to articulate technical trade-offs to senior leadership.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to have

• Experience or strong familiarity with modern frontend frameworks, specifically React, TypeScript, and modern state management (full-stack openness is a significant plus).
• Hands-on enthusiasm for modern AI-assisted engineering tools (Devin, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, LLM-driven coding workflows) to drive rapid delivery.

Details

• Location: Pune, Maharashtra, India.
• Full-time.