Lead Java Backend Engineer - Vice President

About the role

Citi is looking for a Lead API & Microservice Integration Engineer to serve as the Java Spring Boot subject matter expert and integration architect within the AI Automation Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team, part of Consumer Operations Technology. In this senior individual contributor role, you will design and deliver the API-first backbone that connects Citi's enterprise systems, data sources, and cloud-native services to our AI automation platforms.

What you'll do

• Define and enforce the API-first strategy for the FDE organization, establishing OpenAPI/Swagger contract-first development practices, API versioning standards
• Lead hands-on design and delivery of production-grade Java Spring Boot microservices — implementing resilient service patterns (Resilience4j circuit breakers, retry
• Lead integration efforts with Citi enterprise systems including financial data platforms, identity/auth services (OAuth2/OIDC, SAML), and third-party providers
• Partner with the Lead AI/GenAI Engineer to expose LLM inference, RAG pipeline, and agentic workflow endpoints as hardened, enterprise-ready Spring Boot services
• Implement security-by-design across all microservices: mTLS, OAuth2/JWT authorization, secrets management (Vault)

What you need

• 10–18 yrs of experience
• Java
• REST APIs
• Spring Boot
• Microservices
• Kafka
• Angular
• M.Sc or B.Tech or B.E. or B.Sc or BCA or M.Tech or MCA

Good to have

• Kubernetes
• Hibernate
• PostgreSQL
• MongoDB
• Redis
• Docker