Securities Settlements Engineering Developer, Vice President at Citi
Jersey City, NJ
$142,320–$213,480from the description
Jul 27, 2026
Jersey City, NJ
Jul 29, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A hands-on software engineering role at Citi focused on modernizing the settlements technology stack for international and domestic payments. The engineer will design and build high-throughput, low-latency microservices using Kotlin, Java, and Python, while championing trunk-based development, TDD/BDD, CI/CD, and secure coding practices. The role also involves mentoring junior engineers and collaborating with architects and product teams on distributed system design.
Senior level · 10+ years · New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 390 people in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 300–620
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
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Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $170,499 (middle half $133,523–$210,499). This posting is about at that midpoint.
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Why we read it this way (6)
The Must-Have Skills section lists Kotlin, Python, and Java together as the primary programming languages; they are treated as a group of interchangeable options per the posting's framing, but all three are named explicitly so each is captured separately.
AWS, Kubernetes, and Docker appear under Must-Have Skills with the qualifier 'Familiarity with modern cloud-native technologies (AWS, Kubernetes, Docker)' — the word 'familiarity' is softer than typical gate language, but the skills sit firmly within the required qualifications block, so they are marked as required.
Kafka and Solace are listed as alternatives for the event-driven/messaging requirement ('Kafka or Solace').
The 'Preferred to have' section mentions AI & ML and Citi Engineering Excellence Standards; AI/ML is captured as preferred. 'Citi Engineering Excellence Standards' names no specific technology and is omitted.
Good-to-Have items (event-driven architecture, performance tuning/observability, Agile frameworks) are marked preferred; event-driven architecture and distributed systems experience are already implied by the must-have microservices/Kafka requirements, so only observability and performance tuning are added as distinct preferred skills.
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