Job Description
For additional information, please review .We're looking for a talented Server-Side Tech Lead to help build our next-generation Developer Experience (DevEx) platform at Citi using Kotlin. You'll be joining a small, high-impact team, shaping the daily lives of our 50,000 engineers globally by building the platform where engineers can see all parts of the software development life cycle, such as code reviews, JIRAS and deployments, all tied together into a workflow in near real-time. This is an exciting technical challenge for an ambitious candidate.Begun designing a systems architecture that takes into consideration our future near real-time requirements and the ability to link that data together into a workflow, such Aligned the team on architectural principles, ways of working and system requirements. For example: you might choose dependency inversion for the code structure; opting for Availability and Partition tolerance over Consistency data; we also may decide that we want data to appear on the UI less than 1 second after it was received.Using your architectural principles and requirements, you'll have solved hard engineering problems, making the pros and cons visible and gaining consensus from the team.You will have bought additional technologies online (e.g., Kafka, Postgres, etc.) as needed to realize the architectural vision, meeting the requirements agreed upon by month 3.Strong server-side engineering skills: Kotlin, building and consuming RESTful APIs, asynchronous programming. Proficiency with relational and/or NoSQL databases: PostgreSQL, MongoDB.Experience with message queuing systems: Apache Kafka. Comfortable collaborating with product, design, and UI engineers, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver robust backend solutions.You'll shape the daily experience of tens of thousands of engineers at one of the largest engineering organizations in the world by building the resilient systems they rely on.You'll get to use your strong backend engineering skills on hard problems to build a shape a greenfield platform