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Discover your future at Citi
Working at Citi is far more than just a job. A career with us means joining a team of approximately 219,000 dedicated people from around the globe. At Citi, you’ll have the opportunity to grow your career, give back to your community and make a real impact.
Job Overview
We are looking for hands-on full-stack engineering team leads with extensive experience on Oracle PL/SQL and are passionate about solving business problems through innovation and engineering practices. The team lead plays a meaningful role in crafting and maintaining the strategic partnership between business needs and technology delivery within the construct of an Agile team. The role is to own an Agile team’s efforts to plan, design, develop, and launch efficient systems and solutions in support of our core organizational functions. In addition to managing members of an agile team, there is also an expectation to contribute to the codebase and deliver solutions against the sprint-level commitments.
Responsibilities:
- Code contributing leader of an Agile team, working to deliver sprint goals, as well as conduct personnel duties for team (e.g., performance evaluations, hiring, promotions and disciplinary actions).
- Design, document, and develop world-class enterprise applications leveraging the latest technologies and design patterns.
- Provide strategic influence and exercise control over team resources, budget management and planning, while monitoring end results.
- Utilize in-depth knowledge of concepts and procedures within your own area and basic knowledge of other areas to resolve issues.
- Ensure essential procedures are followed and contribute to defining standards.
- Integrate in-depth knowledge of applications development with overall technology function to achieve established goals.
- Provide evaluative judgement based on analysis of facts in complicated, unique, and dynamic situations including drawing from internal and external sources.
- Influence and negotiate with senior leaders across functions, as well as communicate with external parties, as necessary.
- Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency, as well as effectively supervise the activity of others and create accountability with those who fail to maintain these standards.
Required Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer/Developer using Oracle Pl/SQL
- Experience mentoring and providing technical leadership for teams of 5 or more developers
- Multiple years of experience with software engineering best practices (unit testing, automation, design patterns, peer review, etc.)
- Clear understanding of Data Structures and Object Oriented Principles using Java
- Multiple years of experience architecting and building horizontally scalable, highly available, highly resilient, and low latency applications
- Multiple years of experience with Cloud-native development and Container Orchestration tools (Serverless, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, etc.).
- Multiple years of experience on Service Oriented and MicroServices architectures, including REST and GraphQL implementations
- Multiple years of experience with frameworks like Spring Boot, Quarkus, Micronaut, or Vert.x
- Exposure to Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, either on-premise or public cloud (i.e., Tekton, Harness, CircleCI, Cloudbees Jenkins, etc.)
- Multiple years of experience with agile and iterative software delivery
- Exposure to Cloud infrastructure both on-premise and public cloud (i.e., OpenShift, AWS, etc.)
- Exposure to event-driven design and architecture (i.e., Kafka, Spark Flink, etc.)
- Exposure to API Management tools
- Exposure to Infrastructure as Code tools (i.e., Terraform, Cloudformation, etc.)
- Exposure to Security, Observability, and Monitoring tools (i.e., Grafana Prometheus, Splunk, ELK, CloudWatch, etc.)
- Exposure to database concepts (RDBMS, NoSQL) and web-based technologies (Angular/React) is a plus
Education:
Bachelor degree or equivalent work experience-
Job Family Group:
Technology-
Job Family:
Applications Development-
Time Type:
Full time-
Primary Location:
Tampa Florida United States-
Primary Location Full Time Salary Range:
$113,840.00 - $170,760.00
In addition to salary, Citi’s offerings may also include, for eligible employees, discretionary and formulaic incentive and retention awards. Citi offers competitive employee benefits, including: medical, dental & vision coverage; 401(k); life, accident, and disability insurance; and wellness programs. Citi also offers paid time off packages, including planned time off (vacation), unplanned time off (sick leave), and paid holidays. For additional information regarding Citi employee benefits, please visit citibenefits.com. Available offerings may vary by jurisdiction, job level, and date of hire.
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Most Relevant Skills
Please see the requirements listed above.-
Other Relevant Skills
For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.-
Anticipated Posting Close Date:
Nov 19, 2026-
Automated Processing and AI
We use automated processing, including artificial intelligence, for our legitimate business interests (or our reasonable and appropriate business purposes) to identify and align the candidate's skills and abilities with a specific job opening. Additionally, if you so choose, or consent, we can match your skills and abilities to other suitable roles at Citi.
Importantly, all our hiring processes and decisions, including determining your suitability for a role, are conducted, checked, and decided by individuals. Our automated processing and AI do not involve relying on automatic or autonomous decision-making. Please refer to any Jurisdictional Considerations, with specific provisions for your country (where relevant) for further details.
Illinois residents – AI Notice and Right (opens in new window)
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Citi is an equal opportunity employer, and qualified candidates will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Discover your future at Citi
Working at Citi is far more than just a job. A career with us means joining a team of approximately 219,000 dedicated people from around the globe. At Citi, you’ll have the opportunity to grow your career, give back to your community and make a real impact.
Job Overview
We are looking for hands-on full-stack engineering team leads with extensive experience on Oracle PL/SQL and are passionate about solving business problems through innovation and engineering practices. The team lead plays a meaningful role in crafting and maintaining the strategic partnership between business needs and technology delivery within the construct of an Agile team. The role is to own an Agile team’s efforts to plan, design, develop, and launch efficient systems and solutions in support of our core organizational functions. In addition to managing members of an agile team, there is also an expectation to contribute to the codebase and deliver solutions against the sprint-level commitments.
Responsibilities:
- Code contributing leader of an Agile team, working to deliver sprint goals, as well as conduct personnel duties for team (e.g., performance evaluations, hiring, promotions and disciplinary actions).
- Design, document, and develop world-class enterprise applications leveraging the latest technologies and design patterns.
- Provide strategic influence and exercise control over team resources, budget management and planning, while monitoring end results.
- Utilize in-depth knowledge of concepts and procedures within your own area and basic knowledge of other areas to resolve issues.
- Ensure essential procedures are followed and contribute to defining standards.
- Integrate in-depth knowledge of applications development with overall technology function to achieve established goals.
- Provide evaluative judgement based on analysis of facts in complicated, unique, and dynamic situations including drawing from internal and external sources.
- Influence and negotiate with senior leaders across functions, as well as communicate with external parties, as necessary.
- Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency, as well as effectively supervise the activity of others and create accountability with those who fail to maintain these standards.
Required Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer/Developer using Oracle Pl/SQL
- Experience mentoring and providing technical leadership for teams of 5 or more developers
- Multiple years of experience with software engineering best practices (unit testing, automation, design patterns, peer review, etc.)
- Clear understanding of Data Structures and Object Oriented Principles using Java
- Multiple years of experience architecting and building horizontally scalable, highly available, highly resilient, and low latency applications
- Multiple years of experience with Cloud-native development and Container Orchestration tools (Serverless, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, etc.).
- Multiple years of experience on Service Oriented and MicroServices architectures, including REST and GraphQL implementations
- Multiple years of experience with frameworks like Spring Boot, Quarkus, Micronaut, or Vert.x
- Exposure to Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, either on-premise or public cloud (i.e., Tekton, Harness, CircleCI, Cloudbees Jenkins, etc.)
- Multiple years of experience with agile and iterative software delivery
- Exposure to Cloud infrastructure both on-premise and public cloud (i.e., OpenShift, AWS, etc.)
- Exposure to event-driven design and architecture (i.e., Kafka, Spark Flink, etc.)
- Exposure to API Management tools
- Exposure to Infrastructure as Code tools (i.e., Terraform, Cloudformation, etc.)
- Exposure to Security, Observability, and Monitoring tools (i.e., Grafana Prometheus, Splunk, ELK, CloudWatch, etc.)
- Exposure to database concepts (RDBMS, NoSQL) and web-based technologies (Angular/React) is a plus
Education:
Bachelor degree or equivalent work experience-
Job Family Group:
Technology-
Job Family:
Applications Development-
Time Type:
Full time-
Primary Location:
Tampa Florida United States-
Primary Location Full Time Salary Range:
$113,840.00 - $170,760.00
In addition to salary, Citi’s offerings may also include, for eligible employees, discretionary and formulaic incentive and retention awards. Citi offers competitive employee benefits, including: medical, dental & vision coverage; 401(k); life, accident, and disability insurance; and wellness programs. Citi also offers paid time off packages, including planned time off (vacation), unplanned time off (sick leave), and paid holidays. For additional information regarding Citi employee benefits, please visit citibenefits.com. Available offerings may vary by jurisdiction, job level, and date of hire.
-
Most Relevant Skills
Please see the requirements listed above.-
Other Relevant Skills
For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.-
Anticipated Posting Close Date:
Nov 19, 2026-
Automated Processing and AI
We use automated processing, including artificial intelligence, for our legitimate business interests (or our reasonable and appropriate business purposes) to identify and align the candidate's skills and abilities with a specific job opening. Additionally, if you so choose, or consent, we can match your skills and abilities to other suitable roles at Citi.
Importantly, all our hiring processes and decisions, including determining your suitability for a role, are conducted, checked, and decided by individuals. Our automated processing and AI do not involve relying on automatic or autonomous decision-making. Please refer to any Jurisdictional Considerations, with specific provisions for your country (where relevant) for further details.
Illinois residents – AI Notice and Right (opens in new window)
-
Citi is an equal opportunity employer, and qualified candidates will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Investment & Asset Management
- Banking & Financial Services
- Insurance
- Media & Entertainment
- Technology & Software
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in assistant vice president software engineer jobs.
- 8 or more years of software engineering experience with at least 2 years in a leadership role
- Proficiency in one or more of Java, Python, Go, or C++ in production environments
- Experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems or microservices architectures
- Proven ability to manage, mentor, and grow engineering teams of five or more engineers
- Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud at an architectural level
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related technical field
Tips for Your Assistant Vice President Software Engineer Job Search
Align your resume to leadership scope
AVP software engineer roles expect you to show team impact, not just individual output. Quantify the number of engineers you led, the scale of systems you owned, and the cross-functional initiatives you drove. Hiring managers read for organizational reach, not just technical depth.
Highlight P&L and budget ownership
Many AVP postings require familiarity with vendor contracts, cloud spend, or headcount planning. If you've managed a technology budget or contributed to cost optimization, name the scope explicitly on your resume. This separates AVP candidates from senior individual contributors.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists assistant vice president software engineer openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Target postings by domain specialty
AVP roles in fintech, healthtech, and enterprise SaaS each weight different skills heavily. A fintech posting often requires real-time systems experience, while a healthtech role may demand HIPAA-compliant architecture. Read the full posting before applying and tailor your summary accordingly.
Prepare a system design narrative
AVP-level technical interviews almost always include a system design round with an executive audience. Practice explaining your largest architecture decision in plain language, covering the business problem, the trade-offs you evaluated, and the outcome. Avoid jargon-heavy walkthroughs that assume deep domain familiarity.
Negotiate total compensation, not just base
AVP offers at financial institutions and large technology companies often include equity vesting schedules, sign-on bonuses, and deferred compensation tied to retention. Before accepting, ask for the full total compensation breakdown and clarify vesting cliffs so you can compare offers on equal terms.
Assistant Vice President Software Engineer Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most assistant vice president software engineers?
Citi, Information Technology Senior Management Forum, and State Street are hiring the most assistant vice president software engineers right now, with openings concentrated in New York, Texas, and New Jersey, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Financial services firms and large technology companies account for the greatest share of active postings at this seniority level.
How many assistant vice president software engineer jobs are remote?
About 80% of assistant vice president software engineer openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting the seniority's expectation of some on-site collaboration. Platform engineering, backend architecture, and cloud infrastructure sub-specialties tend to have the highest concentration of remote-eligible postings compared to roles requiring regular stakeholder or executive face time.
How do you become an assistant vice president software engineer?
Most people reach this level by moving from senior software engineer to a staff or principal role, then taking on direct reports or a team lead function. Building a record of delivering complex cross-team projects, owning a critical production system, and demonstrating executive communication skills are the clearest signals that hiring managers look for when evaluating candidates for an AVP title.
Can you get hired as an assistant vice president software engineer without prior management experience?
Yes, but you'll need a strong substitute signal. Some employers, particularly at financial institutions, fill AVP software engineer roles with deep individual contributors who own critical systems rather than people managers. Emphasize technical scope, cross-functional influence, and any informal mentorship or project leadership you've held to offset a thinner direct-management background.
What does the assistant vice president software engineer interview process look like?
The process typically runs four to six rounds and includes a recruiter screen, a technical coding assessment, one or more system design interviews, a behavioral panel with engineering leadership, and a final conversation with a VP or managing director. Financial services firms often add a business impact or case study round to assess how you connect technical decisions to organizational outcomes.
Where can I find and apply to assistant vice president software engineer jobs?
You can find and apply to assistant vice president software engineer jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Find roles that match your background and apply directly to each listing from the page.
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