Lead Full Stack Software Engineer
Citi
AngularApacheCloudJ2EEJavaJavaScriptJenkinsJMeterJUnitMavenMockitoMongoDB+6 more
Senior Software Engineer
5
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Houston • Texas • 🇺🇸 United States
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Senior
Tech Stack
AnsibleAWSDockerDynamoDBJavaScriptLaravelMySQLPHPPython
About the role
- Ideate, develop, release, and maintain features across our core system.
- Work directly with large data pools that power analysis, historical tracking, and client management.
- Make key technical decisions in open forums, guiding the team toward maintainability and growth.
- Handle migrations and refactors to stay up to date with modern tools and best practices.
- Own integrations with external services and middleware for data ingest, processing, and automation.
- Improve observability, performance, and technical mapping across the platform.
- Take initiative on everything from quick bug fixes to major re-architecture efforts.
- Use your expertise to empower teammates and refine development practices.
- Collaborate with stakeholders across the business, communicating clearly about trade-offs and solutions.
- Enhance productivity with AI-assisted tools such as JetBrains, Cursor, Claude Code, and CodeRabbit.
- Stay current with the latest frameworks, design patterns, and development practices.
- **Bonus points if you bring experience with AI/agentic workflows (tool use, retrieval pipelines, orchestration) or energy industry expertise**
Requirements
- PHP 8.x, Laravel (Eloquent, Queues/Jobs, Events, Policies, Resources, Migrations)
- MySQL (indexes, query plans, transactions, deadlock diagnosis, migration strategies)
- Python (scripting automations & AWS Lambdas)
- Classic Web (HTML, CSS, JavaScript)
- AWS (RDS MySQL, Lambda, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, ECS, Step Functions, EventBridge, etc.)
- Bonus: AWS ML (Athena/SageMaker w/ Jupyter Notebooks)
- Containers & IaC (Docker, Ansible)
- CI/CD (GitHub Actions for build/test/deploy automation)
- Observability & QA (Sentry, CloudWatch, metrics/logs/traces)
- APIs & Integrations (REST best practices, OAuth2/JWT, webhook design, rate limiting)
- Systems thinking with clear boundaries and contracts
- Event-driven patterns (async processing, backpressure strategies)
- Safe refactor and migration strategies (blue/green, canary, expand-and-contract, feature toggles)
- Performance & reliability (caching, read/write splitting, query tuning)
- Security by default (least privilege IAM, secrets management, PII handling)
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Hard skills
PHP 8.xLaravelMySQLPythonAWSDockerAnsibleGitHub ActionsSentryREST
Soft skills
collaborationcommunicationinitiativeleadershipproblem-solvingtechnical decision-makingmentorshipobservability improvementstakeholder engagementteam empowerment
