Lead Backend Engineer (f/m/x) – Corporate Bank Technology - Channel Applications

Position Overview

Deutsche Bank Technology in Berlin

DB Technology is a global team of tech specialists, spread across multiple trading hubs and tech centres. We have a strong focus on promoting technical excellence – our engineers work at the forefront of financial services innovation using cutting-edge technologies.

Our Berlin location is our most recent addition to our global network of tech centres and growing strongly. We are committed to building a diverse workforce and to creating excellent opportunities for talented engineers and technologists. Our tech teams and business units use agile ways of working to create #GlobalHausbank solutions from our home market.

About the Team

Corporate Bank Technology has embarked on a multi-year technology refresh program that includes revitalization of "Channel" applications for payment initiation. You will be working on driving the development of global payment initiation platform that has React based micro frontends backed by Java powered micro-services deployed in a containerized environment. The platform uses event streaming over Kafka and varied datastores such as PostgreSQL, Oracle, HBase, MongoDB amongst other open-source software.

You'll collaborate with other engineers on the platform embracing agile practices to incrementally add functionality to the platform, with a sharp focus on automation.  You will partner with business and technology managers to define modules and enhancements to the application stack that provides Deutsche Bank's clients ability to initiate payments in real time and access to their account balances & statements in near real time. You will enable the digital environment that helps our people share their knowledge, expertise, and real passion for our business. Deutsche Bank is investing heavily in technology, which means we are investing in you. Join us here, and you’ll constantly be looking ahead.

What You’ll Do

• Design and develop new functionality on Java. Frontend/Full-stack development is a plus

• Partner with UI/UX Design Team, Architects, Business Analysts, and Stakeholders situated in multiple regions and time-zones; at varying capacity to understand requirements

• Be ready to learn and dig into details of corporate bank cash business to grow as subject matter expert

• Design and implement subsystems and intersystem protocols, drive longer-term platform architectural vision.

• Design and setup test automation approaches from scratch and improve existing processes/approaches together with QA team

• Maintain hygiene, risk, control, and stability at the core of every delivery. Investigate and fix production incidents, drive stability and monitoring improvements.

Skills You’ll Need

• Several years of experience developing Java based Microservices (preferably using Spring Boot framework)

• Proven track record in high-load distributed system design and fault tolerant applications, algorithms

• Working with non-relation datastores such as MongoDB, HBase and relational datastore such as Oracle

• Knowledge of Linux, understanding and experience of containers and cloud solutions.

• Frontend development experience using React JS, TypeScript, CSS, Node.JS and Redux is a plus

• People leadership experience is a plus

• Experience with modern SDLC tools (Git, JIRA, Artifactory, Jenkins/TeamCity) and project management is a plus

What we offer

We provide you with a comprehensive portfolio of benefits and offerings to support both, your private and professional needs.

• Emotionally and mentally balanced
  A positive mind helps us master the challenges of everyday life – both professionally and privately. We offer consultation in difficult life situations as well as mental health awareness trainings.

• Physically thriving
  We support you in staying physically fit through an offering to maintain personal health and a professional environment. You can benefit from health check-ups; vaccination drives as well as advice on healthy living and nutrition.

• Socially connected
  Networking opens up new perspectives, helps us thrive professionally and personally as well as strengthens our self-confidence and well-being. You can benefit from PME family service, FitnessCenter Job, flexible working (e.g parttime, hybrid working, job tandem) as well as an extensive culture of diversity, equity and inclusion.

• Financially secure
  We provide you with financial security not only during your active career but also for the future. You can benefit from offerings such as pension plans, banking services, company bicycle or “Deutschlandticket”.

Since our offerings slightly vary across locations, please contact your recruiter with specific questions.

This job is available in full and parttime.

In case of any recruitment related questions, please get in touch with Luisa Moderzinski.

Contact Luisa Moderzinski: +49 151 565 16413

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