Lead Engineer (f/m/x) – Corporate Bank Technology - Commercial Banking Digital Client Channels

Position Overview

About the job

Deutsche Bank Technology in Berlin

DB Technology is a global team of tech specialists across trading hubs and tech centres. We focus on technical excellence and work at the forefront of financial‑services innovation using modern, cloud‑native technologies.

Commercial Banking Tribe Domain

Join the Commercial Bank Tribe Domain, serving the specific needs of small and medium‑sized enterprise clients in Germany—an area of strategic investment within Corporate Bank. We drive the digital transformation of our clients across brands, building the Business Banking platform, digitising sales and service processes, and automating our application landscape in the cloud. Our products span native mobile apps and web channels.

Q23

Lead Engineer – Digital Client Channels

As Lead Engineer (m/f/x) you combine people leadership with hands‑on technical depth across native mobile, web and backend engineering. You will steward our engineering standards, mentor teams, and collaborate closely with senior stakeholders to deliver reliable, secure, and delightful client experiences at scale.

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Your key responsibilities

• Lead & grow engineers: provide line management for engineers across multi‑disciplinary squads (hiring, coaching, performance, career paths) and nurture an inclusive, high‑bar engineering culture.

• Hands‑on technical leadership: set technical direction and contribute code/reviews for either native mobile (iOS/Android), Web/Angular or backend services (Kotlin), guiding system design, reliability, security, and cost efficiency on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

• Platform & delivery excellence: own CI/CD with GitHub & GitHub Actions, testing strategy, observability (SLIs/SLOs), and incident/operational readiness across mobile and backend components.

• Stakeholder & cross‑tribe coordination: partner with Product, Design, Risk/Security, and senior management to align roadmaps, manage dependencies, and ensure compliant, timely delivery.

• Architecture & quality governance: review and approve designs, challenge proposals, and standardise patterns (APIs, eventing, data privacy) to keep the estate simple, secure, and evolvable.

Your skills and experiences

• Engineering depth: several years in software engineering (incl. some years with line management) with a strong track record in either native mobile (iOS/Swift, Android/Kotlin), Angular Web / Typescript or backend (Java/Kotlin); proven ability to work across platform boundaries.

• Cloud & DevOps: practical experience operating workloads on GCP (e.g., GKE/Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, Cloud SQL) plus GitHub & GitHub Actions for CI/CD, testing, and release automation.

• Delivery in regulated environments: solid understanding of secure coding, data protection, compliance, and risk controls; you balance speed with safety and reliability.

• Communication & stakeholder management: excellent to native English is required; German (good working proficiency) is a strong plus; you articulate trade‑offs and influence at VP/C‑level.

• Hands‑on credibility: willing and able to pass a backend or frontend coding assessment; you debug, prototype, and make pragmatic build‑vs‑buy decisions.

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 Binh Bui.

Contact Binh Bui: +49 30 34073081

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