Backend Lead Engineer, (f/m/x)

DB Global Technology is Deutsche Bank’s technology centre in Central and Eastern Europe. Since its set-up in 2013, Bucharest Technology Centre (BEX) has constantly proven its capacity to deliver global technology products and services, playing a dynamic role in the Bank’s technology transformation.

We have a robust, hands-on engineering culture dedicated to continuous learning, knowledge-sharing, technical skill development and networking. We are an essential part of the Bank’s technology platform and develop applications for many important business areas.

The team is made up of enthusiastic professionals that work in an international environment adapting to ever-evolving context and learning new technologies and parts of Deutsche Banks’ businesses. We oversee a high-frequency, low-latency Order and Execution Management system, supporting Private Bank business lines across multiple regions. We are not afraid of getting our hands dirty for whatever needs to be done to provide best product to our users and enable them to execute their tasks swiftly and reliably.

Responsibilities:

• A creative approach towards solving technical problems fast, as part of an L3 Rota: intra-day and on-call;
• Desire and ability to learn, debug and investigate across complex system landscape;
• Strong analytical skills;
• Demonstrable leading contributions in SW Development;
• In-depth understanding of SDLC;
• Ability to work with modern frameworks and tools, ability to analyse and learn;
• Understanding of asynchronous communication patterns and event-driven architecture;
• Knowledge of TeamCity/Jenkins, Maven, Gradle, GIT, GCP, Kubernetes;
• SQL, Bash, Linux basic knowledge;
• Design Patterns;
• Architecture Patterns;
• Excellent communication skills in English.

Nice to have:

• Experience in Capital Markets, preferably Trading systems;
• Message brokers: JMS/Kafka/RabbitMq/IBMMQ/Solace;
• Experience with supporting live critical systems;
• FIX Protocol.

Skills:

Thinking:

• Employ a range of strategies to gather relevant information across a broad range of sources validating credibility as a matter of course as a basis to create solutions.
• Use different diagnostic concepts to build a rounded understanding of situations from more than one perspective and evaluates multiple solutions concurrently, impartially assessing them against a range of engineering, business and strategic criteria.

Engaging:

• Build long-term professional relationships and engineering networks and facilitate interaction across teams to generate well-rounded solutions.
• Develop self on an on-going basis and build capability of individuals and teams through appropriate learning activities, development of best practice, and development strategies as well as recognizing and encouraging efforts of individuals to develop themselves.

Influencing:

• Be a visible and positive engineering role model who inspires trust and confidence in others.
• Effectively and confidently communicate complex messages, in a clear and concise manner, adjusting your message to fit different audiences.
• Influence others by fully understanding the concerns and perspectives of others.

Achieving:

• Build plans and prioritize work for self and others in line with strategic goals, look for and remove barriers to progress.
• Focus on iteratively increasing the flow of business value across the complete value stream.
• Use commercial factors and engage with the business to ensure engineering solutions are delivering significant long-term value.
• Enable experimentation and fast learning.

Designing:

• Take a lead in the design process, designing more complex solutions autonomously, considering architectural aspects, end user and non-functional requirements.
• Increasingly provide design support to other team members and drive design tools and techniques across the team.

Delivering:

• Provide leadership and guidance for delivery across their organization.
• Be an SME in one or more technical domains and have a track record for delivery of impactful & innovative business solutions whilst displaying commercial acumen.

Operating:

• Have strong knowledge of how to operate and improve solutions and services.
• Manage incidents from root cause to resolution.  Feed back into engineering design and delivery to prevent recurrence of issues and reduce mean time to recovery.
• Seek to minimize toil by automation.

Controlling:

• Have extensive knowledge of security, risk and control policies and mitigating solutions/design patterns and use this knowledge to design solutions and services with security controls embedded, specifically engineered as mitigation against threats.
• Perform risk assessments for your and your team’s solutions or designs.

Well-being & Benefits

Emotionally and mentally balanced: We support you in dealing with life crises, maintaining stability through illness, and maintaining good mental health.

• Empowering managers who value your ideas and decisions. Show your positive attitude, determination, and open-mindedness.
• A professional, passionate, and fun workplace.
• A modern office with fun and relaxing areas to boost creativity.
• Continuous learning culture with coaching and support from team experts.
• A culture where you can openly speak about mental health.

Physically thriving: We support you in managing your physical health by taking appropriate preventive measures and providing a workplace that helps you thrive. For example, Private healthcare and life insurance with premium benefits for you and discounts for your loved ones, healthier ways of working and check-ups.

Socially connected: We strongly believe in collaboration, inclusion and feeling connected to open up new perspectives and strengthen our self-confidence and well-being.

• 24 days holiday, loyalty days, and bank holidays (including weekdays for weekend bank holidays).
• Hybrid working model with 40% remote work.
• Options for flexible working hours.
• Enjoy retailer discounts, cultural and CSR activities, workshops, and more.

Financially secure: We support you in meeting personal financial goals during your active career and for the future.

• Competitive income, performance-based promotions, and a sense of purpose.
• Meal vouchers, bonuses for referrals

Interested in more: discover what our employees value in the Well-being & Benefits hub!

We strive for a culture in which we are empowered to excel together every day. This includes acting responsibly, thinking commercially, taking initiative and working collaboratively.