Backend Senior Engineer

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 SW Development experience;
• 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
• Excellent communication skills in English.

Nice to have:

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

Skills:

Thinking:

• Seek out relevant information from a number of different sources and validate the information credibility as a basis for solutions.
• Use existing concepts and problem solving processes and generates workable alternatives and does so at different times (serially rather than in parallel) from a personal perspective.

Engaging:

• Actively listen and use open questions to understand the views of others. Seek to achieve common consensus on topics and issues.
• Seek out opportunities to collaborate, contribute to communities, and actively develop self as well as help others to develop skills, capabilities, and best practice.

Influencing:

• Influence through strong, fact and benefit-based proposals.
• Conduct clear communication that is understood by many audiences.
• Make decisions quickly, based on information to hand, and therefore demonstrate confidence in your views and position. 

Achieving:

• Be responsive to issues and take necessary action and follow planned activities effectively.
• Consider how technology can create business value and consider cost in delivering solutions.  Actively experiment to learn.

Designing:

• Design solutions with limited supervision using common design patterns and a range of design tools & techniques.
• Conduct reviews with peers to ensure designs are fit for purpose, flexible, extensible, re-usable and compliant with all relevant DB design standards.

Delivering:

• Deliver high quality complex solutions end to end autonomously across a range of technologies.
• Influence standards, working practices, tools and solutions across the team and be emerging as an expert in one or more technical domains.
• Drive automation of the delivery process.
• Positively impact team effectiveness.

Operating:

• Have a good working knowledge of operate solutions and services and identify areas to minimize toil.
• Undertake investigations and increasingly lead remediation; analyze services and components.

Controlling:

• Recognize the key elements of security, risk and control, and investigate and report on issues and potential risk events within the engineering designs and solutions in your area.
• Continue to learn and consequently strengthen your designs & solutions.

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.