Senior Front Office Engineer - Assistant Vice President

Job Description:

Job Title Senior Front Office Engineer

Corporate Title Assistant Vice President

Location Cary, NC

Who we are

In short – an essential part of Deutsche Bank’s technology solution, developing applications for key business areas.

Our Technologists drive Cloud, Cyber and business technology strategy while transforming it within a robust, hands-on engineering culture. Learning is a key element of our people strategy, and we have a variety of options for you to develop professionally. Our approach to the future of work champions flexibility and is rooted in the understanding that there have been dramatic shifts in the ways we work.

Having first established a presence in the Americas in the 19th century, Deutsche Bank opened its US technology center in Cary, North Carolina in 2009. Learn more about us here.

Overview

Join a front office engineering team building and evolving Deutsche Bank’s electronic trading platform for Fixed Income & Currencies. You’ll work across infrastructure, connectivity, pricing, risk, and order/routing services—partnering directly with traders, sales, quants, and product to deliver resilient, high throughput, real time capabilities. As part of our global engineering team, you’ll contribute across the full product lifecycle—from architecture and implementation to production support—with a primary focus on optimizing high performance, low latency, Java based back end components that power our global trading operations.

What We Offer You

• A diverse and inclusive environment that embraces change, innovation, and collaboration

• A hybrid working model with up to 60% work from home, allowing for in-office / work from home flexibility, generous vacation, personal and volunteer days, a commitment to Corporate Social Responsibility

• Employee Resource Groups support an inclusive workplace for everyone and promote community engagement

• Access to a strong network of Communities of Practice connecting you to colleagues with shared interests and values

• Competitive compensation packages including health and wellbeing benefits, retirement savings plans, parental leave, and family building benefits, educational resources, matching gift and volunteer programs

What You’ll Do

• Design, build, and operate real time, event driven microservices for pricing, RFQ, trade capture, and risk—optimizing for low latency and high throughput

• Engage business stakeholders (traders, sales, quants) to translate desk needs into technical designs and iterative deliveries for front office workflows

• Apply solid engineering and software development life cycle (SDLC) practices: requirements/analysis, design patterns, code reviews, automated testing, secure by design implementation, and controlled releases

• Continuously tune performance (GC, threading, IO, network) and improve resiliency (fault tolerance, graceful degradation, back pressure)

• Partner with Quality Assurance (QA) on test automation and with DevOps/ Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) on continuous integration/continuous deployment (or development) (CI/CD), observability, and production reliability (including on call rotations); investigate incidents and lead remediation to ensure stable environments

• Collaborate with a global engineering team to develop modern solution

Skills You’ll Need

• Strong Core Java expertise (collections, concurrency/multi‑threading, networking, memory/GC tuning) with proven performance optimization of distributed services

• Hands‑on experience building real‑time systems (e.g., pricing, market data, risk, order flow) and working with messaging / event streaming (Solace, Kafka, Java Message Service (JMS)/IBM Message Queue (MQ) or similar)

• Solid Linux fundamentals; working knowledge of SQL/relational databases; familiarity with caches and asynchronous patterns

• Proficiency with engineering tooling across the SDLC: Git, Maven, CI/CD (Jenkins/TeamCity), artifact repositories (e.g., Artifactory), issue tracking (Jira), Test discipline: test driven development (or design) (TDD)/ behavior driven development (or design) (BDD) using frameworks like JUnit and Cucumber

• Practical Agile team experience (Scrum/Kanban), with strong communication and stakeholder collaboration in a fast‑moving front‑office context

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