Backend Senior 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 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;
• In-depth understanding of software quality and maintainability, including participation in QA automation process;
• SQL, Bash, Linux basic knowledge
• Excellent communication skills in English.

Java:

• Demonstrable knowledge of Java SE fundamentals, including the Collections Framework, Generics, and Exception Handling;
• Hands-on experience with modern Java features (Java 17 or higher), including Streams API, Lambda expressions, and Records;
• Good understanding of multithreading, concurrency patterns, and memory management (JVM internals);
• Proven ability to write testable code using JUnit and Mockito for comprehensive unit and integration testing
• Ability to deliver clean, maintainable, and efficient Java code that adheres to industry best practices
• Ability to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks through systematic debugging and JVM tuning
• Ability to conduct thorough code reviews

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.

Throughout your journey within our team, we expect you to develop, demonstrate and apply both soft and technical 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.  Active