Lead Java Backend Engineer (Core Trading Technology)

Overview

• Deutsche Bank is a leading player in electronic trading for Fixed Income and Currencies, with a strong presence across global markets
• Our trading platform is recognized for its advanced architecture, low-latency performance, and deep integration with market venues and internal analytics
• The technology stack supports mission-critical trading operations and is continuously evolving to meet the demands of a dynamic financial landscape

Responsibilities

• As a Lead Java Backend Engineer (f/m/x) you will be building high-performance backend systems for electronic trading in a latency-sensitive environment
• Working on business and functional requirements, technical analysis and design
• Prototyping new features, meeting business needs and solving challenging technical problems
• Contributing to the definition of the future state of the system architecture
• Reviewing other team member’s code and mentoring junior developers. Be ready to lead a sub-team
• Collaborating with QA team on test automation and with Dev Ops on continues SDLC and environment management improvements

Qualifications

• Excellent knowledge of core Java (collections, multi-threading, networking) – 5+ years
• Experience implementing fault-tolerant / load-balancing solutions, experience in performance optimisation of multi-threaded Java applications
• Good knowledge of Linux, basic knowledge of SQL relational databases solutions, good knowledge of messaging solutions
• Good math and strong knowledge of algorithms and complexity
• Good written and spoken English