Senior Software Engineer (Java) (f/m/x) – Trade Finance & Lending

Overview

Deutsche Bank Technology in Berlin
DB Technology is a global team of tech specialists, spread across multiple trading hubs and tech centres. We have a strong focus on promoting technical excellence – our engineers work at the forefront of financial services innovation using cutting-edge technologies.

Our Berlin location is our most recent addition to our global network of tech centres and growing strongly. We are committed to building a diverse workforce and to creating excellent opportunities for talented engineers and technologists. Our tech teams and business units use agile ways of working to create #GlobalHausbank solutions from our home market.

Trade Finance and Lending
Trade Finance and Lending (TF&L) is core and one of leading business departments in Corporate Bank working with clients around the globe. Trade Finance uses a set of techniques to mitigate and transfer trade risks to the financial sector, and/or to enable domestic and international trade flows. It focuses on supporting the physical flow of goods across borders while primarily using the goods, receivables and cash generated from the trade as the principal security.

The group is working on technology refresh of their IT platform to enable new services and products for customers as well as to achieve next level of business processes automation and reduce transaction costs.

Would you like to join a successful in-house technology team designing, building and rolling out into production its strategic platform for the TF&L business? The architecture covers a wide range of capabilities to support global TF&L business including but not limited to loan lifecycle management, collateral management, and related integrations with Cash, Treasury, Risk, and Finance landscape.

Responsibilities

Your Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and evolve TF&L Core Services (Access Control, Authentication, and Backend-for-Frontend APIs) as reusable building blocks adopted across TF&L projects.
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested Java code; build automated tests and collaborate with QA on test automation frameworks to ensure consistent quality.
• Partner with DevOps to improve CI/CD, SDLC automation, and environment management; contribute to observability, monitoring, and disaster recovery to support high availability (99% uptime during business hours).
• Work closely with product teams and business stakeholders to refine functional/non-functional requirements and deliver consistent core APIs and platform capabilities.
• Support platform modernization by analyzing and reverse-engineering legacy solutions and contributing to migration efforts, while staying hands-on in business delivery.

Skills and Experiences

Your Skills And Experiences

• Several years of professional experience as a Java engineer / senior software engineer, with strong knowledge of Core Java, JVM fundamentals, and common design patterns and frameworks (Kotlin or Scala experience is welcome).
• Hands-on experience building and operating backend services and APIs in a production environment, including monitoring/observability and high-availability practices.
• Experience with event and data platforms such as Kafka, data warehousing and analytics stacks, including columnar databases (e.g., ClickHouse) and in-memory data grids.
• Comfortable working in an Agile environment with fast-changing requirements and short delivery cycles; familiar with modern SDLC tooling (e.g., Jira, Bitbucket, Artifactory, TeamCity/CI/CD).
• Strong communication skills in English (written and spoken); experience collaborating with product, QA, and DevOps teams.
• JavaScript/TypeScript experience is a plus.

What We Offer

What We Offer

We provide you with a comprehensive portfolio of benefits and offerings to support both your private and professional needs.

• Emotionally and mentally balanced — a positive mind helps us master the challenges of everyday life; we offer consultation in difficult life situations as well as mental health awareness trainings.
• Physically thriving — we support you in staying physically fit through health check-ups, vaccination drives, and advice on healthy living and nutrition.
• Socially connected — networking opens up new perspectives and strengthens well-being; you can benefit from family service, fitness center access, flexible working arrangements, and a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion.
• Financially secure — pension plans, banking services, company bicycle or Deutschlandticket, and other offerings to support long-term financial security.

Since our offerings slightly vary across locations, please contact your recruiter with specific questions. This job is available in full and part-time. In case of any recruitment related questions, please get in touch with Kilian Weber. Contact Kilian Weber: .

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