Lead Engineer
Posted 6 days ago by Deutsche Bank AG
Job Title: Lead Engineer
Location: London
Corporate Title: Vice President
You will play a key role in transforming the Rates and Credit Fixed Income technology landscape. As part of our multi-year platform modernization project, you will be responsible for building a suite of new, real-time, high-performance applications supporting various trading workflows.
You will be involved in architecting solutions across the stack, encouraging best practices, and working closely with business stakeholders to build a maintainable, operationally efficient, and scalable platform for the future.
What we offer you- Hybrid Working - enabling eligible employees to work remotely part of the time
- Competitive salary and non-contributory pension
- 30 days' holiday plus bank holidays, with options to purchase additional days
- Life Assurance and Private Healthcare for you and your family
- Flexible benefits including retail discounts, Bike4Work scheme, and gym benefits
- Support for CSR activities and 2 days' volunteering leave per year
- Develop modern, real-time, high-performance micro-services for core trading workflows
- Design end-to-end solutions in collaboration with front-end engineers
- Engage with business stakeholders to gather requirements and deliver impactful features
- Promote engineering best practices in distributed systems, testing, CI/CD, and code quality
- Contribute to platform modernization and influence technology direction
- Experience building complex, high-performance Java applications (Kotlin experience is a bonus)
- Expertise in modern front-end tools (e.g., vite, nx, playwright)
- Experience with low-latency, event-driven UIs using WebSockets, SSE, Rx
- Knowledge of distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and messaging technologies (Kafka, RabbitMQ)
- Proficiency in RESTful APIs, SQL, relational databases, and container orchestration (Kubernetes)
- Commitment to engineering excellence through automation, CI/CD, and architectural decisions
- Career development and training
- Expert coaching and support
- Culture of continuous learning
- Flexible benefits tailored to your needs
- Inclusive environment with reasonable accommodations for disabilities
Deutsche Bank is a leading German bank with a strong European presence and a global network. We are committed to diversity, inclusion, and a positive work environment. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and promote fairness and equality.