(Senior) Kotlin Java Software Engineer Trading Platform (mfx)
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Job Summary
- Be part of a highly motivated cross-functional team building and operating Scalable Capitals Trading Platform.
- Design build and evolve business-critical services supporting the trading lifecyclefrom order intake and validation through execution status updates and post trade processing.
- Develop reliable scalable and observable backend services using Kotlin Java and Spring Boot in a distributed event-driven environment.
- Work with product operations risk and other engineering teams to translate complex trading processes into clear resilient software models and APIs.
- Build integrations with internal platforms and external trading venues ensuring robust processing of time-sensitive financial data.
- Take ownership from idea to production: contribute to architecture implementation testing deployment monitoring and continuous improvement.
- Help ensure the platform meets high standards for correctness performance availability security and auditability.
- Work in an autonomous agile team using modern software-development practices including code reviews automated testing continuous integration and delivery cloud-based infrastructure and infrastructure as code.
- Raise engineering standards by improving reliability automation observability developer experience and operational processes.
Qualifications :
- A university degree in computer science engineering or a comparable qualification.
- Strong professional experience building production backend services with Kotlin or Java and Spring Boot.
- Experience designing and operating distributed event-driven high-availability systems with clear API and service boundaries.
- Solid understanding of Domain-Driven Design and the ability to model complex business workflows in maintainable software.
- Demonstrated ability to work on latency-sensitive high-throughput systems including performance analysis monitoring capacity considerations and failure-mode design.
- Experience designing operating and optimising data persistence for backend services including relational databases such as PostgreSQL/MySQL and NoSQL databases such as DynamoDB.
- A strong engineering-quality mindset: clean secure testable documented maintainable code and ownership of services in production.
- Familiarity with cloud-native development and operations ideally AWS Docker Terraform CI/CD pipelines monitoring and observability tooling.
- Solid understanding of Domain-Driven Design and the ability to model complex business processes and lifecycle-driven workflows.
- Strong analytical skills and clear audience-appropriate communication with engineering product operations and business stakeholders.
- Experience with financial-market systems requiring strict operational controls and auditability is a strong plus.
Additional Information :
- Be part of one of the fastest-growing and most visible Fintech startups in Europe creating innovative services that have a substantial impact on the lives of our customers
- Work with an international diverse inclusive and ever-growing team that loves creating the best products for our clients
- Be productive with the latest hardware and tools
- Learn and grow by joining our in-house knowledge sharing or career development sessions and spending your individual Education Budget
- Learn and experience German culture first hand by joining our free German language classes
- International relocation support is provided if required
- Opportunity to work from abroad
- Benefit from an attractive compensation package and from the company pension scheme
- Monthly contribution of 50% for the Deutschland Jobticket
- Say goodbye to order commissions and say hello to your complimentary subscription of Scalable Capitals PRIME Broker
- Enjoy flexible and discounted sports activities with Urban Sports Club
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
About Company
Scalable Capital is a leading FinTech in Europe, bringing people and technology-based investment together. The company was founded in 2014 and has offices in Munich, Berlin and London. For private individuals, Scalable Capital offers a broker with a trading flat rate and interest and ... View more