Senior Front Office Engineer - Assistant Vice President

Join a front office engineering team building and evolving Deutsche Bank’s electronic trading platform for Fixed Income & Currencies. You’ll work across infrastructure, connectivity, pricing, risk, and order/routing services—partnering directly with traders, sales, quants, and product to deliver resilient, high throughput, real time capabilities.

Requirements

• Strong Core Java expertise (collections, concurrency/multi‐threading, networking, memory/GC tuning) with proven performance optimization of distributed services
• Hands‐on experience building real‐time systems (e.g., pricing, market data, risk, order flow) and working with messaging / event streaming (Solace, Kafka, Java Message Service (JMS)/IBM Message Queue (MQ) or similar)
• Solid Linux fundamentals; working knowledge of SQL/relational databases; familiarity with caches and asynchronous patterns
• Proficiency with engineering tooling across the SDLC: Git, Maven, CI/CD (Jenkins/TeamCity), artifact repositories (e.g., Artifactory), issue tracking (Jira)
• Practical Agile team experience (Scrum/Kanban), with strong communication and stakeholder collaboration in a fast‐moving front‐office context
• Domain knowledge in Fixed Income & Derivatives and familiarity with market‐data/trading ecosystems
• Experience designing and operating highly available microservices; cloud exposure (Global Control Programme (GCP) or similar)
• Comfortable improving delivery standards, tooling, and working practices; able to analyze services/components and drive iterative improvements
• Ownership mindset, analytical problem‐solving, and the ability to build consensus across technology and business teams

Benefits

• Generous vacation, personal and volunteer days
• Competitive compensation packages
• Health and wellbeing benefits
• Retirement savings plans
• Parental leave, and family building benefits
• Educational resources
• Matching gift and volunteer programs