Java Engineer - Fixed Income Pricing and Analytics - Vice President

Deutsche Bank • New York, NY

1d • $125,000 - $222,500 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Java Engineer will play a key role in transforming Deutsche Bank’s Rates and Credit Fixed Income technology landscape as part of a multi-year modernization program. The role will help build a next-generation pricing and analytics platform for traders to price products and manage risk. Working in a small, cross-functional team, the engineer will deliver real-time, high-performance, cloud-native services in frequent increments and progressively replace legacy capabilities. The position will contribute to target architecture, champion engineering best practices, and partner directly with traders, quantitative analysts, and other business stakeholders to build a scalable platform designed for long-term use.

The role is based in New York and follows the Bank’s hybrid working model, with an expectation of working in the New York office in accordance with that model.

Requirements

• Proven expertise building complex, high-performance applications in modern Java, including concurrency, memory management, garbage collection tuning, and reactive programming.
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems and event-driven architecture, including messaging technologies such as Solace or Kafka and distributed caching.
• Experience designing REST, gRPC, and streaming APIs, with solid SQL and relational database design skills.
• Experience deploying and running containerized services on Kubernetes in production, using observability tools such as OpenTelemetry.
• Proven technical leadership in large-scale modernization programs using iterative Agile delivery, test automation, continuous integration and delivery, code reviews, and sound architectural decisions.
• Proven ability to use AI tools to enhance productivity and optimize workflows while applying critical judgment to ensure responsible and ethical use of data and AI outputs.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Fixed Income products, electronic trading, pricing, or market data.
• Experience with Kotlin and Spring Boot.
• Ability to communicate complex technical topics clearly to technical and business stakeholders.
• Curiosity and willingness to build knowledge of Fixed Income pricing and trading workflows.
• A collaborative approach to working in small, cross-functional teams and incorporating feedback from users.

Responsibilities

• Design and build real-time, low-latency Java services supporting Rates and Credit pricing, axes, risk, and analytics workflows.
• Break down a complex legacy landscape into well-defined deliverables and use Agile practices to release modern capabilities to traders incrementally.
• Partner with traders, quantitative analysts, and business stakeholders to understand pricing workflows, refine requirements, and deliver high-impact features.
• Collaborate with front-end engineers to design end-to-end solutions, including streaming APIs for real-time trading user interfaces.
• Improve engineering quality through code reviews, automated testing, continuous integration and delivery, and observability; own services from design through production.
• Influence the technical direction of the platform and support adoption of modern tools, frameworks, and AI-assisted development practices.
• Translate pricing, risk, and analytics needs into clear technical priorities and incremental outcomes.
• Collaborate with quantitative analysts and front-end engineers to shape end-to-end architecture, interfaces, and delivery plans.
• Mentor engineers, guide architectural decisions, and promote consistent engineering standards across the modernization program.

Benefits

• Hybrid working model with in-office and work-from-home flexibility.
• 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.
• Employee Resource Groups that support an inclusive workplace and promote community engagement.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed