Cheques- Senior Engineer - Assistant Vice President

Deutsche Bank • New York, NY

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

We are seeking a seasoned, hands-on Senior Engineer (AVP) with deep experience designing, building, and delivering complex, high‑performance enterprise applications. You will play a key role in architecting and implementing scalable, resilient Java-based solutions that support mission‑critical banking and payments platforms. This role blends deep technical expertise with engineering leadership, owning solutions end‑to‑end while mentoring developers and driving engineering best practices across the team.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science Engineering, or related fields required
• Strong hands-on development experience on Java/J2EE based Enterprise Applications
• Proven experience designing and building highly scalable, highly available, large‑scale monolithic banking applications
• Strong expertise in Java/J2EE technologies (EJB, Java Message Service (JMS)), Spring, and Spring Boot–based microservices, Angular, Postgres
• Hands‑on experience with web services (SOAP, REST), XML technologies, and relational databases such as Structured Query Language (SQL) and Oracle

Nice To Haves

• Experience working with application servers such as Tomcat and WebLogic
• Solid understanding of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices and supporting tools
• Ability to design and execute performance testing (e.g., load, spike, breakpoint, endurance) to evaluate application and service limits
• Experience orchestrating release workflows and implementing continuous integration/continuous deployment (or development) (CI/CD) pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, Bitbucket, uDeploy, Docker, and Kubernetes
• Domain expertise in Banking, Financial Services, or Payments, along with familiarity with Behavior Driven Development (or Design) (BDD)/ Test Driven Development (or Design) (TDD) methodologies, Cucumber, Java‑based test automation, and development and monitoring tools (e.g., IntelliJ/Eclipse, Splunk, AppDynamics, New Relic)

Responsibilities

• Work closely with engineers to design and implement high‑quality, scalable software solutions.
• Mentor and coach junior developers to strengthen technical capability and engineering discipline
• Provide strong engineering execution, technical direction, and architectural guidance to ensure alignment with the Bank’s technology strategy
• Conduct thorough code reviews to maintain high standards for code quality, performance, and maintainability
• Actively contribute to technical solution design and maintain end‑to‑end ownership of delivered technology, ensuring both functional and non‑functional requirements are met
• Diagnose, troubleshoot, and resolve complex technical issues in a timely and effective manner
• Partner closely with business analysts, architects, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into robust technical solutions

Benefits

• A hybrid working model, allowing for in-office / work from home flexibility
• generous vacation, personal and volunteer days
• Employee Resource Groups support an inclusive workplace for everyone and promote community engagement
• Competitive compensation packages including health and wellbeing benefits
• retirement savings plans
• parental leave
• family building benefits
• Educational resources
• matching gift and volunteer programs

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree