Senior Front Office Engineer - Assistant Vice President

Deutsche Bank•Cary, NC

9d•Hybrid

About The Position

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. As part of our global engineering team, you’ll contribute across the full product lifecycle—from architecture and implementation to production support—with a primary focus on optimizing high performance, low latency, Java based back end components that power our global trading operations.

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), Test discipline: test driven development (or design) (TDD)/ behavior driven development (or design) (BDD) using frameworks like JUnit and Cucumber
Practical Agile team experience (Scrum/Kanban), with strong communication and stakeholder collaboration in a fast‑moving front‑office context

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

Design, build, and operate real time, event driven microservices for pricing, RFQ, trade capture, and risk—optimizing for low latency and high throughput
Engage business stakeholders (traders, sales, quants) to translate desk needs into technical designs and iterative deliveries for front office workflows
Apply solid engineering and software development life cycle (SDLC) practices: requirements/analysis, design patterns, code reviews, automated testing, secure by design implementation, and controlled releases
Continuously tune performance (GC, threading, IO, network) and improve resiliency (fault tolerance, graceful degradation, back pressure)
Partner with Quality Assurance (QA) on test automation and with DevOps/ Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) on continuous integration/continuous deployment (or development) (CI/CD), observability, and production reliability (including on call rotations); investigate incidents and lead remediation to ensure stable environments
Collaborate with a global engineering team to develop modern solution

Benefits

A diverse and inclusive environment that embraces change, innovation, and collaboration
A hybrid working model with up to 60% work from home, allowing for in-office / work from home flexibility, generous vacation, personal and volunteer days, a commitment to Corporate Social Responsibility
Employee Resource Groups support an inclusive workplace for everyone and promote community engagement
Access to a strong network of Communities of Practice connecting you to colleagues with shared interests and values
Competitive compensation packages including health and wellbeing benefits, retirement savings plans, parental leave, and family building benefits, educational resources, matching gift and volunteer programs

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