Senior Associate - Lead Software Engineer

Job description

Your area of work:D7 is the platform of Clearstream that offers innovative services to its customers for the issuance of financial securities such as shares, warrants and funds. In other words without the Issuance services, there would be nothing to trade on the German financial market, and the supply will get short for the international markets too. The D7 IT Team develops the next-generation software that enables our business colleagues and customers to boost volume and processing efficiency and as a result to increase revenue and decrease operational costs.As a Software Engineer, you will be responsible for designing and implementing new and existing components to fulfil the functional and technical requirements. The components need to support fail-over, be highly scalable, secure and resilient under heavy load. You will be involved in all the aspects of the SDLC starting with initial business requirements until the production deployment and including 2nd level production support.Your responsibilities:Communicate with business owners, business operation people and business analysts from the different departments to understand and shape the requirementsUnderstand the potential as well as the limitations of the existing processes, services and used platformsDesign, develop, and maintain responsive and high-performance user interfaces for the D7 platform using ReactJS and modern JavaScript/TypeScript technologiesEnsure that the solution and its implementation comply with the DBG SDLC standardsPlan and execute the transition from test into production contribute to 2nd level production supportStay open-minded and understand the broad context of implementing and operating software components in a highly regulated environmentYour profile:University degree in computer science6+ years overall professional experience in IT with focus on frontend and DevOpsExpertise in modern JavaScript (ES6+), and extensive hands-on experience with ReactJS and its ecosystem (Redux, Hooks, etc.).Strong proficiency in HTML5, CSS3, and preprocessors (SASS/LESS), with an understanding of responsive design principles.Extensive experience with CI/CD tools, particularly Jenkins and OpenShift including pipeline scripting (Groovy, Shell).Familiarity with containerization technologies (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes) is a must.Proficiency with version control systems, specifically Git.Experience with RESTful APIs and asynchronous programming.Excellent communication skills You explain the IT topics in a manner understandable to people without an IT background. You do not hesitate to ask questions, express your doubts or kindly challenge ideas during discussions. You have no problem admitting and accepting mistakes.High degree of self-dependence You are self-motivated, looking for opportunities to improve things or your own skills constantly. You take responsibility and are motivated to deliver.Team player You are able to work with people of different backgrounds and personalities; you are happy to help and share your expertise. You appreciate the skills of others and ask for opinion or review easily.Excellent written and spoken English skills (German, French, Luxembourgish, or Czech is a plus)Previous experience in the financial sectorSolid experience in configuring, optimizing, and maintaining NGINX as a web server, reverse proxy, and load balancer.Experience with backend development in Java/Spring bootExperience in BPMN modellingExperience with relational databases (PostgreSQL)Team-leading experienceUnderstanding the advantages and limitations of test automationKnowledge of CamundaExperience with Kafka/MQ/OAQ