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DWS Group · 4 months ago

Senior Front Office Engineer - Assistant Vice President

Cary, 3000 CentreGreen Way

Full-time

Hybrid

Mid Level

$100K/yr - $142K/yr

Deutsche Bank is a key player in the financial services industry, and they are seeking a Senior Front Office Engineer to join their team. The role involves building and evolving the electronic trading platform for Fixed Income & Currencies, collaborating with various stakeholders to optimize high-performance, low-latency back-end components.

Asset ManagementFinanceFinancial Services

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

Qualification

Core JavaReal-time systemsMicroservicesLinux fundamentalsSQL databasesAgile experienceStakeholder collaborationAnalytical problem-solvingOwnership mindset

Required

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

Preferred

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

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