Lead Engineer

Deutsche Bank; Field; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Deutsche Bank is leading a multi-year platform modernization in fixed income technology. You will design and deploy real-time, high-performance micro-services for rates and credit trading, collaborating with frontend engineers and business stakeholders to deliver scalable, maintainable solutions.

The role emphasizes building RESTful and event-driven APIs, advanced Java concepts, and modern frontend tooling to enable low-latency data delivery and robust platforms for the next decade.

Qualifications

• Solid experience designing, building and deploying RESTful and event-driven APIs with SQL and relational DB design.
• Proven experience building complex, high-performance Java applications with concurrency and memory management.
• Hands-on delivering low-latency, event-driven UIs using WebSockets, SSE and Rx.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, event-driven architectures and tools like Solace, Kafka or RabbitMQ.
• Experience with modern front-end tooling (Vite, Nx, Playwright) and promoting excellence via CI/CD and code reviews.

Responsibilities

• Build real-time, high-performance micro-services for rates and credit trading workflows.
• Architect end-to-end solutions across the stack with frontend collaboration.
• Gather requirements from business stakeholders and rapidly deliver impactful features.
• Promote engineering excellence through test automation, CI/CD, and reviews.
• Drive platform modernization and tool adoption across the team.

Skills

Real-time systems

RESTful APIs

Event-driven design

Java

Distributed systems

CI/CD

Test automation

WebSockets

Reactive programming

Tools

Kubernetes

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Solace

Vite

Nx

Playwright

Job description

• You will play a key role in the transformation of Rates and Credit Fixed Income technology landscape
• As part of our multi-year platform modernisation project, you will be responsible for building a suite of new, real-time, high-performance applications supporting various trading workflows
• You will be involved in architecting solutions across the stack, encouraging best practices and working closely with Business stakeholders to build a maintainable, operationally efficient and scalable platform to last the next decade
• Develop a suite of modern, real-time, high-performance micro-services to support core rates and credit trading workflows
• Drive full-stack solution design – collaborate with front-end engineers to design and deliver end-to-end solutions
• Engage directly with business stakeholders to gather requirements, understand workflows and rapidly deliver impactful features that improve business efficiency
• Champion engineering best practices – promote best practices in distributed systems architecture, testing, CI/CD and code quality. Participate in code reviews to ensure high engineering standards across the team
• Contribute to platform modernization and strategy – play an important role in the modernisation of the fixed income tech stack by influencing platform direction, and driving adoption of modern tooling and frameworks

Solid experience in designing, building and deploying RESTful and event-driven APIs with good knowledge of SQL and relational database design, and familiarity in deploying services using containerization and orchestration platforms like Kubernetes in a production environmentProven experience building complex, high-performance applications using modern Java, with understanding of concurrency, memory management and reactive programming modelsHands-on experience delivering low-latency, event-driven UIs that handle large, rapidly changing data sets, leveraging technologies such as WebSockets, SSE and RxStrong understanding of distributed system design principles, event-driven architectures, and technologies such as Solace, Kafka or RabbitMQDeep expertise in building complex, high-performance applications using modern front-end tooling (e.g. vite, nx, playwright)Track record of promoting engineering excellence through test automation, CI/CD pipelines, code reviews and architectural decision-making to ensure maintainable and scalable systems