Principal Engineer (f/x/m)

Meyandy LLC; Frankfurt; Vor Ort; EUR 110.000 - 150.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Flexible hybrid work model

High ownership and real impact

Flat structures and fast decisioning

Zusammenfassung

spotixx, a Frankfurt-based FinTech, is expanding its engineering leadership to own and evolve the platform architecture. You will design data models, contracts and integration boundaries, while staying hands-on in high-risk areas. The role emphasizes security, scale, and collaboration with banks across Germany and Europe.

Fluent German and English are essential to interact with German banks. The position offers a flexible hybrid model (Frankfurt + remote) and meaningful, high-impact work in

Qualifikationen

• 8+ years of production software experience with systems design ownership.
• Fluent in German and English for engagement with banks.
• Experience delivering in large-enterprise contexts including security reviews and change control.
• Strong design skills across distributed systems, services, data, and integrations.
• Experience with AI-assisted building and coding agents is a plus.
• Ability to elevate engineers through design reviews and mentoring.
• Security-minded with secure-by-design mindset and data protection awareness.
• Regulated-industry experience in banking or FinTech is a bonus.

Aufgaben

• Own the platform's systems design including architecture, data models, contracts and integration boundaries.
• Stay hands-on through high-risk build phases and ship code from which the team learns.
• Set design standards and uphold through reviews and enforcement.
• Design for security and scale to withstand banking-grade load and scrutiny.
• Raise the team's technical output via direction, reviews and pairing.
• Build AI leverage with agentic workflows and guardrails for reliability.
• Represent us technically with customers in German and English during workshops and due diligence.
• Partner with senior management and your manager on strategy and prioritisation.

Kenntnisse

Distributed systems

Security architecture

Cloud experience

CI/CD

Python/FastAPI

React/TypeScript

MPC / privacy tech

Tools

GCP

AWS

Azure

IaC

Containers

CI/CD

OAuth/OIDC

Jobbeschreibung

spotixx is a Frankfurt-based European FinTech building technology for the regulated financial sector. Since 2019, we have grown into a team of 60+ professionals with deep roots in the German and European banking landscape, shaped by years of hands-on experience in fraud investigation and financial crime prevention. We specialize in Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and fraud detection, enabling secure, compliant data exchange between financial institutions. Using advanced data science and AI, we are helping shift the industry toward collaborative intelligence and more effective prevention. As a self-funded company, we focus on sustainable growth and real impact. With offices in Frankfurt and Wilhelmshaven and strong inbound demand, we are expanding our team. If you want to work on meaningful problems, grow with the company, and be part of a flexible, hybrid work environment, spotixx offers the opportunity to do just that.

Tasks

• Take ownership of the platform's systems design, including the architecture, data models, contracts, and integration boundaries, and the trade-offs behind them.
• Stay hands‑on through the highest-risk parts of the build, and ship code the team learns from.
• Set the design standard: the architectural, security, and verification patterns the team builds to, and the design reviews that uphold them.
• Design for security and scale, building systems that withstand banking‑grade load and scrutiny.
• Raise the technical output of the team through direction, design review, and pairing.
• Build AI leverage: agentic workflows with the evals and guardrails needed to ship reliably.
• Represent us technically with customers, including workshops and due diligence with bank architects, CISOs, and risk teams, in German and English.
• Partner with senior management and your manager on strategy and prioritisation.

Requirements

• A deeply experienced, hands‑on technologist, typically with 8+ years building production software, able to own systems design and still ship code others learn from.
• Fluent in German and English, both essential for our engagement with German banks.
• Large‑enterprise context: you have delivered systems inside a large corporate or for a vendor supplying one, and understand how enterprise architecture reviews, security assessments, and change control work.
• Excellent systems design skills, covering distributed systems, services, contracts, data, and integrations.
• AI‑forward: you already use coding agents and AI‑assisted building in your own work or personal projects.
• A track record of raising the engineers around you through influence, design review, and example.
• Senior‑management maturity: you translate technical risk into terms the business can act on.
• Credible and calm when bank architects and risk functions question design choices.
• Security‑minded: secure‑by‑design thinking, OAuth/OIDC, and data protection appropriate to banking.
• Rigorous about quality: you design for verifiability and verify rather than assume.
• Regulated‑industry experience, with banking or FinTech a major bonus.
• Cloud experience: GCP preferred, with AWS or Azure also welcome, plus familiarity with IaC, containers, and CI/CD.
• Nice to have: Python/FastAPI, React/TypeScript, the GCP stack, privacy‑enhancing technology or applied cryptography (MPC especially), multi‑tenant SaaS, and the anti‑financial‑crime domain.

Benefits

• Attractive compensation.
• Flexible hybrid work model (Frankfurt + home office within Germany).
• High ownership and real impact from day one.
• Flat structures that let the team move quickly.
• Collaborative, international team culture.
• Work on high‑impact products that help fight financial crime.
• Own the architecture of our core data‑sharing platform and build it hands‑on.

We welcome applications from all qualified people, as diversity enriches us.

Your perspective matters: regardless of gender, age, origin, religion, sexual orientation, or disability.

Applicants with disabilities will be given preference when equally qualified.

Mots-clés : Software Development.