Principal Software Developer (f/m/d) - Market Data

Solactive AG; Frankfurt; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

30 days vacation

Modern office space

Regular staff parties

Corporate Benefits

Fruit baskets

Job summary

Solactive AG in Frankfurt is seeking a Senior Software Developer for the Market Data team. You will design and implement data pipelines, APIs, and ETL processes, collaborating with analysts and engineers to deliver scalable, low-latency data solutions.

You will mentor others, apply modern patterns, and work in a hybrid environment with strong emphasis on accuracy and availability. Excellent English communication is required.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in software development or data engineering; 5+ years with Python.
• Strong understanding of microservice architectures and design patterns.
• Experience with ETL, data pipelines, and high-performance APIs.
• Fluent English; strong communication and mentoring ability.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement data processing pipelines and ETL processes.
• Build high-performance APIs and streaming solutions for clients and data vendors.
• Develop a data landscape serving as the single source of truth for data.
• Provide in-house consultancy on data access, storage, and best practices.
• Collaborate with analysts and engineers to deliver scalable solutions.

Skills

Python programming

Data engineering

Mentoring

English proficiency

Communication skills

Tools

Docker

Git

SQL/NoSQL

SQLAlchemy/JPA/Hibernate

GCP

Job description

Company Description

Solactive AG is a FinTech company operating globally and growing at a fast pace, headquartered in Frankfurt. Since 2007, we develop tailor-made and multi-asset class index solutions for ETFs and other index-linked investment products for the leading global investment banks and asset managers as our clients. Flexibility, efficiency, and providing the highest quality are at the heart and soul of our business philosophy. We are now hiring!

Job Overview

Our Market Data team forms an essential link between our business and infrastructure teams: it defines and implements business processes in data pipelines, monitors existing services, and thereby provides the best service to our customers. As a Senior Software Developer in our Market Data team, you will be working on a broad set of real-world problems. Highly effective data management, resilience, and fail-over strategies are some of our most important topics. In close collaboration with our business analysts and data engineers, you will create high-performance data processing solutions that scale using emerging technologies and approaches and help us define new best practices.

Our continuous business growth and high requirements on accuracy, performance, and availability will provide you with a lot of engineering challenges and opportunities to contribute, to learn, and to grow as part of our team.

You love solving complex problems, building performant, scalable, low latency, and highly available services. Then we can’t wait to meet you!

Your Tasks

• Designing and implementing challenging projects to develop our data processing pipeline.


• Building up a data landscape that acts as the single source of all relevant data in the long run.


• Engineering ETL processes.


• Developing high performance APIs and streaming solutions to our clients and data vendors.


• Being an in-house consultant for best track, store, and access data.

Your Profile

• 8+ years of software development, data engineering, or relevant experience, including at least 5 years of in-depth Python experience.


• Software Engineering: good understanding of microservice architectures, Liskov’s Substitution Principle, design patterns, and dynamic dispatch.


• Databases: experience with at least one SQL/NoSQL database, such as MongoDB, PostgreSQL, or MySQL, including schema definition and evolution, as well as ORM frameworks such as SQLAlchemy, JPA, or Hibernate.


• Cloud / Cloud-native development: Google Cloud Platform (GCP).


• CI/CD: ability to define build pipelines and perform, validate, and monitor deployments.


• Good understanding of microservice architectures.


• Ability to define Docker images according to the Twelve-Factor App methodology.


• Git: ability to use Git from the command line and apply version-control management practices (e.g., Gitflow, trunk-based development).


• Strong technical mentoring skills.


• Full professional proficiency in English.


• Communication: ability to illustrate ideas and concepts with figurative examples to both stakeholders and developers.


• Ability to perceive the business domain in terms of mathematical structures is appreciated.

Our Offer

• Be part of the Solactive family, a motivated team with an international setting.


• Get to know the dynamics of an established, successful FinTech company.


• Free choice of your gears to work comfortably and effectively.


• Experience a modern start-up culture with a flat hierarchy.


• Seize the opportunity to develop personally, take over responsibility and maintain direct customer contact from day one.


• Flexible work environment with a hybrid work model and 30 annual vacation days.


• Receive numerous benefits (e.g. Regular staff parties, team events, access to Corporate Benefits, modern office space, activity room, free beverages and fruit baskets).