Engineer - Trade Finance and Lending (TFandL)

Australian Investors Association; London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking an Engineer for Trade Finance and Lending, a pivotal role in modernizing legacy systems into cloud-compliant architectures. You will tackle complex challenges, delivering innovative solutions while collaborating with business stakeholders. This dynamic position emphasizes continuous learning and offers a hybrid working model, competitive salary, and extensive benefits, including healthcare and generous holiday allowances. Join a forward-thinking team dedicated to excellence and impactful technology solutions.

Benefits

Hybrid Working

30 Days Holiday

Life Assurance

Private Healthcare

Flexible Benefits

Volunteering Leave

Qualifications

• Proven experience in Java application development and Spring framework.
• Good understanding of relational databases and Oracle PL/SQL.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop high-quality solutions for corporate lending products.
• Automate delivery pipelines and manage system stability.

Skills

Java Application Development

Spring Framework

JavaScript

Test Automation

Oracle PL/SQL

Relational Databases

SDLC Tool Stack

Tools

Bitbucket

Jira

Artifactory

TeamCity

Job description

Engineer - Trade Finance and Lending (TF&L)

Job ID:R0356941 Full/Part-Time: Full-time Regular/Temporary: Regular Listed: 2025-04-29 Location: London

Position Overview

Job Title Engineer - Trade Finance and Lending (TF&L)

Location London

Corporate Title Associate

Trade Finance and Lending (TF&L) is a key business division with the Corporate Bank, serving global clients with innovative financial solutions. This team is undergoing a significant transformation, modernizing legacy platforms into cloud-compliant, event-driven architectures with reusable technology stacks to automate and enhance business processes.

As an Engineer, you will take on a pivotal role in this journey. You will tackle the challenge of working with a complex, large-scale legacy codebase with minimal documentation, using your technical expertise to transform systems in line with strategic architecture, build team knowledge, and create lasting impact.

You’ll deliver solutions that modernize and improve the system while ensuring stability and performance. By analysing current state, you’ll implement innovative solutions and share your knowledge to help foster a culture of collaboration and continuous learning. You will have high standards for excellence, demonstrating best practices in software development.

You will develop strong relationships with business stakeholders, product owners, and other engineering teams to understand and solve business problems using technology. Together with the team you will design and deliver top-class engineering solutions to satisfy complex and diverse business goals, ensuring alignment and steer towards strategic architecture.

What we’ll offer you

A healthy, engaged and well-supported workforce are better equipped to do their best work and, more importantly, enjoy their lives inside and outside the workplace. That’s why we are committed to providing an environment with your development and wellbeing at its centre.

You can expect:

• Hybrid Working - we understand that employee expectations and preferences are changing. We have implemented a model that enables eligible employees to work remotely for a part of their working time and reach a working pattern that works for them
• Competitive salary and non-contributory pension
• 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase additional days
• Life Assurance and Private Healthcare for you and your family
• A range of flexible benefits including Retail Discounts, a Bike4Work scheme and Gym benefits
• The opportunity to support a wide ranging CSR programme + 2 days’ volunteering leave per year

Your key responsibilities

• Designing & developing high-quality solutions for risk management of corporate lending products
• Driving continuous improvement on process, tools and techniques
• Solving complex problems and deliver effective, practical solutions
• Supporting the day-to-day stability of the platforms you develop, prioritise and manage incidents
• Automating delivery pipelines, so that systems are always ready to deploy
• Seeking ways to improve your application’s performance and code quality, ensuring architecture supports business requirements

Your skills and experience

• Proven experience in Java application development using the Spring framework
• Exposure to front-end technologies such as JavaScript and test automation using Cucumber or similar
• Experienced developer in complex, business-facing applications
• Good understanding of relational databases, including Oracle and Oracle PL/SQL
• Solid understanding of the modern SDLC tool stack, including Bitbucket, Jira, Artifactory, TeamCity, and similar platforms

How we’ll support you

• Training and development to help you excel in your career
• Coaching and support from experts in your team
• A culture of continuous learning to aid progression
• A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs
• We value diversity and as an equal opportunities’ employer, we make reasonable adjustments for those with a disability such as the provision of assistive equipment if required (e.g. screen readers, assistive hearing devices, adapted keyboards)

About us

Deutsche Bank is the leading German bank with strong European roots and a global network. Click here to see what we do.

Deutsche Bank in the UK is proud to have been named in The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality 2024 for five consecutive years. Additionally, we have been awarded a Gold Award from Stonewall and named in their Top 100 Employers 2024 for our work supporting LGBTQ+ inclusion.

We strive for a culture in which we are empowered to excel together every day. This includes acting responsibly, thinking commercially, taking initiative and working collaboratively.
Together we share and celebrate the successes of our people. Together we are Deutsche Bank Group.
We welcome applications from all people and promote a positive, fair and inclusive work environment.