Lead Engineer

Deutsche Bank; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid Working

Competitive salary

Non-contributory pension

30 days holiday + bank holidays

Life Assurance & Private Healthcare

Flexible benefits

CSR volunteering leave

Job summary

Deutsche Bank in London seeks a Lead Engineer to drive multi-year platform modernization for Rates and Credit Fixed Income tech. You will architect scalable, real-time applications and work with stakeholders to deliver efficient features and maintainable systems.

The role involves championing best practices, a hybrid work model, and collaboration across teams to sustain a high-performing technology landscape for the next decade.

Qualifications

• Proven experience building complex, high-performance Java applications.
• Deep knowledge of modern front-end tooling and reactive programming models.
• Hands-on experience with low-latency, event-driven UIs handling large data sets.
• Strong understanding of distributed system design and messaging technologies.
• Experience designing and deploying RESTful and event-driven APIs with SQL DBs.

Responsibilities

• Develop real-time, high-performance micro-services to support trading workflows.
• Drive full-stack design with front-end colleagues to deliver end-to-end solutions.
• Engage with business stakeholders to gather requirements and deliver impactful features.
• Champion engineering best practices across CI/CD, testing and code quality.
• Contribute to platform modernization and guide tooling adoption.

Skills

Java programming

Distributed systems

RESTful APIs

CI/CD & testing

Front-end tooling

Low-latency UI

Tools

Vite

Nx

Playwright

WebSockets

SSE

Rx

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Solace

Kubernetes

Job description

Job Description:

Job Title

Lead Engineer

Location

London

Corporate Title

Vice President

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.

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

• 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

Your skills and experience

• Proven experience building complex, high-performance applications using modern Java, with understanding of concurrency, memory management and reactive programming models
• Deep expertise in building complex, high-performance applications using modern front-end tooling (e.g. vite, nx, playwright)
• Hands‑on experience delivering low-latency, event-driven UIs that handle large, rapidly changing data sets, leveraging technologies such as WebSockets, SSE and Rx
• Strong understanding of distributed system design principles, event-driven architectures, and technologies such as Solace, Kafka or RabbitMQ
• 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 environment
• Track record of promoting engineering excellence through test automation, CI/CD pipelines, code reviews and architectural decision-making to ensure maintainable and scalable systems.

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 The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality 2025 for six 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.