Lead Engineer: Real-Time Fixed Income Platform

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

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.