Associate Vice President - Senior Lead Software Engineer - Python Backend [T500-28576]

Deutsche Börse Group; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Deutsche Börse Group in India (Hyderabad) seeks a Senior Software Engineer to join the Data as a Service (DaaS) Operations team within the CTO domain. You will develop cloud and hybrid backend solutions for market data distribution and analytics, focusing on low-latency event-driven systems and secure, scalable architectures.

Responsibilities include designing scalable RESTful APIs, integrating with Google Cloud, and ensuring adherence to regulatory standards.

Qualifications

• University degree in Computer Science, Information Systems Technology or Business Informatics.
• 10+ years of relevant IT experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop cloud and hybrid backend solutions for market data distribution and data analytics.
• Analyze requirements for strategic initiatives and implement via existing platforms and processes.
• Ensure integration with enterprise architecture, IT security, and compliance standards.
• Design and implement scalable, low-latency backend services for event-driven messaging and streaming.
• Integrate services workloads in Google Cloud (GCP) environment.
• Review and validate technical designs from an architectural perspective.
• Build high-quality, maintainable code with low defect density.
• Prepare development/testing environments for unit tests and perform integration tests.
• Document technical designs and support knowledge transfer to junior engineers.
• Collaborate to deliver runnable, scalable systems and respond to operational requirements.
• Present constructive solutions to problems and drive improvements.

Skills

Python

FastAPI

REST API design

AsyncIO

SQLAlchemy

PostgreSQL

MySQL

NoSQL

OAuth2 / JWT

OpenAPI/Swagger

TDD

Docker

Kubernetes

Kafka / Pub/Sub

RBAC/ABAC

dbt / Airflow

Elasticsearch

GitHub Actions / CI/CD

Cloud (GCP/AWS/Azure)

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems Technology or Business Informatics

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

Job description

Headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany, Deutsche Börse Group is a leading international exchange organization and market infrastructure provider. They empower investors, financial institutions, and companies by facilitating access to global capital markets.

Their India centre is located in Hyderabad, serves as a key strategic hub and comprises India’s top-tier tech talent. They focus on crafting advanced IT solutions that elevate market infrastructure and services. Deutsche Börse Group in India is composed of a team of capital market engineers forming the backbone of financial markets worldwide.

Division/section:

• DBAG, CTO, Data as a Service, DaaS Operations

Your area of work:

As part of Deutsche Börse Group’s (DBG) expanding operations in Hyderabad, you will join the team responsible for the reliable, secure, and efficient operation of platforms operated by Data as a Service department within the CTO area of Deutsche Börse Group. These platforms are central to DBG’s data product strategy, enabling internal and external clients to access, publish, and manage digital products.

As a Senior Software Engineer you should have the skills to develop large and / or complex programs, incl. design, coding and unit testing. As part of test responsibilities, the Software Engineer defines and creates unit test cases, executes unit test activities and reports on progress.

You will ensure compliance with regulatory and security standards, and continuous improvement in service quality, supporting DBG’s global digital transformation.

Your responsibilities:

• Your main task includes development (cloud and hybrid approaches) based on challenging technical requirements and in compliance with applicable regulations and standards in the area of market data distribution and data analytics.
• Furthermore, you will analyze the requirements of strategic initiatives incl. specification and implementation of the identified requirements based on existing platforms and processes incl. early access to new technology trends and their adoption.
• You will ensure the integration capability of your solution into the existing enterprise architecture in close coordination with the IT Enterprise Architect and the IT Security Officer.
• You are involved in planning, conception and implementation of scalable and high-performance backend solutions for low-latency event-driven messaging and streaming.
• You actively participate in the integration of the services resp. workloads in Google Cloud (GCP) landscape.
• Review/Confirm Technical System Design, also from an architectural point of view
• Build High Quality Code (the code meets the requirements, the code has a low density of defects, the code is easy to understand, the code is easy to change)
• Prepare Development and Testing Environment for unit tests
• Unit test the implementation elements
• Perform Component Integration Tests and Software Delivery
• Consolidate Technical Documentation
• Build and integrate the system
• Cooperate with others to shape the implemented and executable systems
• Implement changes under consideration of unit specific operations requirements
• Knowledge transfer/support junior software engineers
• Report and elevate any problems in a timely manner.
• Present constructive solutions

Your profile:

• You have successfully completed your university degree in Computer Science, Information Systems Technology or Business Informatics and have at least 10 years of relevant professional experience in information technology / IT architecture.
• Strong hands-on experience in Python application development using FastAPI and related backend frameworks.
• Expertise in designing and developing scalable RESTful APIs and microservices architectures using FastAPI.
• Experience with asynchronous programming concepts (AsyncIO), API performance optimization, and low-latency backend services.
• Proficiency with ORM frameworks such as SQLAlchemy and database technologies including PostgreSQL, MySQL, and NoSQL solutions.
• Experience implementing authentication and authorization mechanisms including OAuth2, JWT, OpenID Connect, and API security best practices.
• Familiarity with API documentation standards using OpenAPI/Swagger and automated API lifecycle management.
• Strong knowledge of software design patterns, object-oriented programming, test-driven development (TDD), and clean code principles.
• Experience with PyTest, unit testing, integration testing, and automated quality assurance.
• Experience containerizing Python applications using Docker and deploying workloads on Kubernetes/GKE.
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures and messaging platforms such as Kafka, Google Pub/Sub or RabbitMQ.
• Experience designing RBAC/ABAC authorization models and policy-driven multi-tenant access control (e.g., OPA, Casbin).
• Experience with ETL/ELT pipeline design and data transformation frameworks (e.g., dbt, Apache Airflow, Cloud Dataflow).
• Familiarity with analytical data modeling, data cube structures, and reporting engine integration (e.g., Superset, Metabase).
• Experience implementing workflow engines or state machine patterns for complex business process orchestration.
• Understanding of financial and billing domain logic including invoicing, reconciliation, accrual, and revenue forecasting.
• Experience with compliance or reconciliation logic, rule engine design, and data comparison algorithms.
• Familiarity with Elasticsearch or equivalent for full-text and faceted search across large datasets.
• Experience with SAP or ERP system integration for commercial and reporting data sources.
• Experience designing notification and alerting mechanisms (email, in-app, push, webhooks).
• Familiarity with document storage, retrieval, and attachment handling in cloud-native environments.
• Familiarity with GitHub Actions and CI/CD pipelines.
• Understanding of AI/ML concepts and integration.
• Experience in developing RAG and LLM-based chatbox.
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack).
• You have profound knowledge of computer systems, software architectures, data structures, automation, and programming and professional experience in software development – ideally in a financial services area.
• You have very good comprehension, analytical thinking and a high willingness to learn.
• You have fundamental knowledge of cloud technologies and experience with at least one of the cloud platforms GCP, AWS or Azure.
• Good knowledge of English, both spoken and written.