Senior Backend Engineer

Deutsche Bank; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Leave policy

Parental leave (gender neutral)

Childcare reimbursement

Certifications sponsorship

Employee Assistance Program

Health insurance for you and depends

Life insurance

Health screening

Job summary

Deutsche Bank in Bengaluru, India seeks a Senior Engineer (Backend), AVP to lead architecture and delivery of high-performance backend systems. You will design components, drive adoption of best practices, and mentor teams while hands-on coding across Java/Kotlin and related tech.

The role emphasizes microservices, CI/CD, and scalable data solutions, with opportunities to shape architecture and collaborate across functions. A demanding but rewarding environment awaits.

Qualifications

• Strong backend architecture and design experience.
• Hands-on with Java/Kotlin and Spring.
• Experience in data engineering and high-performance SQL.
• Proficient in CI/CD and container-native delivery.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead the feature team, collaborating to refine stories and design solutions.
• Use BDD techniques with users, analysts, developers and testers.
• Rapid prototype development.
• Write clean, maintainable code with pride.
• Adopt test-driven development and refactor continuously.
• Work across UI, services and databases.
• Act as a generalizing specialist.
• Define and evolve component architectures and contribute to decisions.
• Ensure reliable, production-ready software.
• Take turns on-call for 3rd line support.
• Help team build, test and release software quickly with minimal waste.
• Develop and maintain a highly automated CD pipeline.
• Cultivate a culture of learning and continuous improvement.

Skills

API design

Domain-driven design

CQRS

Event Sourcing

Microservices

SQL proficiency

REST/GraphQL

AI tool usage

Tools

Java / Kotlin

Spring / Spring Boot

Maven

PHP

Redis

Elasticsearch

Github Actions

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

Helm

Apigee

SSL certificates

Oracle 10G

PostgreSQL

Job description

Senior Engineer(Backend), AVP

Location: Bangalore, India

Role Description

A seasoned technical leader with software engineering background to improve functional performance and help deliver Divisional business goals. Key responsibilities of this role include active participation in the design of their solution components, investigating re-use, ensuring that solutions are fit for purpose and maintainable, and can be integrated successfully into the overall solution and environment with clear, robust and well tested deployments. A person who’s hands on would fit the team quite well

What we’ll offer you

• Best in class leave policy
• Gender neutral parental leaves
• 100% reimbursement under childcare assistance benefit (gender neutral)
• Sponsorship for Industry relevant certifications and education
• Employee Assistance Program for you and your family members
• Comprehensive Hospitalization Insurance for you and your dependents
• Accident and Term life Insurance
• Complementary Health screening for 35 yrs. and above

Your key responsibilities

• Lead the feature team, collaborating with others to understand requirements, analyze and refine stories, design solutions, implement them, test them and support them in production
• Use BDD techniques, collaborating closely with users, analysts, developers and other testers. Make sure we are building the right thing.
• Rapid prototype development
• Write code and write it well. Be proud to call yourself a programmer.
• Use test driven development, write clean code and refactor constantly. Make sure we are building the thing right.
• Be ready to work on a range of technologies and components, including user interfaces, services and databases.
• Act as a generalizing specialist.
• Define and evolve the architecture of the components you are working on and contribute to architectural decisions at a department and bank-wide level.
• Ensure that the software you build is reliable and easy to support in production.
• Be prepared to take your turn on call providing 3rd line support when it's needed
• Help your team to build, test and release software within short lead times and with minimum of waste.
• Work to develop and maintain a highly automated Continuous Delivery pipeline.
• Help create a culture of learning and continuous improvement within your team and beyond

Your skills and experience

• Experienced in Spec Driven Development using AI tools.
• Proficiency in Java /Kotlin with good understanding of both object oriented and functional programming concepts.
• Practical experience in building data engineering solutions
• Strong knowledge of Java, Spring, Spring Boot, Maven, PHP, Reddis , Elastic Search
• Strong knowledge of Github Actions, CI/CD pipeline , Container-native delivery : Docker , Kubernetes, Helpm
• Experience with setting up key stores, generating SSL Certificates, Gateways , Apigee
• Experience working in an agile team, practicing Scrum, Kanban or XP
• Experience of Automated Testing is highly desirable
• Architecture and design approaches that support rapid, incremental and iterative delivery, such as Domain Driven Design, CQRS, Event Sourcing and microservices.
• Deep API design (GraphQL and REST) and inter-service communication (sync + async/eventing)
• High performance SQL data access - SQL scripts
• Database: Oracle 10G or higher for Liquibase database automation and Postgres – modelling, performance , zero-low downtime schema change
• Ability to read and safely evolve an unfamiliar legacy PHP codebase
• Proven ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, optimise workflows to solve business problems, while applying critical judgment to ensure responsible and ethical use of data and AI outputs.

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

About us and our teams

Please visit our company website for further information: https://www.db.com/company/company.html 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.

Experience Level

Executive Level