C++ Senior Software Application Developer for core financial applications (f/m/d)

Your area of work:

Deutsche Börse Group is one of the largest exchange organizations worldwide. Information Technology designs, builds and operates the technological infrastructure of the company. These highly integrated and automated IT systems are essential to our success. The Settlement department is responsible of real-time banking applications in the post-trade processing area of Clearstream/DBAG.

We're looking for a C++ developer to become part of the ICSD Settlement team responsible for development and maintenance of Clearstream's core backend real-time Clearing and Settlement engine.

The applications are written mostly in C++ (11), using Oracle as a database and are running natively on Linux (RHEL7). The application ecosystem is designed as a real-time massively parallel system composed of many microservices communicating via ActiveMQ and Oracle Advanced Queueing messaging systems.

As a developer, you'll have an opportunity to contribute to the existing system's features, modernize codebase to improve code safety and stability, design, develop and integrate new components, but also take part in the technical migrations such cloud migration involving dockerization of the microservices and orchestration using OpenShift.

While the production environment is restricted to ensure high stability, the development environment is very flexible to support individual developer's desires regarding IDEs and tools. This approach enables every developer to create one or multiple private AWS machines with custom setup ensuring high comfort and work efficiency. On the development side, we leverage technologies such as Ansible, Terraform, Python, AWS EC2, EFS, S3, DynamoDB, AWS Lambda, Jenikns (CI/CD) etc.

Your responsibilities:

• Broad range of development activities including (not limited to):
• Technical Design including security, performance, scalability and maintainability aspects.
• Implementation of small to large scale trading solutions with strict SLAs and high impact in the financial world.
• Improving/enhancing the automatic functional and security testing framework including cloud-driven CI/CD pipeline
• Supporting all activities related to end-to-end testing, including support for business testers and execution team.
• Analysing production system issues and providing support to internal teams.
• Achieving compliance with internal and external standards applicable to the design, development and documentation of solutions
• Identifying area of improvements and proposing enhancements to existing processes

Your profile:

• Good programming skills in C++
• At least 3+ years hands-on experience with C++ development
• Experience with SQL databases (preferably Oracle)
• Familiarity with development and scripting under Unix/Linux
• Knowledge of following technologies will be of advantage: AWS / Azure / GCP cloud services, docker, python, ansible, terraform, OpenShift

• Proficiency in written and spoken English
• Ability to work in a cross-location international team and strong communication skills
• Strong result-oriented mindset and willingness to learn new methods and tools
• A background in financial markets, clearing or banking will be of advantage

You can look forward to our benefit package:

• Hybrid Work and Flexible working hours
• Work from abroad - 12 days of remote work from EU countries per year
• Group Share Plan - discount on company shares
• Pension fund contribution - 3% of your gross salary (5% after 5 years with us)
• Health & Wellbeing - fully covered Multisport card, life & accident insurance, sick days and 100% salary contribution during sick leave (up to 56 days)
• 25 vacation days
• Mobility - fully covered public transport in Prague & free parking
• Flexible Benefit Account (Pluxee) - 1200 per month
• Personal Development - annual budget of €690 ... and way more!