Cloud Backend Developer - Pricing Services (f/m/d)

Area of work:

Deutsche Börse Group is one of the leading global market infrastructure providers. Our group provides trading, clearing, settlement, market data distribution and other services for a broad range of asset classes (securities, derivatives, FX, …).

Deutsche Börse Group IT is organized as a product organization. Risk IT is part of the Risk Product, which mainly serves the Risk Management department of Eurex Clearing AG, regulated under EMIR, MaRisk et.al. Therefore, the services provided by Risk IT must meet several regulatory standards and provide operational stability whilst keeping up with developments in new technology.

We foster a culture of high standards, freedom, and responsibility. We encourage ownership and trust and have a strong belief in developing talent.

Risk IT develops and maintains several mission critical applications and has launched ambitious projects with broad impact.

Our Pricing Services team is responsible for building and maintaining critical applications that provide market data and derivatives pricing functionality to the Risk Management systems of Eurex Clearing AG. One of those applications is Market Data Hub (MDH), a young application used by our Market Operations team to perform critical tasks related to pricing of financial instruments. MDH is built using cloud-native principles, utilizing a modern technology stack with an experienced team behind it.

We are looking for a Backend Developer for Market Data Hub and new cloud-native pricing applications developed in parallel to MDH. You will be responsible for extending Market Data Hub functionality according to business needs as well as maintaining it and, in the long run, also for MDH integration into the new Risk platform which is being developed.

Your responsibilities:

• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain and improve software for the pricing of financial instruments, with a focus on derivatives
• Manage your own project priorities, deadlines and deliverables 
• Stay up to date on technology
• Help to maintain a collaborative and appreciative team culture
• Support the Head of Unit Pricing Services in terms of reporting and planning
• Support Audits and respective findings mitigations if required

Your profile:

• Team player with excellent communication skills, naturally strives for inclusion rather than exclusion, creates transparency, communicates proactively, seeks continuous self-improvement
• Strong results orientation, reliable, sets high standards for the quality of work products
• Competent in programming with Java 17+
• Familiarity with SQL databases
• Background in building distributed applications on Linux 
• A degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, Physics or equivalent experience 
• Very good written and spoken English skills

Nice to have:

• Experience with developing cloud native and 12factor applications on AWS, GCP or Azure
• Experience with containers and container orchestration on OpenShift
• Understanding of microservice architecture and related technologies
• Degree in a quantitative field (Computer Science, Maths, Physics, Quantitative Economics or similar) or background in quantitative pricing models
• Competent in programming with C++, Python, JavaScript or TypeScript
• Experience with GitHub, Terraform, CI/CD (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD or similar)
• An appreciation of the challenges of building, running, servicing and supporting a minimum downtime production system used in critical environments and an interest or background in financial markets and risk management

This opportunity is open to flexible working arrangements. Such as working from home, flexible, or compressed hours, and part-time.

We would be happy to meet you and discuss what we are working on, and what we can offer you in terms of opportunities, benefits, and career prospects. 

Location: Prague