Senior Quant SW Developer - Pricing Services - hybrid work model (f/m/d)

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.

Your area of work:

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. The applications we develop and maintain are built using cloud-native principles and they utilize a modern technology stack. We are looking for an experienced Backend Developer with Quantitative Finance background (Quant Developer) who wants to participate on creation of the next generation of cloud-native Risk-Management services. You will be responsible for extending the existing functionality according to business requirements as well as maintaining it.

Your responsibilities:

• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain and improve software for the pricing of financial instruments, with focus on derivatives.
• Closely align with the prototyping team on the business side as well as functional analysts and business users.
• 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.
• Occasional business trips to Prague, since more than 50% of the Pricing Services team is based there.
  

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.
• Degree in a quantitative field (Computer Science, Maths, Physics, Quantitative Economics or similar).
• Minimum 3 years of working experience as a Quant Developer.
• Competent in programming with Java 17+ or C++.
• Familiarity with SQL databases.
• Background in building distributed applications on Linux.
• Proficiency in written and spoken English.

Preferred skills/qualifications – the following skills would be a plus:

• 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.
• Competent in programming with Python, JavaScript or TypeScript.
• Experience with GitHub, Terraform, CI/CD (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD or similar).
• An appreciation of the challenges of building, running and servicing 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. 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.