Technical Lead Engineer

Job Description:

DB Global Technology is Deutsche Bank’s technology center in Central and Eastern Europe. Opened in January 2014, the Bucharest office is constantly expanding.

The team is made up of enthusiastic professionals that work in an international environment, learning new technologies as part of Deutsche Banks’ businesses.

Changing the Bank is a challenging endeavor that we tackle every day and enjoy our success when our efforts fundamentally change how Deutsche Bank works.

About the role:

We are looking for a seasoned engineer able to make us better at designing and building. We found out that the best way to build a long-lasting product is to have a group of very competent engineers that exchange ideas, work together and complement each other. You need to be able to do system design as well as low level coding.

The ideal colleague understands the pitfalls of distributed systems and has very good knowledge of technologies as Kafka, JMS (MQ specifically), REST APIs, Relational Databases. We found that Spring has proven itself a debilitating crutch, thus we are looking for somebody that understands Spring but is also able to integrate with the aforementioned technologies outside of any particular framework.

You need to be able to come with creative solutions and bring arguments for those solutions but also listen to feedback and incorporate it within your solution when it proves to bring benefits. Sustain your ideas to different kind of stakeholders, technical or business, as well as guide other colleagues in implementing the solution. We do believe in walking the talk, so you need to be able to implement your own solutions, sometimes you will have all the necessary knowledge, sometimes you will need to improve on your knowledge to be able to do so.

Responsibilities:

• Design and build microservices
• Guide other colleagues through the implementation process
• Build automation tests
• Deploy applications through the environments all the way into Production
• Be on call for Production Incidents
• Shape the future of our technology stack and applying it innovatively to solve complex problems.
• Promoting a DevOps/SRE culture and modern toolchains to support continuous delivery.

Skills:

• Good experience with Java (+7 years)
• Ability to design and build distributed systems/ microservices in a resilient, reliable way with low latency
• Ability to test your application through and out
• Knowledge of working with OpenShift/Kubernetes or other containerization products
• Willingness to share your experience and explain your technical decisions to less experience engineers or non-technical colleagues
• Have a DevOps/SRE approach when designing/ building the applications
• Willingness to learn what you don’t know from your colleagues or on your own
• Working knowledge with relational databases

We would really love you to know:

• Kafka
• MQ
• REST
• GCP
• BDD
• OpenAPI
• NoSQL Datastores
• Gradle

Here you can find:

• 24 days’ holiday + loyalty days + bank holidays (week days offered for bank holidays on weekend days);
• Flexible working hours and working from home;
• Private healthcare and life insurance;
• A culture of continuous learning with coaching and support from experts in your team.

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.