Senior Principal Software Engineer

WHAT MAKES US, US 

Join some of the most innovative thinkers in FinTech as we lead the evolution of financial technology. If you are an innovative, curious, collaborative person who embraces challenges and wants to grow, learn and pursue outcomes with our prestigious financial clients, say Hello to SimCorp! 

At its foundation, SimCorp is guided by our values — caring, customer success-driven, collaborative, curious, and courageous. Our people-centered organization focuses on skills development, relationship building, and client success. We take pride in cultivating an environment where all team members can grow, feel heard, valued, and empowered.

If you like what we’re saying, keep reading! 

WHY THIS ROLE IS IMPORTANT TO US

You will be joining an innovative application development team within SimCorp's Product Division. We provide a cloud native SaaS product built on Azure using modern development principles, technologies and practices.

The product, Digital Engagement Platform (DEP) has been operational for 3 years and based in client feedback and our own experience we have begun to lift the product to the next level, modernizing architecture and tech stack so we can scale DEP for a much larger audience than we can today.

This is why we need you - to help design and build a new DEP 2.0 that can support the biggest clients, asset managers, across the globe.

WHAT YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR

• Feature development
• DevOps discussions and implementations.
• Design and Architecture: Work together with other software engineers and architect to define and refine the product architecture and roadmap
• Guide and support other team mates to ensure the spread of knowledge and experience.
• Keep up to date with the latest technologies and find ways to improve the existing software
• Participate in support activities and client communication

To be successful in this job you are a very experienced developer. You have deep expertise in backend development and DevOps, and you are familiar with frontend development. You are a hands-on developer who loves to create high-quality code, and you can offer technical direction and leadership and collaboration with colleagues - architect and teammates - when creating an architecture, a design or just troubleshooting.

WHAT WE VALUE

You properly have a degree in computer science and 10+ years of experience in development. However, how you gained your skills is of lesser importance – even though we do expect you to be highly experienced in:

• Backend development – C# and .NET
• DevOps and CI/CD practices and tools
• Azure and Azure DevOps
• Application architecture and design, holistic view across, front, back and data
• Agile development methodologies and collaboration

The bullets above will be your primary focus areas, but in order to be successful you will collaborate with teammates that are specialized in:

• Frontend development in Angular and TypeScript
• Data engineering with Snowflake, dbt and Airflow

Should these areas have your interest, it will be possible to expand your expertise and learn and understand more about these areas.

As a person, you have the following traits:

• You collaborate with team members to work towards common goals.
• Solid problem-solving skills and comfortable questioning assumptions and as-is.
• Clear communicator who speaks up when needed.
• Exhibits a consistent approach and a creative mindset.
• Thrives in a collaborative environment and values teamwork
• Like to have fun at work and positivity comes easily to you

BENEFITS

Attractive salary, bonus scheme, and pension are essential for any work agreement. However, in SimCorp we believe we can offer more. Therefore, in addition to the traditional benefit scheme, we provide a good work-life balance: flexible working hours and a hybrid model. Simcorp follows a global hybrid policy, asking employees to work from the office two days each week while allowing remote work on other days.

Simcorp does offer opportunities for professional development: there is never just only one route - we offer an individual approach to professional development to support the direction you want to take.

NEXT STEPS

Please send us your application in English via our career site as soon as possible, we process incoming applications continually. Please note that only applications sent through our system will be processed. At SimCorp, we recognize that bias can unintentionally occur in the recruitment process. To uphold fairness and equal opportunities for all applicants, we kindly ask you to exclude personal data such as photo, age, or any non-professional information from your application. Thank you for aiding us in our endeavor to mitigate biases in our recruitment process.

For any questions you are welcome to contact [email protected]. If you are interested in being a part of SimCorp but are not sure this role is suitable, submit your CV anyway. SimCorp is on an exciting growth journey, and our Talent Acquisition Team is ready to assist you discover the right role for you. The approximate time to consider your CV is three weeks.   

We are eager to continually improve our talent acquisition process and make everyone’s experience positive and valuable. Therefore, during the process we will ask you to provide your feedback, which is highly appreciated.

WHO WE ARE

For over 50 years, we have worked closely with investment and asset managers to become the world’s leading provider of integrated investment management solutions. We are 3,000+ colleagues with a broad range of nationalities, educations, professional experiences, ages, and backgrounds.  

SimCorp is an independent subsidiary of the Deutsche Börse Group. Following the recent merger with Axioma, we leverage the combined strength of our brands to provide an industry-leading, full, front-to-back offering for our clients. 

SimCorp is an equal opportunity employer and welcome applicants from all backgrounds, without regard to race, gender, age, disability, or any other protected status under applicable law. We are committed to building a culture where diverse perspectives and expertise are integrated into our everyday work. We believe in the continual growth and development of our employees, so that we can provide best-in-class solutions to our clients.

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