Senior Software Engineer

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 in general.    

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. 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.   

WHY THIS ROLE IS IMPORTANT TO US

As our new Software Engineer, you will join SimCorp’s Product Division where you will become part of a cross-functional and cross-located agile team. We are responsible for delivering functionality within a specific module of our product - SimCorp Dimension. It is an industry-proven investment management system, heavily based on financial modelling with multidimensional arrays, used by hundreds of corporate clients all over the world. You will apply your talents to all stages of the development lifecycle, including creation and review of user stories, development, design, testing, coding, code reviews, writing automated tests, and support. 

WHAT YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR

You will be using multiple technologies, and your responsibilities will also include: 

• Developing core functionality to support the business modules 
• Building new UI for proven b2b fintech solution, being Angular best practices advocate 
• Maintaining the existing code base 
• Reviewing product code and formulating test scenarios 
• Constantly learning and developing yourself, the team, and our product 
• Working with product management to refine new features 

WHAT WE VALUE

Most importantly, you can see yourself contributing and thriving in the position described above. How you gained the skills needed for doing that is less important. We expect you to be good at several of the following and be able to - and interested in - learning the rest.   

• Excellent Angular Skills: Proficiency in Angular for developing dynamic and responsive web applications. 
• Good Azure Skills: Experience with Azure cloud services and deployment. 
• Some C# Skills: Have insight into the .NET framework and object-oriented software design and programming. 
• Some Experience with Functional Programming or readiness to learn it is a plus: Understanding of one or more functional programming languages (OCaml, Standard ML, F#, Scala, Haskell) is a nice to have for this position. 
• Experience in designing and developing REST APIs. 
• Understanding of Service-Oriented Architectures. 
• Interest and ability to work with complex architecture, think about complex systems, and back-end solutions. 
• M.Sc. or Ph.D. in Computer Science or a similar field. 

Furthermore, We Value That You 

• Are a team player who actively seeks collaboration to find optimal solutions. 
• Are motivated to work within the financial domain. 
• Have strong collaboration and communication skills and fluency in English (written and spoken). 
• Are willing to learn and acquire new technical and programming skills. 
• Have the desire to develop and maintain automated tests, underlying frameworks, and their integration into CI/CD pipelines. 
• Actively learn through experimentation when tackling the latest problems, using experiences from both successes and failures. 
• Can introduce new ways of looking at problems and can take creative ideas and put them into practice. 
• Can identify tech debt. 
• Can work in a hybrid setup (virtual and physical work environments). 

OUR BENEFITS

Competitive salary, bonus scheme, and pension are essential for any work agreement. However, at SimCorp, we believe we can offer more. Therefore, in addition to the traditional benefit scheme, we provide an excellent work-life balance: flexible work hours, a hybrid workplace model. On top of that, we have IP sprints; where you have 3 weeks per quarter to spend on mastering your skills as well as contributing to the company development. There is never just only one route - we practice 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. 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.