Staff Engineer (m/f/d)
Solactive AG2 months ago
Frankfurt, Germany or Berlin, GermanyStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead the technical direction and architectural evolution of the index development service.
- Lead complex initiatives end-to-end across backend, frontend, data, and infrastructure.
- Conduct code and design reviews, coach engineers, and raise engineering standards.
- Partner with product, business stakeholders, and engineering teams to identify problems and deliver solutions aligned with the platform vision.
- Drive system design across distributed services, APIs, integrations, data models, and cloud infrastructure.
- Improve engineering effectiveness, ownership, delivery practices, and trade-offs between speed, quality, and risk.
- Mentor engineers and support their technical and professional growth.
Requirements
- 10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience with strong expertise in common programming languages.
- Experience with Java, Python, and TypeScript.
- Strong system design skills covering service decomposition, API design, integration patterns, data modeling, scalability, reliability, and operational concerns.
- Strong hands-on Kubernetes experience, including deploying, operating, and troubleshooting containerized cloud-native applications.
- Ability to lead ambiguous, business-heavy problem spaces and translate requirements into quality technical solutions.
- Proven ability to simplify complex systems and deliver maintainable, high-impact end-to-end solutions.
- Experience with code reviews, design reviews, CI/CD, testing strategy, observability, incident response, and production ownership.
- Ability to influence engineers, product managers, and business stakeholders without formal authority.
- Product mindset and delivery orientation, balancing technical quality with business value.
- React and TypeScript frontend development experience is a plus.
Benefits
- International team and exposure to the FinTech and index-provider industry.
- 30 days of annual vacation plus additional time off for Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve.
- Job ticket, Corporate Benefits program, modern ergonomic office space, employee lounge, and complimentary beverages and fruit.
- Networking events, tech talks, business talks, and diverse training offerings.
- Flexible working hours and a hybrid work model.
- Cover letter is optional for the application.
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About Solactive AG
Solactive AG designs, calculates, and licenses equity, fixed income, and multi-asset indices used by asset managers, ETF issuers, and investment banks for products and mandates. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Frankfurt am Main, the privately held firm calculates over 40,000 indices daily and is an ESMA-registered benchmark administrator supervised by BaFin. Revenue comes from index licensing and bespoke index development and calculation services.