Python Engineer Backend and Cloud DevOps (m / f / x) (onsite / remote in Germany)

Job description

Python Engineer - Backend and Cloud DevOps (m / f / x) (onsite / remote in Germany)

• Full-time

Company Description

Scalable Capital is a leading digital investment platform in Europe.

The company empowers everyone to shape their financial future.

Scalable Broker makes it easy and affordable for clients to invest professionally in stocks, ETFs and other exchange-traded products and set up savings plans.

Scalable Wealth, the digital wealth management service, offers clients professional investment in ETF portfolios and is also adopted as a white-label solution by renowned B2B partners.

With the European Investor Exchange (EIX) Scalable Capital offers a stock exchange for retail investors in Europe.

Over 27 billion euro is held on the platform by more than one million clients.

Scalable Capital was founded in 2014 and employs more than 500 people at its offices in Munich, Berlin, Vienna, and London.

Together with the founding and management team around Erik Podzuweit and Florian Prucker, they are working on a new generation of financial services.

In Scalable’s expanding Financial Engineering, we are looking for backend developers for a team which focuses on deploying data products and developing software solutions.

You will be creating and improving our next generation wealth management and building regulatory market risk controlling systems.

The successful candidate will have a solid background in our tech stack with Python being the leading language.

A successful candidate must be well-versed in AWS services such as Lambda, SQS, SNS, and ECS.

That should be supported with working knowledge of Docker.

The infrastructure is managed via code using Terraform and Atlantis.

A strong understanding of all varieties of databases is also crucial for this role.

Job Description

• Design and build a new exciting platform to serve our customers using cutting edge technology and modern software development practices (agile and self-sufficient teams, continuous integration and deployment, test automation, cloud-based infrastructure and tooling)
• Work alongside a highly motivated team of software engineers and quant developers, implementing change in the financial industry
• Develop and maintain innovative, high-performance monitoring tools serving regulatory purposes (Datadog, Metabase, Dash, ...)
• Choose tools for storing, processing, and displaying vast and growing datasets from diverse data sources
• Write clean, testable, maintainable and well-documented code and treat security as a first class citizen
• Design and build interfaces with major internal services to connect the Scalable Capital asset allocation engine with the world
• Design and build cloud-native solutions that process high volume of financial data
• Create the next generation wealth management and brokerage services for everybody

Qualifications

• Excellent university degree in computer science, mathematics, natural sciences, or a similar field
• 3+ years of backend experience in Python (mandatory)
• Java / Kotlin previous experience would be a plus
• Hands-on experience with multiple AWS services
• Industry experience with Docker, Git and RESTful API
• Excellent knowledge in data-driven business applications
• Exposure and interest in our tech stack: Python, DevOps, Docker, CI / CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), SQL and event-based asynchronous architectures
• Solid knowledge of software development and design in Python
• A soft spot for automation and clean code
• Excellent communication skills that are clear, concise, and targeted towards your audience - engineering, product, or other stakeholders
• Advanced knowledge of all varieties of databases
• Proactive, independent, collaborative and easy-going working style, good time management, fair play

Preferred skills

• Passion for the global financial markets
• Experience in quantitative modelling and data-driven decisions

We would be happy if you'd write to us in the message to the Hiring Manager section about what excites you about the role and why you think you would be a great fit!

Additional Information

• Be part of one of the fastest-growing and most visible Fintech startups in Europe, creating innovative services that have a substantial impact on the lives of our customers
• Work with an international, diverse, inclusive, and ever-growing team that loves creating the best products for our clients
• Enjoy an office in a great location in the middle of Munich or Prenzlauer Berg, a vibrant district surrounded by an exciting array of restaurants, cafés and convenient amenities
• Be productive with the latest hardware and tools
• Learn and grow by joining our in-house knowledge sharing sessions and spending your individual Education Budget
• Learn and experience German culture first hand by joining our free German language classes
• International relocation support
• Flexible vacation policy and the opportunity to work from abroad
• Benefit from an attractive compensation package and from the company pension scheme
• Monthly contribution of 25% for the ‘Deutschland Jobticket’
• Say goodbye to order commissions and say hello to your complimentary subscription of Scalable Capital's PRIME+ Broker

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