About the Role
As a Senior Software Developer in our Market Data team, you will be working on a broad set of real-world problems. Highly effective data management, resilience, and fail-over strategies are some of our most important topics. In close collaboration with our business analysts and data engineers, you will create high-performance data processing solutions that scale using emerging technologies and approaches and help us define new best practices. Our continuous business growth and high requirements on accuracy, performance, and availability will provide you with a lot of engineering challenges and opportunities to contribute, to learn, and to grow as part of our team.
Responsibilities
- Designing and implementing challenging projects to develop our data processing pipeline.
- Building up a data landscape that acts as the single source of all relevant data in the long run.
- Engineering ETL processes.
- Developing high performance APIs and streaming solutions to our clients and data vendors.
- Being an in-house consultant for best track, store, and access data.
Requirements
- 8+ years of software development, data engineering, or relevant experience, including at least 5 years of in-depth Python experience.
- Good understanding of microservice architectures, Liskov’s Substitution Principle, design patterns, and dynamic dispatch.
- Experience with at least one SQL/NoSQL database, such as MongoDB, PostgreSQL, or MySQL, including schema definition and evolution, as well as ORM frameworks such as SQLAlchemy, JPA, or Hibernate.
- Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- Ability to define build pipelines and perform, validate, and monitor deployments.
- Ability to define Docker images according to the Twelve-Factor App methodology.
- Ability to use Git from the command line and apply version-control management practices (e.g., Gitflow, trunk-based development).
- Strong technical mentoring skills.
- Full professional proficiency in English.
- Ability to illustrate ideas and concepts with figurative examples to both stakeholders and developers.
- Ability to perceive the business domain in terms of mathematical structures is appreciated.
Skills
- Python
- Microservice architectures
- Liskov’s Substitution Principle
- Design patterns
- Dynamic dispatch
- SQL
- NoSQL
- MongoDB
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- SQLAlchemy
- JPA
- Hibernate
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- CI/CD
- Docker
- Twelve-Factor App methodology
- Git
- Gitflow
- Trunk-based development
- Technical mentoring
- English proficiency
- Communication
- Mathematical structures
Location
- Frankfurt
Work Type
- Hybrid work model
Experience Level
- Senior
- 8+ years of software development or data engineering experience
- 5+ years of Python experience
Benefits
- Free choice of gears
- Modern start-up culture with a flat hierarchy
- Opportunity to develop personally
- Opportunity to take over responsibility
- Direct customer contact from day one
- 30 annual vacation days
- Regular staff parties
- Team events
- Access to Corporate Benefits
- Modern office space
- Activity room
- Free beverages
- Fruit baskets
About the Company
- Solactive AG is a FinTech company operating globally and growing at a fast pace, headquartered in Frankfurt.
- Since 2007, we develop tailor-made and multi-asset class index solutions for ETFs and other index-linked investment products for the leading global investment banks and asset managers as our clients.
- Flexibility, efficiency and providing the highest quality are at the heart and soul of our business philosophy.
- We are now hiring!
