Lead 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.

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WHY THIS ROLE IS IMPORTANT TO US

Investment Accounting, a product area within SimCorp’s Product Division, forms the backbone of our flagship product SimCorp One. It delivers rules and calculation methods to provide our clients with legally binding subledger for all supported financial asset classes.

If you are an innovative, curious, and collaborative person who embraces challenges and wants to grow, learn and pursue outcomes with our prestigious financial clients, say Hello to SimCorp!

WHAT YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR

• Build solutions: collaborate closely with your team, Product Managers, Architects, peers and end-users to deliver high-quality, secure and valuable solutions in the Investment Accounting product area
• Contribute across the entire development lifecycle - from requirements analysis and design to implementation, test automation, documentation, and ongoing support.
• Put yourself in the shoes of the end-user: Conduct context-based, exploratory, and scenario testing and Test Driven Development.
• Engage meaningfully in team meetings, cross-team feature refinements and planning sessions.
• Drive innovations, uphold technical excellence and quality, advocate best practices, and continuously improve our ways of working. Your daily work life will thus also include topics such as “how can we reduce our build time,” “how can we re architect this component to perform significantly faster,” and “how can we work together in a more fun and effective way.”
• Continuously learn: Improve yourself, your team and SimCorp.
• Think beyond the code: Understand our strategy, goals and customer needs to enhance SimCorp’s impact.
• Mentor, coach, and help colleagues to secure the team’s deliveries as well as quality and product architecture.

YOUR SKILLS

We expect you to specialize in several of the following. What you do not know we expect you to learn fast.

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in software engineering.
• Strong proficiency in object-oriented and functional programming languages.
• Familiarity with modern engineering practices, including CI/CD pipelines and trunk-based development.
• Experience working with relational databases and writing efficient SQL queries.
• Solid understanding of automated testing and quality assurance practices.
• Curiosity and adaptability to learn in-house tools and frameworks - including the APL programming language.
• Willingness to dive into a complex domain, working with accounting, finance, and investment-related instruments.
• A problem-solving mindset, with a strong focus on quality and continuous improvement.
• Proactive and self-driven, with a passion for learning and evolving.
• Fluent in English, both written and spoken.
• Comfortable working in agile environments, where delivery scopes evolve and collaboration is key.

WHAT WE VALUE

• Experience with cloud technologies, particularly Microsoft Azure.
• Experience working with large-scale enterprise systems and fintech domain.

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 Swati Pal (Swati.pal@simcorp.com), Talent Acquisition Partner. 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.