Senior Software Engineer in Investment Accounting

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.
• Continuously learn: Improve yourself, your team and SimCorp.
• Think beyond the code: Understand our strategy, goals and customer needs to enhance SimCorp’s impact.

YOUR SKILLS

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

• 3+ years of experience in software engineering.
• Solid understanding of software engineering fundamentals, including algorithms and data structures.
• Proficiency in various software testing methodologies and approaches (black-box, white-box, exploratory)
• Direct experience with test case design and execution (functional, regression, smoke, sanity testing)
• Proficiency in at least one object-oriented programming language (C#).
• Familiarity with modern engineering tools and practices, including CI/CD and trunk-based development.
• Experience working with relational databases and SQL.
• Curiosity and willingness to learn in-house tools and frameworks, including the APL programming language.
• Readiness to work in a complex accounting domain, dealing with financial and investment-related instruments.
• Good English skills (upper-intermediate or higher), both written and spoken.

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.

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