Quant and Tax Developer (m/f/x)

Scalable Capital is a leading digital investment and banking platform with a full banking licence, empowering people across Europe to shape their own finances. Scalable Broker makes it easy and affordable for clients to invest professionally in stocks, ETFs, cryptocurrencies, and derivatives, as well as 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 banks and other B2B partners. The company’s offerings are rounded off by attractive interest rates, loans, and private equity. With the European Investor Exchange, Scalable Capital offers an exchange specifically for retail investors. Over one million clients have already entrusted more than €30 billion to the platform.

Founded in 2014, Scalable Capital now employs over 700 people across Munich, Berlin, Vienna, Milan, and London. Together with the founding and management team, including Erik Podzuweit and Florian Prucker, they are working on a new generation of financial services.

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Job Description

In this role, you will be responsible for developing a key component of Scalable’s most transformative project: the taxation logic that supports our pan-European growth.

In addition, you will be involved in fully automating the wealth management algorithms, encompassing risk, cost, and tax optimization in cost-effective burst computations with the capacity to handle 1mn trades in 10 minutes for less than €10. You will productionize algorithmic models that autonomously react to client requests and market movements across multiple tax regimes. All of this is carried out on a cutting edge tech stack.

• Develop hands-on in Python alongside a highly motivated team of software engineers and quant developers, driving transformative changes in the financial industry
• Get to work on cutting edge technology and be part of modern software development practices (e.g. agile and self-sufficient teams, continuous integration and deployment, test automation, cloud-based infrastructure and tooling)
• Drive the development of the next generation tax optimization
• Create wealth management and brokerage services for everybody
• Architect and deploy interfaces connecting the Scalable Capital Robo with key internal services to establish seamless connectivity with the external world
• Contribute and develop data-driven ideas aimed at generating business value
• Drive continuous improvements of data pipelines with respect to requirements and platform dependencies
• Fully automate trading algorithms driven by pure quantitative evidence that autonomously manage billions in assets, react to market movements and client requests in hundreds of thousands of individual portfolios
• Never implement any of the above in spreadsheet tools
• Support the tax core team, investment managers, trading, backend, wealth management

Qualifications

• Excellent university degree in computer science, mathematics, natural sciences, or a similar field
• Passion for the global financial markets and for cracking tax challenges
• Knowledge in econometrics with an emphasis on portfolio optimization and risk modelling
• Experience with convex optimization, exposure to libraries like cvxpy, scipy or cvxopt
• Experience in quantitative modeling and data-driven decisions
• Knowledge of software development and software design in Python
• Exposure and interest in our tech stack: Docker, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), relational databases / SQL, knowledge of Java / Kotlin is a plus
• Experience with cloud providers like AWS
• Excellent communication skills that are clear, concise, and targeted towards your audience - engineering, product, or other stakeholders
• Fluent English language skills (written & spoken)
• Proactive and independent working style, good time management, fair play

We would be happy if you 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! Applications without such motivation will not be considered.

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
• Be productive with the latest hardware and tools
• Learn and grow by joining our in-house knowledge sharing or career development sessions and spending your individual Education Budget 
• Learn and experience German culture first hand by joining our free German language classes
• International relocation support is provided if required 
• 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 50% for the ‘Deutschland Jobticket’
• Say goodbye to order commissions and say hello to your complimentary subscription of Scalable Capital's PRIME+ Broker
• Enjoy flexible and discounted sports activities with Urban Sports Club