Python Engineer - Backend and Cloud DevOps (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.

Visit our finance blog or check out our Social Media channels to find out what our Expert Teams have to say.

Our Company Values guide us every day in how we work and collaborate. To learn more about them, you can find our values here (English).

Job Description

In this greenfield project, you’ll build and automate a robo-advisor managing several billion euros in assets. 

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 which includes productionizing algorithmic models that autonomously react to client requests and market movements utilizing cost-effective burst computations with the capacity to handle millions of trades in minutes. This includes cleanly defined optimization problems, a cutting-edge stack and painstakingly comprehensive test coverage to confidently deploy without delays.

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 serverless AWS services such as Lambda, SQS, SNS, ECS, DynamoDB, Glue, Athena and Step Functions. That should be supported with working knowledge of Docker and GitHub Actions. The infrastructure is managed via code using Terraform. A strong understanding of all varieties of databases is also crucial for this role.

• Design and build a new exciting platform to serve our customers using cutting edge technology and modern software development practices (e.g. 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
• 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
• Extensive work experience in Python (mandatory)
• Java/Kotlin previous experience would be a plus
• Hands-on experience with multiple AWS services
• Industry experience with Docker and Git
• 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
• Fluent English language skills (written & spoken)
• 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
• 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