Python Engineer (m/f/x) onsite or remote in Germany

Scalable Capital is a leading digital investment platform in Europe that makes investing easy and affordable for everyone. Clients of the Scalable Broker can trade 8,000 stocks, 2,500 ETFs, and 3,500 funds and other exchange traded products to build their portfolios, earn interest on their cash balance and take secured loans. People can also have their investments professionally managed via the digital wealth management service. More than one million clients already use the services.

Scalable Capital was founded in 2014 and is active in Germany, Austria, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and the UK. The investment firm, which is supervised by BaFin and the Bundesbank, has more than 20 billion euros on its platform. In addition to its business for private clients, the company operates B2B solutions. Its long-standing partners include ING, Barclays Bank in the UK, the robo-advisor Oskar, and the Santander Group in Spain. Scalable Capital employs more than 500 people at its offices in Munich, Berlin, and London. Together with the founding and management team around Erik Podzuweit and Florian Prucker, they strive to empower everyone to become an investor.

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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).

In Scalable’s expanding Financial Engineering, we are looking for backend developers for a new team which focuses on deploying data products and developing software solutions. You will be creating and improving our next generation wealth management and building regulatory market risk controlling systems. The successful candidate will have a solid background in our tech stack with Python being the leading language. Java/Kotlin as a second language is mandatory, alongside Docker, and Spring Boot. A successful candidate must be well-versed in AWS services such as Lambda, SQS, SNS, and ECS. A strong understanding of SQL is also crucial for this role.

• 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
• Develop and maintain innovative, high-performance monitoring tools serving regulatory purposes (Dash, Metabase, Datadog, ...)
• 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 implement interfaces with major internal services to connect the Scalable Capital asset allocation engine with the world
• Create the next generation wealth management and brokerage services for everybody

• Excellent university degree in computer science, mathematics, natural sciences, or a similar field
• 3+ years of full backend experience in Python (mandatory) 
• Industry experience with Java/Kotlin, JWT, Docker, Spring, AWS, Git,  GraphQL, RESTful API (mandatory)
• 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 Relational Databases / SQL
• 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!

• 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
• Enjoy an office in a great location in the middle of Munich, Berlin, or choose to work remotely within Germany (if eligible for the job)
• Be productive with the latest hardware and tools
• Learn and grow by joining our in-house knowledge sharing sessions and spending your individual Education Budget