Copenhagen, Denmark
Are you enthusiastic about contributing to our digital activation agenda in a vibrant and international setting? Saxo Bank is seeking an experienced Senior Backend Engineer to become a key member of our Digital Activation Analytics & Campaign Compliance team. In this position, you will play a crucial role in designing, developing, and maintaining our audience orchestration tool.
This opportunity combines hands-on development with strategic architectural duties to create scalable and robust solutions.
The ideal candidate will possess a strong background in software development, martech technologies, and data engineering, with at least 5 years of experience in backend development for production-grade systems.
What We're Looking For
A minimum of 5 years of backend development experience building and maintaining production-grade backend systems
Passion for Python: You love coding in Python and are always looking for ways to improve your skills. Knowledge of FastAPI practices and type safety is highly-relevant for the role.
SQL Savvy: You have a good understanding of SQL and can navigate databases with ease. Similarly, experience with database migration patterns and modern deployment strategies in MSSQL is preferred.
Databricks: Proven experience with Databricks and Data Lake in production settings
REST API Expertise: Strong experience building and consuming REST APIs or Webhook endpoints for event driven patterns
Event-driven Architecture: Experience with Event-driven architecture and ability to integrate through Kafka (topic subscription, message parsing). Additionally, basic understanding of data ingestion and processing workflows through Airflow-DAGs is a plus.
ETL: Develop and maintain scalable, efficient, and reliable ETL processes, establish best practices for data ingestion, storage, and processing
DevOps: practical experience in app containerization and deployment configurations (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm Charts, Azure Pipelines). Extended experience with version control and CI/CD techniques is required.
Solution Oriented: You're driven, ambitious, and ready to show what you can do in a dynamic environment.
Team Player: You thrive in collaborative settings and are ready to contribute to a team working on critical communication systems.
Testing: You follow best practices for testing applications at multiple levels: unit, integration and functional tests and can work effectively across staged environments. Knowledge of testing frameworks like Cypress, Vitest and Pytest is preferred.
Nice to Have
Backend Languages Proficiency: You are skilled in one or more backend languages such as .NET, C# or TypeScript
Event Schema Design: You possess experience in designing and building event schema design, datasets, identities, and event structures.
Martech: Understanding of the Adobe experience cloud tools like AJO, CJA is a plus
Experience with database-agnostic ORM, prepared statements and microservices
What You'll Do
Work on exciting projects that impact our communication systems.
Take on full-stack challenges and bring your creative ideas to life.
Build and maintain backend services and APIs that connect internal systems
Apply best practices in API design (REST, data serialization, observability & testing)
Extend FastAPI endpoints with response models, secure & parametric queries, as well as extensive API documentation
Apply database and query optimization techniques for efficient API integrations
Integrate Kafka topic subscriptions and dynamic parsing configurations in the event-driven architecture.
Ensure high-quality, validated customer and event data.
Troubleshoot ingestion failures and monitor data flows.
Manage CI/CD pipelines for full-stack applications with performance monitoring.
Design containerization and orchestration manifests for the application
Ensure high-quality, validated customer and event data.
Maintenance and extension of databases as MSSQL projects
Design and implement extensive testing suites for the full-stack application
Why Join Us?
Gain hands-on experience with real-world projects.
Be part of a team that values innovation and creativity.
Opportunity to make a significant impact on critical systems.
Vibrant and inclusive workplace where your ideas are valued and encouraged.
If you're ready to take the next step in your development career and make a difference, apply now! Show us your passion, and let's build something amazing together.
We get curious people invested in the world
When you work at Saxo, you become a Saxonian and part of a purpose-driven organisation, where good ideas are always taken seriously, and where you can make a true impact. We are invested in your development, and you can expect a robust career from day one when you join Saxo – no matter which role you take on.
You will join 2,500 other ambitious colleagues across 15 countries and become part of an international organisation. Working in Saxo, you will get to meet colleagues from many different cultures and backgrounds, and you should know that we value diversity and inclusion and see it as a genuine source of strength to drive growth, foster innovation and position us for long-term success.
We encourage an open feedback culture and supportive team environments enabling employees to grow and fulfil their career aspirations.
When you bring passion, curiosity, drive and team spirit, your learning journey will be dynamic and your career opportunities in Saxo will be immense.
At Saxo we don’t just offer a job – we offer an opportunity to invest in your future!
How to apply :
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What We Do
At Saxo we believe that when you invest, you unlock a new curiosity for the world around you.
Discovering an intuitive desire within to actively learn, explore, and ask questions, you will engage with new companies, new communities, maybe even new countries. You could call this an appetite or passion for new knowledge and skills. We call it curiosity. Ultimately everything we do as a company is focused on getting curious people invested in the world by giving our clients more ways to make more of their money.
We began in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1992 with a clear vision: to make the global financial markets accessible for more people. In 1998, we launched one of the first online trading platforms in Europe, providing professional-grade tools and easy access to global financial markets for anyone who wanted to invest.
Today we are a well-capitalised Danish (EU) bank with top capital ratios and positive rating from S&P, trusted by over 1.2 million clients. As an international award-winning investment firm for investors and traders who are serious about investing, our clients enjoy regulated and reliable access to over 71,000 financial instruments on our industry-leading platforms. Keeping our headquarters in our beloved Denmark, we have expanded our reach to having more than 70 nationalities employed in offices in 14 countries.
We are proud of our Scandinavian heritage and we are committed to the values of trust, fairness, and security. We believe this gives our clients the confidence to be adventurous and curious.
Curiosity can lead you to places you never could have imagined. When you invest, you stimulate the mind, you see new perspectives, and you broaden your horizons. Personal transformation is inevitable as you develop a sincere interest and curiosity for not only the world, but also for others.
At Saxo our greatest hope is for everyone to become engaged, to feel empowered, and to Be Invested
