Cheques- Senior Engineer - Assistant Vice President

Job Title Cheques- Senior Engineer

Corporate Title Assistant Vice President

Location New York, NY or Cary, NC

Overview
 

We are seeking a seasoned, hands-on Senior Engineer (AVP) with deep experience designing, building, and delivering complex, high‑performance enterprise applications. You will play a key role in architecting and implementing scalable, resilient Java-based solutions that support mission‑critical banking and payments platforms. This role blends deep technical expertise with engineering leadership, owning solutions end‑to‑end while mentoring developers and driving engineering best practices across the team.
 

What We Offer You

• A diverse and inclusive environment that embraces change, innovation, and collaboration

• A hybrid working model, allowing for in-office / work from home flexibility, generous vacation, personal and volunteer days

• Employee Resource Groups support an inclusive workplace for everyone and promote community engagement

• Competitive compensation packages including health and wellbeing benefits, retirement savings plans, parental leave, and family building benefits

• Educational resources, matching gift and volunteer programs

What You’ll Do

• Work closely with engineers to design and implement high‑quality, scalable software solutions. Mentor and coach junior developers to strengthen technical capability and engineering discipline

• Provide strong engineering execution, technical direction, and architectural guidance to ensure alignment with the Bank’s technology strategy

• Conduct thorough code reviews to maintain high standards for code quality, performance, and maintainability

• Actively contribute to technical solution design and maintain end‑to‑end ownership of delivered technology, ensuring both functional and non‑functional requirements are met

• Diagnose, troubleshoot, and resolve complex technical issues in a timely and effective manner

• Partner closely with business analysts, architects, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into robust technical solutions

Skills You’ll Need

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science Engineering, or related fields required

• Strong hands-on development experience on Java/J2EE based Enterprise Applications

• Proven experience designing and building highly scalable, highly available, large‑scale monolithic banking applications

• Strong expertise in Java/J2EE technologies (EJB, Java Message Service (JMS)), Spring, and Spring Boot–based microservices, Angular, Postgres

• Hands‑on experience with web services (SOAP, REST), XML technologies, and relational databases such as Structured Query Language (SQL) and Oracle

Skills That Will Help You Excel

• Experience working with application servers such as Tomcat and WebLogic

• Solid understanding of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices and supporting tools

• Ability to design and execute performance testing (e.g., load, spike, breakpoint, endurance) to evaluate application and service limits

• Experience orchestrating release workflows and implementing continuous integration/continuous deployment (or development) (CI/CD) pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, Bitbucket, uDeploy, Docker, and Kubernetes

• Domain expertise in Banking, Financial Services, or Payments, along with familiarity with Behavior Driven Development (or Design) (BDD)/ Test Driven Development (or Design) (TDD) methodologies, Cucumber, Java‑based test automation, and development and monitoring tools (e.g., IntelliJ/Eclipse, Splunk, AppDynamics, New Relic)

Expectations

It is the Bank’s expectation that employees hired into this role will work in the New York or Cary office in accordance with the Bank’s hybrid working model.

Deutsche Bank provides reasonable accommodations to candidates and employees with a substantiated need based on disability and/or religion.

The salary range for this position in New York City and Cary is $100,000 to $153,000. Actual salaries may be based on a number of factors including, but not limited to, a candidate’s skill set, experience, education, work location and other qualifications. Posted salary ranges do not include incentive compensation or any other type of remuneration.

Deutsche Bank Benefits
 

At Deutsche Bank, we recognize that our benefit programs have a profound impact on our colleagues. That’s why we are focused on providing benefits and perks that enable our colleagues to live authenti­cally and be their whole selves, at every stage of life. We provide access to physical, emotional, and financial wellness benefits that allow our colleagues to stay financially secure and strike balance between work and home. Click here to learn more!

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We welcome applications from all people and promote a positive, fair and inclusive work environment.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law. Click these links to view Deutsche Bank’s Equal Opportunity Policy Statement and the following notices: EEOC Know Your Rights; Employee Rights and Responsibilities under the Family and Medical Leave Act; and Employee Polygraph Protection Act.