Senior Principal Software Engineer (C#/APL)

Senior Principal Software Engineer (C#/APL) – Portfolio Analysisa

WHAT MAKES US, US  

Join some of the most innovative thinkers in FinTech as we lead the evolution of financial technology. If you are an innovative, curious, collaborative person who embraces challenges and wants to grow, learn and pursue outcomes with our prestigious financial clients, say Hello to SimCorp!  

At its foundation, SimCorp is guided by our values — caring, customer success-driven, collaborative, curious, and courageous. Our people-centered organization focuses on skills development, relationship building, and client success. We take pride in cultivating an environment where all team members can grow, feel heard, valued, and empowered. 

If you like what we’re saying, keep reading!  

WHY THIS ROLE IS IMPORTANT TO US

As our new Principal Software Engineer, you will join SimCorp’s Product Division, a full-scale agile organization. You will be working in an agile team of about 5-7 people. The team works on our SimCorp Dimension product. In your daily work you will – together with your team - understand and challenge customer requirements, discuss solutions, implement and test the chosen solution, and support it. We use a variety of tools, but the main ones are C#, APL and an Oracle database. You will mainly be working with backend and APIs.
The present and near future main topics are good maintainability, high system performance, continuous integration and delivery, and reshaping our product for the cloud.
In addition to implementing customer features, it is essential for us to continuously improve on all levels: company, division, product area, team, and individual. Your daily work life will thus also include topics such as “how can we reduce our build time”, “how can we rearchitect this component to perform significantly faster”, and “how can we work together in a more fun and effective way”.
We encourage your personal development, and you will be able to spend 20% of your time experimenting with new technologies and implementing your ideas.

We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join an agile team in Portfolio Analytics Product Area.

We use a multitude of tools and technologies such as Visual Studio, C#, Dyalog APL, Azure DevOps within the areas of development and software configuration management.

WHAT YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR

In your daily work, you will - together with your team

·       Provide technical leadership in design, development, and testing.

·       Help explore how AI can improve user experiences, workflows, and engineering productivity.

·       Define and own test architecture and quality strategy at team level.

·       Balance active coding (C#, APL) with guiding automation initiatives

·       Drive adoption of automation-first practices across the team.

·       Ensure high-quality delivery by monitoring coverage, test metrics, and quality KPIs.

·       Mentor and coach engineers in development, automation, and testing skills.

·       Collaborate with stakeholders (POs, TLs, architects) to align technical and quality goals.

·       Conduct in-depth root cause analysis for complex defects and ensure preventive actions

·       Advocate for and implementing improvements in tools, CI/CD pipelines, and engineering processes.

·       Continuously assessing and improving engineering processes, recommending new tools and technologies to enhance productivity and software quality

·       Represent the team in technical forums and contribute to cross-team knowledge exchange.

We expect you to be good at several of the following and are interested in learning the rest.

·       Advanced C# skills and insight into the .NET framework

·       Be able to learn additional technologies (like APL)

·       Experience with developing and integrating middle and backend services and APIs

·       You are interested and able to work within the architecture of an enterprise solution

·       Actively work with improvements relating to tool stack and engineering practices (CI/CD pipelines, test-driven development, telemetry, etc)

·       You have good English skills and thrive in an international work environment

·       You have an M.Sc. in Computer Science or a similar field, or an equivalent level of experience

·       Practical experience within financial instruments and financial investment systems is of course an advantage, but not a prerequisite for the job. It is more important that you take an interest in learning this field. We will bring you up to speed using technical and domain discussions, training, and a comprehensive onboarding program.

WHAT WE VALUE

Most importantly, you can see yourself contributing and thriving in the position described above. How you gained the skills needed for doing that is less important. We expect you to be good at several of the following and be able to - and interested in - learning the rest.   

• Taking ownership and achieving results
• Trying new approaches to both new and old challenges
• Working with others to leverage the strengths of everyone in the team
• Learning new skills and improving upon existing ones
• Continually looking for ways to improve what we do and how we do it 

BENEFITS

• Global hybrid work policy - We ask you to work 2 days a week from the office. If you choose, you can work remotely the other days. Of course, you are welcome at the office if that is your preference.
• Growth and Innovation - Every 6th sprint is reserved for planning and innovation. So, with regular intervals you have a chance to explore and learn new skills or improve something that you believe will be beneficial to you, your team or the application.
• Self-Direction - High degree of self-organization. Each team and developer have a high degree of freedom to plan, organize and design their work.
• Inclusive and diverse company culture
• Work-life balance – We believe that an equilibrium between professional responsibilities makes us all the best version of ourselves, both in private life and as colleagues in the workplace
• Empowerment – We believe that all voices are valuable and must be heard. You will be involved in shaping our work processes

NEXT STEPS 

Please send us your application in English via our career site as soon as possible, we process incoming applications continually. Please note that only applications sent through our system will be processed. At SimCorp, we recognize that bias can unintentionally occur in the recruitment process. To uphold fairness and equal opportunities for all applicants, we kindly ask you to exclude personal data such as photo, age, or any non-professional information from your application. Thank you for aiding us in our endeavor to mitigate biases in our recruitment process. 

If you are interested in being a part of SimCorp but are not sure this role is suitable, submit your CV anyway. SimCorp is on an exciting growth journey, and our Talent Acquisition Team is ready to assist you discover the right role for you. The approximate time to consider your CV is three weeks.    

We are eager to continually improve our talent acquisition process and make everyone’s experience positive and valuable. Therefore, during the process we will ask you to provide your feedback, which is highly appreciated. 

WHO WE ARE 

For over 50 years, we have worked closely with investment and asset managers to become the world’s leading provider of integrated investment management solutions. We are 3,000+ colleagues with a broad range of nationalities, educations, professional experiences, ages, and backgrounds.   

SimCorp is an independent subsidiary of the Deutsche Börse Group. Following the recent merger with Axioma, we leverage the combined strength of our brands to provide an industry-leading, full, front-to-back offering for our clients.  

SimCorp is an equal opportunity employer and welcome applicants from all backgrounds, without regard to race, gender, age, disability, or any other protected status under applicable law. We are committed to building a culture where diverse perspectives and expertise are integrated into our everyday work. We believe in the continual growth and development of our employees, so that we can provide best-in-class solutions to our clients.

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