Software Engineer for FinTech – C#, API

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 3,100+ colleagues with a broad range of nationalities, educations, professional experiences, ages, and backgrounds in general. SimCorp is an equal opportunity employer. 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. While striving to deliver client value, we believe it is vital to consider our people and our planet in every business decision we make. Acting responsibly is not optional. It is essential. 

Do you have what it takes to develop financial software using both object-oriented and functional programming languages? Then an interesting career could be awaiting you in SimCorp!  

 
As our new Software Engineer, you will join SimCorp’s Product Division, a full-scale agile organization. Here, you will become part of a cross functional and cross located agile team which is responsible for delivering functionality within the Trading module of our product, SimCorp Dimension. The Trading module is responsible for the order management workflows and order execution across brokers and trading platforms. 

We have been developing a new order workflow engine using F#, .NET and functional programming techniques. We are in process of redefining the user experience by building a new cloud-native web frontend using Azure, C#, and Angular/TypeScript, etc. 

The new web frontend requires an extensive API with good developer experience, low latency and high throughput. You will apply your talents to all stages of the development lifecycle, including creation and review of user stories, development, design, testing, coding, code reviews, writing automated tests, and support.  

You will be using multiple technologies, and your responsibilities will also include:  

• Working with product management to refine new features  

• Developing core functionality to support the business modules  

• Maintaining the existing code base  

• Reviewing product code and helping formulate test scenarios  

• Constantly learning and developing yourself, the team and our product  

What we value:  

• Solid C# skills, good insight into the .NET platform, object-oriented software design, functional programming, etc. 

• Understanding REST APIs or event-driven APIs based on pub/sub mechanisms. 

• Curiosity and ability to learn on the job. 

• Practical knowledge of Unit testing, code coverage, and Test-Driven Development 

• Familiarity with advanced development techniques like event-sourcing; asynchronous programming, multithreading and concurrency; dependency injection 

• You are a team player who actively seeks collaboration to find optimal solutions  

• You are interested and able to work with complex architecture, both front- and back-end  

• You hold a degree in Computer Science or a similar field  

  
Furthermore, we value that you  

• have the motivation to work within the financial domain 

• have strong collaboration and communication skills and fluency in English (written and spoken)  

• are willing to acquire other technical and programming skills, e.g. functional programming languages (F# and OCaml) 

• have the desire to develop and maintain automated tests, underlying frameworks, and their integration into CI/CD pipelines 

• actively learn through experimentation when tackling the latest problems, using experiences from both successes and failures  

• can introduce new ways of looking at problems and that you can take creative ideas and put them into practice  

• think about the entire system and identify and implement ways to continuously improve  

• able to work in a hybrid setup (remote and physical work environments) 
   

Our Benefits  

Competitive salary, bonus scheme, and pension are essential for any work agreement. However, we believe we can offer more at SimCorp. Therefore, in addition to the traditional benefit scheme, we provide an excellent work & work-life balance: flexible work hours and a hybrid workplace model. On top of that, we have IP sprints where you have three weeks per quarter to spend on mastering your skills and contributing to the company's development. There is never just only one route - we practice an individual approach to professional development to support the direction you want to take.