Software Engineer

For over 50 years, we have worked closely with investment managers to become the world’s leading provider of integrated investment management solutions. We are 3000+ colleagues with a broad range of nationalities, educations, professional experiences, ages, and backgrounds in general.

SimCorp is an equal opportunity employer. We are enthusiastic about building and supporting a culture where diverse perspectives and expertise are imperative to 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.

The Product Area and The Team  

As a Software Engineer, you will become part of the Transactions product area within SimCorp's Product Division, responsible for delivering functionality that enables clients to make investment decisions with our back-office applications.

The Transactions product area is one of the core areas in SimCorp Dimension® and it is an excellent opportunity to grow into both business side of financial instruments as well as software engineering in a highly skilled, highly diverse, at the same time highly creative and collaborative work environment.

Currently it consists of three teams, each with five to seven software engineers across several geographical locations, and you will join one of the teams.

Why this role is important to us

In SimCorp, we make some of the biggest financial institutions in the world be qualified by simplifying their accounting, operations, and investments. We do this through IT systems, processes, and financial knowledge. High quality, performing, secure, and cost-effective software is at the core of what we do. To build and maintain this software, software engineers are essential to us.

We are seeking curious, courageous, and capable professionals who are ready to create innovative, efficient, and attractive offerings. This journey will involve trial and error, improvisation, and adaptation. If you thrive in such an environment, we want to hear from you.

As part of our scrum team, you will play a crucial role in delivering solutions for Transactions while working closely with Product Owners and engaging with clients. You will work with a codebase primarily based on APL and C# (backend and APIs ) with the potential of extending our tech stack to new programming languages in the future, in a culture that values trust and teamwork.

The present and near future main topics are good maintainability, high system performance, continuous integration and delivery, and moving into our unified platform for cloud.

What you will be responsible for

You will apply your expertise 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:

• Develop new core functionality to support the business modules and continuous improvements to the existing code base.
• Expand existing solutions in all areas of SimCorp Dimension for the usage of Transactions, discuss solutions options, test and support it.
• Work as part of your scrum team to support timely deliveries as well as high level of quality and product architecture.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to understand their needs and get fast feedback.
• Constantly learn and improve yourself, the team and our product incl. experimenting with modern engineering practices such as test-driven development, SpecFlow, etc. 

What you will bring

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:

• Ability to work with and develop complex architecture front and back end.
• Comfortable with changing code from other product areas.
• Genuine willingness to learn and to dig into unknown areas . 
• Being comfortable working with new technologies.
• Being adventurous - able to work in one direction and fast turn into another one.
• A high sense of quality, ability to work to deadlines, attention to detail and taking ownership of delivering a sound solution.
• A desire to constantly deliver value to the clients, to improve yourself and the team.
• Good communication skills and fluency in English (spoken and written).
• Understanding the Lean Agile practices, values and principles allow you to better understand how we work.
• Domain knowledge within finances, especially in pricing and accounting, is beneficial.
• Knowledge of or curiosity to learn APL.
• Programming experience in object-oriented languages, especially in C# using .NET framework.

Benefits

Attractive salary and bonus scheme are essential for any work agreement. However, in SimCorp, we believe we can offer more. Therefore, in addition to the traditional benefit scheme, we provide an effective work & private life balance: flexible work hours, a hybrid workplace model, and extra days of vacation. We also practice an individual approach to professional development to support the direction you want to take. We also offer a wide range of learning and development opportunities, powered by a unique learning guild, which means all needed trainings in both programming (such as APL) and finance will be provided .

Next steps

As part of the recruitment process, selected candidates will be asked to complete a coding task. Applications are continuously assessed, so please send your CV in English as soon as possible.

If you are interested in being a part of SimCorp but are not sure this role is a good candidate, submit your resume anyway. SimCorp is on an exciting growth journey, and our Talent Acquisition Team is ready to assist you discover the right role for you.

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