Lead/Sr. Backend Software Engineer (C#.NET)

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.

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WHY THIS ROLE IS IMPORTANT TO US

As part of Deutsche Börse Group – in Product Development, Platform area, you will help us to shape the next generation of our technology platform.

You will contribute to strategic modernisation initiatives that improve scalability, user experience and operational efficiency across our products while collaborating with engineering teams throughout the organisation to deliver solutions that have broad and lasting impact.

We are looking for professionals who thrive in a culture that values trust and teamwork. You will play an important role in advancing key modernisation initiatives, contributing technical expertise, collaborating across product areas, and helping shape solutions that improve our platform and create value for our clients.

What You Will Be Responsible For

• Develop modern platform capabilities and contribute to application modernisation initiatives
• Deliver innovative user-facing capabilities that enhance user experience, increase adoption and support the evolution of our next-generation product landscape
• Build and maintain scalable backend services, ensuring performance and reliability
• Drive technical excellence through sound engineering practices, forward-thinking problem solving and continuous improvement of our products, platform and development processes
• Help support SimCorp's modern technology landscape by contributing to strategic engineering initiatives and architectural evolution
• Collaborate closely with product owners, architects and engineering teams across multiple product areas to deliver high-quality solutions that integrate seamlessly into the broader ecosystem
• Constantly learn and improve yourself, the team, and our product - for example by experimenting with modern engineering practices such mob programming, test driven development, AI driven development approaches, including prompt engineering, code generation, and AI supported testing and refactoring

What We Value

Most importantly, you see yourself contributing to and thriving in this role. We expect you to have deep expertise in several of the areas below, along with the willingness and curiosity to develop in the others.

• You have a degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Data Science or similar
• More than 5 years of experience working in software engineering
• Solid programming experience in C# and understanding of what good code means is mandatory
• Well-developed problem-solving skills and expertise in software engineering practices are required
• Solid understanding of data structures and algorithms, with solid testing, debugging, and analytical skills
• Knowledge in SQL and Oracle
• Experience in DevOps Tools and Parallel Programming
• Experience with working in an agile way and a continuous improvement mindset
• Experience working in an international setting with people from many different cultures
• Positive and constructive approach; you contribute to a productive and supportive work environment
• Initiative-driven, organized, and improvement-focused
• Effective communication skills and fluency in English (spoken and written)
• Experience with Agentic AI

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.
• Culture – 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
• Career & Growth – Simcorp does offer opportunities for professional development: there is never just only one route - we offer an individual approach to professional development to support the direction you want to take.

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 photos, 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, education, 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.