Senior Java Developer (f/m/d)

Area of work:

Deutsche Börse Group is one of the largest exchange organizations worldwide. As a financial marketplace organizer, the company provides a portfolio of services covering the entire process chain: securities and derivatives trading and clearing, netting and transaction settlement, custody and provision of market information. Information Technology designs, builds and operates the technological infrastructure of the company. These highly integrated and automated IT systems are essential to our success.

We are looking for skilled Java developers to join our IT development center in Prague and help us advance and maintain the functionality and technology of our systems. You will be involved in the technical design of new functional requirements, continuous improvement of existing solutions and support of running systems.

You will acquire insight into financial market products and settlements processes for payment and financial instrument settlement. The diverse set of business stakeholders, customer requirements and business processes of exchanges will challenge your business skills while the high reliability, scalability and performance requirements of our systems will challenge your technical skills.

This assignment will provide an opportunity to travel to Frankfurt – on trips to align with stakeholders.

Your responsibilities:

• Contribute to and extend system architecture and application design.
• Investigate production issues and support requests to determine root causes and implement effective, long-term solutions.
• Design, develop, and maintain new and existing application features.
• Mentor junior developers and align with senior peers on coding standards and best practices.
• Conduct code reviews and ensure adherence to coding standards and architectural guidelines.
• Engage with business stakeholders and analysts to clarify requirements and propose technical solutions.
• Collaborate to improve CI/CD pipelines and increase automation (desirable but not mandatory).

Your profile:

• Extensive professional experience in backend development with Java, Spring (SpringBoot) and SQL (PostgreSQL).
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with a design-thinking mindset.
• Solid understanding of service-oriented architecture is essential.
• A collaborative team player with a proactive attitude and willingness to learn.
• Ability to effectively discuss project topics and technical solutions with business stakeholders and analysts.
• University degree in Computer Science or Economics/Finance or equivalent professional experience.

Nice to have:

• Experience with Linux, Kubernetes/OpenShift, RESTful API, and messages queues (AMQP)
• Familiarity with frontend technologies such as TypeScript, React, or GWT.
• Hands-on experience with JIRA, Git, Jenkins, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Knowledge of infrastructure automation tools like Ansible or Terraform.
• Exposure to Agile methodologies, especially Scrum.

You can look forward to our benefit package:

• Hybrid Work and Flexible working hours
• Work from abroad - 12 days of remote work from EU countries per year
• Group Share Plan - discount on company shares
• Pension fund contribution - 3% of your gross salary (5% after 5 years with us)
• Health & Wellbeing - fully covered Multisport card, life & accident insurance, sick days and 100% salary contribution during sick leave (up to 56 days)
• 25 vacation days
• Mobility - fully covered public transport in Prague & free parking
• Flexible Benefit Account (Pluxee) - 1200 per month
• Personal Development - annual budget of €690 ... and way more!