Senior Principal Software Engineer. WHAT MAKES SIMCORP, SIMCORP? Join some of the most innovative thinkers in FinTech as SimCorp leads 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 SimCorps prestigious financial clients, say Hello to SimCorp!
At its foundation, SimCorp is guided by SimCorps values — caring, customer success-driven, collaborative, curious, and courageous. SimCorps people-centered organization focuses on skills development, relationship building, and client success. SimCorp takes pride in cultivating an environment where all team members can grow, feel heard, valued, and empowered. If you like what SimCorp is saying, keep reading!
WHY THIS ROLE IS IMPORTANT TO SIMCORP
You will be joining an innovative application development team within SimCorp's Product Division. SimCorp provides a cloud-native SaaS product built on Azure using modern development principles, technologies, and practices. The product, Digital Engagement Platform (DEP), has been operational for three years. Based on client feedback and SimCorps own experience, SimCorp has begun to lift the product to the next level, modernizing architecture and tech stack so SimCorp can scale DEP for a much larger audience than SimCorp can today. This is why SimCorp needs you – to help design and build a new DEP 2.0 that can support the biggest clients, asset managers, across the globe.
WHAT YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR
- Feature development.
- DevOps discussions and implementations.
- Design and Architecture: Work together with other software engineers and architects to define and refine the product architecture and roadmap.
- Guide and support other team members to ensure the spread of knowledge and experience.
- Keep up to date with the latest technologies and find ways to improve the existing software.
- Participate in support activities and client communication.
To be successful in this job, you are a very experienced developer. You have deep expertise in backend development and DevOps, and you are familiar with frontend development. You are a hands-on developer who loves to create high-quality code. You can offer technical direction, leadership, and collaboration with colleagues – architects and teammates – when creating an architecture, a design, or just troubleshooting.
WHAT SIMCORP VALUES
You probably have a degree in computer science and 10+ years of experience in development. However, how you gained your skills is of lesser importance – even though SimCorp does expect you to be highly experienced in:
- Backend development – C# and .NET.
- DevOps and CI/CD practices and tools.
- Azure and Azure DevOps.
- Application architecture and design, with a holistic view across front, back, and data.
- Agile development methodologies and collaboration.
These bullets above will be your primary focus areas, but in order to be successful, you will collaborate with teammates that are specialized in: Frontend development in Angular and TypeScript; Data engineering with Snowflake, dbt and Airflow.
Should these areas pique your interest, it will be possible to expand your expertise and learn and understand more about them. As a person, you have the following traits:
- You collaborate with team members to work towards common goals.
- Solid problem-solving skills, and comfortable questioning assumptions and as-is practices.
- A clear communicator who speaks up when needed.
- Exhibits a consistent approach and a creative mindset.
- Thrives in a collaborative environment and values teamwork.
- Likes to have fun at work and positivity comes easily to you.
BENEFITS
Attractive salary, bonus scheme, and pension are essential for any work agreement. However, in SimCorp, SimCorp believes SimCorp can offer more. Therefore, in addition to the traditional benefit scheme, SimCorp provides a good work-life balance: flexible working hours and a hybrid model.
SimCorp follows a global hybrid policy, asking employees to work from the office two days each week while allowing remote work on other days. SimCorp does offer opportunities for professional development: there is never just one route – SimCorp offers an individual approach to professional development to support the direction you want to take.
NEXT STEPS
At SimCorp, SimCorp recognizes that bias can unintentionally occur in the recruitment process. To uphold fairness and equal opportunities for all applicants, SimCorp kindly asks you to exclude personal data such as photo, age, or any non-professional information from your application. Thank you for aiding SimCorp in SimCorps endeavor to mitigate biases in SimCorps recruitment process. For any questions, you are welcome to contact Aditya.gurijala@simcorp.com.
WHO SIMCORP IS
For over 50 years, SimCorp has worked closely with investment and asset managers to become the world’s leading provider of integrated investment management solutions. SimCorp has 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, SimCorp leverages the combined strength of SimCorps brands to provide an industry-leading, full, front-to-back offering for SimCorps clients. SimCorp is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applicants from all backgrounds, without regard to race, gender, age, disability, or any other protected status under applicable law. SimCorp is committed to building a culture where diverse perspectives and expertise are integrated into SimCorps everyday work. SimCorp believes in the continual growth and development of SimCorps employees, so that SimCorp can provide best-in-class solutions to SimCorps clients.
SimCorp is a provider of industry-leading integrated investment management solutions for the global buy side. Founded in 1971, with more than 3,000 employees across five continents, SimCorp is a truly global technology leader that empowers more than half of the world’s top 100 financial companies through its integrated platform, services, and partner ecosystem. SimCorp is a subsidiary of Deutsche Börse Group. As of 2024, SimCorp includes Axioma, the leading provider of risk management and portfolio optimization solutions for the global buy side.
