Senior Engineer, AVP

Job Description:

Job Title: Senior Engineer (Technology, India)

Corporate Title: Assistant Vice President

Division: Corporate Bank Technology

Location: Pune, India

Overview:

Corporate Banking is a technology centric business, with an increasing move to real-time processing, an increasing appetite from customers for integrated systems and access to supporting data.  This means that technology is more important than ever for business.

Deutsche Bank is one of the few banks with the scale and network to compete aggressively in this space, and the breadth of investment in this area is unmatched by our peers. Joining the team is a unique opportunity to help rebuild the core of some of our most mission critical processing systems from the ground-up.

Our Corporate Bank Technology team is a global team across 30 countries. The primary businesses that we support within Corporate Bank are Cash Management, Securities Services, Trade Finance and Trust & Agency Services. CB Technology supports these businesses through ‘vertical’ CIO aligned teams and by ‘horizontals’ such as Client Connectivity, Surveillance and Regulatory, Infrastructure, Architecture, Production, and Risk & Control.

What we’ll offer you

As part of our flexible scheme, here are just some of the benefits that you’ll enjoy.

• Best in class leave policy
• Gender neutral parental leaves
• 100% reimbursement under childcare assistance benefit (gender neutral)
• Flexible working arrangements / Work from Home Option (if necessary)
• On job training on various International Reporting Standards relevant to the profile
• Sponsorship for Industry relevant certifications and education
• Employee Assistance Program for you and your family members
• Comprehensive Hospitalization Insurance for you and your dependents
• Accident and Term Life Insurance
• Complementary Health screening for 35 yrs. and above

Your Role - What You’ll Do   

As a Senior Engineer in the Payments team, you will help design, build, and operate the backend services that power our payment platform. You will be a hands-on contributor in a focused engineering team, partnering with leads and colleagues across product, UI, testing, and platform teams.

This is a backend-focused role, with full-stack experience an advantage. You will contribute to technical design, implementation, testing, deployment, and production support, while helping the team apply modern engineering practices and AI tools responsibly.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and deploy high-quality, scalable backend microservices for the payment platform using Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, and related technologies.
• Partner with the architects on solution design and participate actively in code reviews to ensure alignment with architectural principles and maintain high code quality standards.
• Implement robust integrations with internal and external systems.
• Champion a "shift-left" approach to quality by writing comprehensive unit, integration, and end-to-end tests for all new features.
• Contribute to the operational health of the platform by participating in troubleshooting, and incident resolution as part of our "you build it, you run it" culture.
• Collaborate with the DevOps engineer to ensure services are observable, easy to deploy, and meet non-functional requirements for performance and reliability.

Skills You’ll Need

• 9–14 years of software engineering experience, with a strong focus on building robust, scalable backend systems.
• Strong hands-on experience with Java 17 or later and Spring Boot.
• Strong experience with system design, common design patterns, multithreading, and performance optimization.
• Solid understanding of microservices architecture, RESTful APIs, and distributed-systems principles.
• Practical experience with event-driven architecture and messaging systems, particularly Kafka.
• Experience with relational and non-relational databases such as PostgreSQL, MongoDb
• Experience with in-memory data stores and caching, such as Redis or Memcached
• Experience building or operating cloud-native applications; GCP experience is preferred.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Git, CI/CD pipelines, and Agile development.
• A strong commitment to quality with hands-on experience in writing various levels of automated tests (unit, integration, E2E, BDD).
• Hands-on experience writing and maintaining automated tests, including unit, integration, end-to-end, and BDD tests.
• Strong problem-solving skills, including the ability to debug complex issues across multiple services.
• Hands-on use of AI coding assistants, or experimentation with LLMs and AI APIs.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a lean engineering team.
• Preferred experience in payments, financial services, or other environments with high security, availability, and regulatory requirements.
• Preferred full-stack development experience, particularly with React and TypeScript.
• undefined  Deutsche Bank is an equal opportunity employer who seeks to recruit and appoint the best available person for a job regardless of marital / civil partnership status, sex (including pregnancy), age, religion, belief, race, nationality and ethnic or national origin, colour, sexual orientation or disability. Please let us know if you require any adjustments to enable you to apply or attend an interview. If you would like to discuss your requirements, or have any concerns about the application process, please contact your recruiter.

Proven ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, optimise workflows to solve business problems, while applying critical judgment to ensure responsible and ethical use of data and AI outputs.

How we’ll support you

• Training and development to help you excel in your career
• Coaching and support from experts in your team
• A culture of continuous learning to aid progression
• A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs

About us and our teams

Please visit our company website for further information:

https://www.db.com/company/company.html

We strive for a culture in which we are empowered to excel together every day. This includes acting responsibly, thinking commercially, taking initiative and working collaboratively.

Together we share and celebrate the successes of our people. Together we are Deutsche Bank Group.

We welcome applications from all people and promote a positive, fair and inclusive work environment.