Principal Software Developer (f/m/d) - Market Data

Solactive AG is a FinTech company operating globally and growing at a fast pace, headquartered in Frankfurt. Since 2007, we develop tailor-made and multi-asset class index solutions for ETFs and other index-linked investment products for the leading global investment banks and asset managers as our clients. Flexibility, efficiency, and providing the highest quality are at the heart and soul of our business philosophy. We are now hiring!

Our Market Data team forms an essential link between our business and infrastructure teams: it defines and implements business processes in data pipelines, monitors existing services, and thereby provides the best service to our customers. As a Senior Software Developer in our Market Data team, you will be working on a broad set of real-world problems. Highly effective data management, resilience, and fail-over strategies are some of our most important topics. In close collaboration with our business analysts and data engineers, you will create high-performance data processing solutions that scale using emerging technologies and approaches and help us define new best practices. 

Our continuous business growth and high requirements on accuracy, performance, and availability will provide you with a lot of engineering challenges and opportunities to contribute, to learn, and to grow as part of our team.   

You love solving complex problems, building performant, scalable, low latency, and highly available services. Then we can’t wait to meet you!

• Designing and implementing challenging projects to develop our data processing pipeline.
• Building up a data landscape that acts as the single source of all relevant data in the long run.
• Engineering ETL processes.
• Developing high performance APIs and streaming solutions to our clients and data vendors.
• Being an in-house consultant for best track, store, and access data.

• 8+ years of software development, data engineering, or relevant experience, including at least 5 years of in-depth Python experience.
• Software Engineering: good understanding of microservice architectures, Liskov’s Substitution Principle, design patterns, and dynamic dispatch.
• Databases: experience with at least one SQL/NoSQL database, such as MongoDB, PostgreSQL, or MySQL, including schema definition and evolution, as well as ORM frameworks such as SQLAlchemy, JPA, or Hibernate.
• Cloud / Cloud-native development: Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• CI/CD: ability to define build pipelines and perform, validate, and monitor deployments.
• Good understanding of microservice architectures.
• Ability to define Docker images according to the Twelve-Factor App methodology.
• Git: ability to use Git from the command line and apply version-control management practices (e.g., Gitflow, trunk-based development).
• Strong technical mentoring skills.
• Full professional proficiency in English.
• Communication: ability to illustrate ideas and concepts with figurative examples to both stakeholders and developers.
• Ability to perceive the business domain in terms of mathematical structures is appreciated.

• Be part of the Solactive family, a motivated team with an international setting.
• Get to know the dynamics of an established, successful FinTech company.
• Free choice of your gears to work comfortably and effectively.
• Experience a modern start-up culture with a flat hierarchy.
• Seize the opportunity to develop personally, take over responsibility and maintain direct customer contact from day one.
• Flexible work environment with a hybrid work model and 30 annual vacation days.
• Receive numerous benefits (e.g. Regular staff parties, team events, access to Corporate Benefits, modern office space, activity room, free beverages and fruit baskets).

Interested? Don’t miss your chance and directly apply online by clicking the “Apply now” button on our website and filling in the application form. Please make sure to also upload your CV, a cover letter is not compulsory. Your contact person is Anastasiia Nosenkova (