Job
- Level
- Experienced
- Job Field
- Back End
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
- Location
- Frankfurt
- Working Model
- Onsite
Job Summary
In this role, you will develop backend services and APIs for the DBG Marketplace platform, shape its architecture, support agile processes, and ensure the operational stability of the systems.
Job Technologies
Your role in the team
- The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) area is at the heart of the Information Technology division of Deutsche Börse Group. The CTO area develops and operates the group-wide IT infrastructure (network, data centers, and cloud), the Group Data & Advanced Analytics, and the Enterprise Architecture, which significantly contribute to Deutsche Börse Group's overall strategy. The CTO area drives digital transformation and leverages innovation, while maintaining stable production operations as the core pillars of the shared services.
- We're looking for a motivated and skilled Backend Engineer to join our team supporting the DBG Marketplace - a central platform in Deutsche Börse Group's digital ecosystem. You will help build and evolve the platform's backend services and APIs that power critical platform capabilities. In addition to strong engineering skills, you bring product thinking: you actively support the Product Owner in shaping outcomes, clarifying requirements, and driving agile ceremonies so the team can deliver the right things with high quality.
- Design, develop, and maintain backend services and APIs using Go.
- Build and evolve APIs used by the DBG Marketplace and integrating systems.
- Work on scalable, production-grade services, focusing on performance, reliability, and clean architecture.
- Design and maintain database interactions; ensure data integrity, performance, and clear ownership.
- Support production operations: monitoring, troubleshooting, and fixing issues in collaboration with DevOps.
- Contribute to API and service design decisions together with the Product Owner and the team.
- Support the Product Owner by clarifying requirements, reviewing technical feasibility, identifying dependencies and highlighting technical risks early.
- Lead or participate in agile ceremonies, code reviews, and backlog refinement to ensure predictable delivery.
- Contribute to continuous improvement of team practices.
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Our expectations of you
Education
- Bachelor's degree (or higher) in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
Qualifications
- Starkes Verständnis der Backend-Grundlagen: Datenmodelle, Service-Grenzen, Fehlerbehandlung und Performance
- Vertrautheit mit Git und gängigen kollaborativen Entwicklungs-Workflows
- Interest in understanding product context and user impact beyond pure implementation
- Ability to communicate clearly with engineers and product stakeholders to clarify scope and requirements
- Good written and spoken English
- Vertrautheit mit Cloud-Plattformen (vorzugsweise GCP; AWS/Azure akzeptabel)
- Knowledge of observability practices (logging, metrics, monitoring)
- Understanding of backend security basics (authentication, authorization, API protection)
Experience
- 2+ years of professional experience in backend or software engineering roles
- Solid experience with Go (Golang) in backend or server-side development
- Experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs
- Experience working with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) and writing efficient queries
- Experience working in agile teams (Scrum/Kanban)
- Experience with microservices architectures
- Experience supporting or operating production systems
- Experience with containerization (Docker) and CI/CD concepts
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Benefits
Work-Life-Integration
Health, Fitness & Fun
Higher Take-Home Pay
Food & Drink
Topics You Will Work On
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About Your Employer
Deutsche Börse AG
Deutsche Börse Group is one of the world's leading trading platforms. As a financial market organizer, the company offers a full range of services to cover the entire process: trading and clearing of securities and derivatives, netting and settlement of transactions, opening of accounts and provision of market information services.
Description
- Language
- English
- Company Type
- Established Company
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Industry
- Banking, Finance, Insurance
backend engineer
- Location
- Frankfurt
- Working Model
- Onsite
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
- English Only
- English only required
