Staff Engineer - Client Technology

Company Description

Scalable Capital is a leading digital investment and banking platform with a full banking licence, empowering people across Europe to shape their own finances. Scalable Broker makes it easy and affordable for clients to invest professionally in stocks, ETFs, cryptocurrencies, and derivatives, as well as set up savings plans. Scalable Wealth, the digital wealth management service, offers clients professional investment in ETF portfolios, and is also adopted as a white-label solution by banks and other B2B partners. The company’s offerings are rounded off by attractive interest rates, loans, and private equity. With the European Investor Exchange, Scalable Capital offers an exchange specifically for retail investors. Over one million clients have already entrusted more than €30 billion to the platform.

Founded in 2014, Scalable Capital now employs over 700 people across Munich, Berlin, Vienna, Milan, and London. Together with the founding and management team, including Erik Podzuweit and Florian Prucker, they are working on a new generation of financial services.

Visit our finance blog or check out our Social Media channels to find out what our Expert Teams have to say.

Our Company Values guide us every day in how we work and collaborate. To learn more about them, you can find our values here (English).

Job Description

This role can be based in either Berlin or Munich.

You will join the Client Technology Tribe which provides state-of-the-art security to our clients in all aspects of authentication and to maintain and enhance identification processes through KYC. We ensure a convenient and legally-secure Terms&Conditions consent process, as well as GDPR-compliant data processing throughout the entire client journey. We are dedicated to developing and maintaining the Salesforce platform to improve our Marketing communication channels and client support process efficiency, and to maintaining and improving our public website.

The Client Technology Tribe aims to simplify complexity for our clients and continuously improve their experience in any interaction with us. Our ultimate goal is to ensure that Scalable is regarded as the most trusted brand in finance.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will operate at a Tribe level, providing technical leadership across multiple teams. You will be a primary driver of our technical strategy and vision, ensuring that our systems are not only robust and scalable today but are architected to meet the challenges of tomorrow. You will act as a force multiplier, elevating the technical bar for the entire organization through mentorship, architectural governance, and hands-on execution of our most complex challenges.

Key Responsibilities

• Technical Leadership & Strategy: Partner with the Tribe leadership team to define and drive the long-term technical roadmap for the Client Technology Tribe, aligning engineering efforts with overarching business goals.
• Architectural Excellence: Lead the design of complex, cross-cutting distributed systems. Ensure our microservices architecture remains resilient, scalable, and maintainable.
• Force Multiplier: Mentor Senior Engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning, technical rigor, and engineering excellence across multiple teams.
• Innovation & Best Practices: Evaluation and adoption of cutting-edge technologies and modern software practices. You will set the standards for how our engineers deliver software by championing things like AI automation, DevOps best practices and resilient architecture
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with Product Management, Design, Security, and DevOps to bridge the gap between business requirements and high-performance technical execution.
• Engineering Culture: Treat security and observability as first-class citizens, championing these values across the tribe's entire ecosystem.
• High-Impact Execution: Ability to navigate ambiguous problem spaces, in order to lead implementations of critical "zero-to-one" projects or complex refactors that require deep technical expertise and systems thinking.
   

Qualifications

• Extensive Technical Depth: Significant experience in design and implementation of complex and highly available distributed systems (6+ years), with a mastery of Java/Kotlin, Spring Boot, Nodejs/Typescript and AWS services (ECS, Fargate, Lambda).
• Proven Leadership: A track record of operating as a Staff or Principal Engineer or as a high-impact Senior Engineer within a complex, cloud-native environment.
• Systems Thinking: Deep expertise in designing and operating distributed systems at scale. Capable of evaluating trade offs between different API/ architecture styles (GraphQL vs Restful vs gRPC, sync vs async) and database technologies (relation vs non relational).
• Architectural Vision: Demonstrated ability to make high-stakes architectural trade-offs that balance immediate delivery with long-term maintainability.
• Strategic Communication: Exceptional ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders in clear, open, and concise English.
• You build it, you run it mindset: Advanced experience with modern DevOps, infrastructure and security best practices. Docker, Git, and modern security protocols (JWT, OAuth2) should be part of your day to day job. Experience driving "Shift Left" security and DevOps maturity is highly desirable.
• AI/ML Development Exposure: Experience in utilizing AI/ML tools or platforms to enhance software development processes, such as code generation, testing, or deployment automation.
• Domain Expertise: A background in the financial industry or developing highly regulated software products is a significant advantage.
• Academic Foundation: A university degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience in solving large-scale engineering problems.

Additional Information

• Be part of one of the fastest-growing and most visible Fintech startups in Europe, creating innovative services that have a substantial impact on the lives of our customers
• Work with an international, diverse, inclusive, and ever-growing team that loves creating the best products for our clients
• Work from our centrally located offices in the heart of Munich or Berlin, nestled in lively neighborhoods filled with vibrant restaurants, cozy cafés, and a wide range of convenient amenities or choose to work remotely within Germany (if eligible for the job)
• Be productive with the latest hardware and tools
• Learn and grow by joining our in-house knowledge sharing or career development sessions and spending your individual Education Budget 
• Learn and experience German culture first hand by joining our free German language classes
• International relocation support is provided if required 
• Opportunity to work from abroad
• Benefit from an attractive compensation package and from the company pension scheme
• Monthly contribution of 50% for the ‘Deutschland Jobticket’
• Say goodbye to order commissions and say hello to your complimentary subscription of Scalable Capital's PRIME+ Broker
• Enjoy flexible and discounted sports activities with Urban Sports Club