Company Description
Since its creation in 2007 in the financial city of Frankfurt am Main, Solactive AG has grown to one of the key players in the indexing space. The German multi-asset index provider focusses on tailor-made indices, offering to its clients a faster service, with greater flexibility and at a reasonable cost. Solactive AG and its subsidiaries have become one of the fastest growing index providers over the past few years and support the leading investment banks and asset managers across the globe.
Job Overview
As a Senior Fullstack Software Engineer in the ANR team, you will be primarily a backend engineer with fullstack capabilities (~80% backend / 20% frontend). You will design, build, and operate the services and pipelines that aggregate financial data, render client-facing documents, and deliver them through APIs and automated push mechanisms. You will also contribute to the internal tooling and lightweight frontends that support the team's products.
You will take ownership of complex features end-to-end, drive technical decisions within your area, mentor less experienced engineers, and collaborate with DevOps and other engineering teams. We are looking for engineers who don't wait to be told what to build next, who proactively spot gaps, propose improvements, and turn ambiguity into shipped work.
Your Tasks
- Design, implement, and operate backend services in Java (Spring Boot) that power data aggregation, rendering, and customer delivery.
- Integrate with Apache Kafka and GCP Pub/Sub for event-driven data flows; consume, transform, and cache data from upstream data points in a reliable and recoverable manner.
- Build and maintain public APIs and automated document delivery pipelines (push to customer servers, on-demand retrieval).
- Contribute to the document rendering architecture, keeping it extensible for both standard and custom, client-specific documents.
- Develop the internal frontend tooling required by the team and its products; help define the frontend stack as the team evolves.
- Write SQL and work with relational databases, including query optimization and schema design for reporting workloads.
- Set up and maintain CI/CD pipelines and contribute to DevOps practices within the team.
- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers, promote engineering best practices, and contribute to code reviews and knowledge sharing.
- Collaborate with business stakeholders to translate reporting requirements into reliable technical solutions.
Your Profile
Must Have
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a strong backend focus.
- Deep expertise in Java and Spring Boot, including production-grade service design.
- Solid experience with Apache Kafka (or comparable event streaming platforms).
- Experience designing and operating services on a major public cloud (GCP, AWS, or Azure); cloud-agnostic mindset.
- Strong SQL skills and hands-on experience with relational databases.
- Experience with containerization (Docker) and orchestration.
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
- Practical fullstack ability: comfortable building internal tooling / lightweight frontends.
- Track record of designing scalable, resilient systems and taking features from concept to production.
- The ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
Nice to have
- Experience with GCP in particular (Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage / buckets).
- Working knowledge of Python (the team has Python components).
- Working knowledge of TypeScript.
- Experience with document generation / rendering pipelines (PDF, XLS/CSV, templated reports).
- Familiarity with the financial domain, index data, or reporting for financial institutions and regulatory bodies.
- Experience designing and exposing public APIs for external clients
Our Offer
- Global Team: Join our motivated international team at Solactive
- FinTech Excellence: Experience FinTech excellence at Solactive
- Modern Culture: Enjoy our modern, flat hierarchy and startup-like culture
- Responsibility & Connections: Take over responsibility from day one and build relationships in- and outside the company
- Vacation: Enjoy 30 annual vacation days, plus extra time off for Christmas Eve and New Year
- Competitive Compensation
- Special Benefits: Job ticket, access to Corporate Benefits, modern office space with ergonomic set-up, employee lounge, and free beverages and fruits
- Community & Networking: Engage in our various networking events
- Professional Development: Grow both personally and professionally through our diverse training offers
- Flexibility: Embrace a flexible work culture with the freedom to choose your work hours, including a hybrid work model