Senior Front Office Engineer - Cary

Position Overview · Job Title Senior Front Office Engineer · Corporate Title Assistant Vice President · Location Cary, NC · Who We Are · In short – an essential part of Deutsche Bank's technology solution, developing applications for key business areas. · Our Technologists drive ...

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Position Overview

Job Title Senior Front Office Engineer

Corporate Title Assistant Vice President

Location Cary, NC

Who We Are

In short – an essential part of Deutsche Bank's technology solution, developing applications for key business areas.

Our Technologists drive Cloud, Cyber and business technology strategy while transforming it within a robust, hands-on engineering culture.

Learning is a key element of our people strategy, and we have a variety of options for you to develop professionally.

Our approach to the future of work champions flexibility and is rooted in the understanding that there have been dramatic shifts in the ways we work.

Having first established a presence in the Americas in the 19th century, Deutsche Bank opened its US technology center in Cary, North Carolina in 2009.

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Overview

Join a front office engineering team building and evolving Deutsche Bank's electronic trading platform for Fixed Income & Currencies.

You'll work across infrastructure, connectivity, pricing, risk, and order/routing services—partnering directly with traders, sales, quants, and product to deliver resilient, high throughput, real time capabilities.

As part of our global engineering team, you'll contribute across the full product lifecycle—from architecture and implementation to production support—with a primary focus on optimizing high performance, low latency, Java based back end components that power our global trading operations.

What We Offer You

A diverse and inclusive environment that embraces change, innovation, and collaboration
A hybrid working model with up to 60% work from home, allowing for in-office / work from home flexibility, generous vacation, personal and volunteer days, a commitment to Corporate Social Responsibility
Employee Resource Groups support an inclusive workplace for everyone and promote community engagement
Access to a strong network of Communities of Practice connecting you to colleagues with shared interests and values
Competitive compensation packages including health and wellbeing benefits, retirement savings plans, parental leave, and family building benefits, educational resources, matching gift and volunteer programs

What You'll Do

Design, build, and operate real time, event driven microservices for pricing, RFQ, trade capture, and risk—optimizing for low latency and high throughput
Engage business stakeholders (traders, sales, quants) to translate desk needs into technical designs and iterative deliveries for front office workflows
Apply solid engineering and software development life cycle (SDLC) practices: requirements/analysis, design patterns, code reviews, automated testing, secure by design implementation, and controlled releases
Continuously tune performance (GC, threading, IO, network) and improve resiliency (fault tolerance, graceful degradation, back pressure)
Partner with Quality Assurance (QA) on test automation and with DevOps/ Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) on continuous integration/continuous deployment (or development) (CI/CD), observability, and production reliability (including on call rotations); investigate incidents and lead remediation to ensure stable environments
Collaborate with a global engineering team to develop modern solution

Skills You'll Need

Strong Core Java expertise (collections, concurrency/multi‑threading, networking, memory/GC tuning) with proven performance optimization of distributed services
Hands‑on experience building real‑time systems (e.g., pricing, market data, risk, order flow) and working with messaging / event streaming (Solace, Kafka, Java Message Service (JMS)/IBM Message Queue (MQ) or similar)
Solid Linux fundamentals; working knowledge of SQL/relational databases; familiarity with caches and asynchronous patterns
Proficiency with engineering tooling across the


SDLC:
Git, Maven, CI/CD (Jenkins/TeamCity), artifact repositories (e.g.

, Artifactory), issue tracking (Jira), Test discipline:
test driven development (or design) (TDD)/ behavior driven development (or design) (BDD) using frameworks like JUnit and Cucumber
Practical Agile team experience (Scrum/Kanban), with strong communication and stakeholder collaboration in a fast‑moving front‑office context

Skills That Will Help You Excel

Domain knowledge in Fixed Income & Derivatives and familiarity with market‑data/trading ecosystems
Experience designing and operating highly available microservices; cloud exposure (Global Control Programme (GCP) or similar)
Comfortable improving delivery standards, tooling, and working practices; able to analyze services/components and drive iterative improvements
Ownership mindset, analytical problem‑solving, and the ability to build consensus across technology and business teams

Expectations

It is the Bank's expectation that employees hired into this role will work in the Cary office in accordance with the Bank's hybrid working model.

Deutsche Bank provides reasonable accommodations to candidates and employees with a substantiated need based on disability and/or religion.

The salary range for this position in Cary is $100,000 to $142,250.

Actual salaries may be based on a number of factors including, but not limited to, a candidate's skill set, experience, education, work location and other qualifications.

Posted salary ranges do not include incentive compensation or any other type of remuneration.

Deutsche Bank Benefits

At Deutsche Bank, we recognize that our benefit programs have a profound impact on our colleagues.

That's why we are focused on providing benefits and perks that enable our colleagues to live authenti­cally and be their whole selves, at every stage of life.

We provide access to physical, emotional, and financial wellness benefits that allow our colleagues to stay financially secure and strike balance between work and home.

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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.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

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