Principal Engineer, Deutsche Bank
Full Stack, Go / GCP / AI
Office located in Upper Bank Street, London
Investment bank and financial services company
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Investment bank and financial services company
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
Office located in Upper Bank Street, London
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be the leading global provider of financial solutions for demanding clients, creating exceptional value for its shareholders and people.
Role
Who you are
- Principal or Staff Engineer experience in fintech or high scale SaaS, including regulated environments, with a proven record of personally shipping core platform or product capabilities (marketplaces, integrations, partner ecosystems, developer platforms)
- Strong production expertise in Go and modern backend engineering, including APIs, microservices, event driven and distributed systems, data handling, SRE practices, IaC (e.g. Terraform), and Kubernetes
- Extensive hands on experience running production workloads on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), covering security, networking, IAM, deployments, observability, and cloud native operations
- Full stack capability, taking product requirements from architecture through implementation to production operations
- Recent hands on coding experience (last 6–12 months), with deep debugging skills, systems thinking, and ownership in live environments; experience implementing AI features in production (e.g. RAG, tool integration, evaluation, monitoring, model/vendor selection)
- Clear evidence of engineering passion: curiosity, craftsmanship, continuous learning, a strong bias to build, and a focus on simplifying complexity and improving developer experience in fast paced, regulated fintech or large-scale SaaS contexts
What the job involves
- Synthix is building a SaaS native marketplace of financial solutions—a tech first platform that plugs into client workflows and connects them to an ecosystem of partners (banks, PSPs, ERPs, and data providers) through a single integration
- We combine institutional credibility and reach with startup level engineering agility. We are deliberately strengthening our engineering capability with inspirational, hands on technical leadership—people who ship, raise the bar on quality, and deliver enterprise grade reliability at fintech speed
- This is a builder role. You’ll be a Principal level engineer who codes regularly, sets technical direction through doing, and helps scale a high performance product engineering culture
- A healthy, engaged and well-supported workforce are better equipped to do their best work and, more importantly, enjoy their lives inside and outside the workplace. That’s why we are committed to providing an environment with your development and wellbeing at its centre
- Develop production ready features in Go, delivering robust backend services and APIs alongside full stack solutions spanning UI, data, performance, and operability
- Establish and continuously improve engineering practices including service templates, libraries, developer experience (DX), and CI/CD pipelines
- Provide technical leadership by clarifying architecture decisions, navigating trade offs, and defining clear “golden paths.”
- Mentor engineers to improve code quality, system design, debugging skills, and readiness for production deployment
- Drive reliability and operational excellence through improved observability, incident response, resilience (SLOs, error budgets, postmortems), and scalable delivery processes
- Build AI driven features with measurable impact, focusing on evaluation, feedback loops, safety, cost controls, and practical AI patterns such as retrieval, workflow automation, copilots, and intelligent triage
Application process
- End Date: March 28, 2026
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Deutsche Bank is one of Europe's biggest banks, operating in around 60 countries. It has a long history but hasn't struggled to keep up with the changing times. Like launching Vert, a digital payments service for small and medium businesses, and focusing on investments that are good for the environment and society.
The banks performance in 2025 has been impressive too. In the first nine months, pre-tax profit reached €7.7B (up 64% from last year) and net profit climbed to €5.6B (a 76% increase). And all business divisions delivered double-digit profit growth, supported by revenue gains and disciplined cost management.
If this wasn't impressive enough, the bank is also making strong progress in ESG, reporting €23B in sustainable financing in the third quarter of 2025 alone. With these healthy finances, a clear strategic direction, and a focus on responsible growth, Deutsche Bank is in a very promising position for the future.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
11% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
Westend-Süd, Frankfurt, Germany
Leadership
Christian Sewing
(CEO)Christian joined Deutsche Bank in 1989 as a Banking Apprentice. Since then, he has held a number of roles and became CEO in 2018.
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