Technical Team Lead, Scalable Capital
Data Platform
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Digital investment platform
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Digital investment platform
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
Scalable Capital's mission is to provide people with professional, intelligent, and at the same time cost-effective solutions for wealth creation, trading and investing.
Role
Who you are
- Several years (5+) of hands-on experience building, improving, and operating data platforms in high-volume production environments
- Expertise in AWS Cloud, especially their data-native service offering (S3, Glue, Athena, Redshift etc.)
- Expert level knowledge of IAM, KMS, networking, and security best practices in AWS
- Expert Level SQL & Python
- Skilled using Infrastructure as Code: e.g., Terraform, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation
- Workflow Orchestration: e.g., Apache Airflow, AWS Step Functions, or similar
- Data Modeling & Data Warehousing: Dimensional modeling, star/snowflake schemas; experience with Redshift, Snowflake, or BigQuery is a plus
- Containerization: Docker; Kubernetes is a plus
- Deep knowledge of Software Engineering best practices—from requirements specification, version control, CI/CD, and testing to deployment and monitoring of data pipelines and services
- Ability to balance the big picture (strategy, scaling) with hands-on engineering and problem-solving
- Strong skills in data modeling, pipeline design, and automation
- Data-native mindset: you think data-first and know how to design robust, scalable, and maintainable platforms
- Comfortable leveraging GenAI-assisted coding while maintaining high standards and thoughtful code reviews
- Proven experience leading, mentoring, and growing small expert teams
- Ability to act as a trusted advisor for other teams and communicate complex technical topics clearly
What the job involves
- As the leader of our Data Platform team, you’ll play a pivotal role in Scalable Capital’s data journey
- Your team is at the heart of our data infrastructure, responsible for improving, extending, and automating our data platforms
- In addition to leading and mentoring two talented data experts, you’ll act as a hands-on staff engineer, directly shaping our technology and best practices
- You and your team will serve as the go-to experts for data engineering and platform best practices - from data modeling and pipeline design to coding standards and security - empowering other data teams and promoting a truly data-driven culture across the company
- You'll lead, mentor, and inspire a small team of senior data engineers
- Own the architecture, development, and operation of our data platforms, ensuring scalability, security, and reliability
- Automate platform operations and streamline data workflows to increase efficiency and minimize manual intervention
- Act as the first point of contact for other data engineering teams on topics like platform usage, data modeling, pipeline design, and general data engineering best practices
- Collaborate cross-functionally to set standards and champion data engineering excellence across the organization incl. security concepts
- Remain hands-on: architect, code, review, and deploy critical data infrastructure solutions
- Drive adoption of modern tooling (including GenAI-assisted coding) while applying critical thinking to recommendations and outputs
Our take
Interest around investing in digital assets is increasing steadily due to innovations in fintech smartphone applications and the popularity of blockchain finance such as cryptocurrency. While stocks and cryptocurrency have a lot to do with this increase in popularity, it has also led to new investors learning about ETFs and index funds, meaning more people are looking for easier ways to invest.
Scalable Capital provides a free smartphone application for the investing and trading of stocks, cryptocurrencies, commission-free ETFs, and index funds, with subscription fees providing commission-free stock trading. The application also features a machine learning-driven robotrading service called Smart Predict to aid in improving users' limit and stop orders.
Whilst several other European investment platforms focus on commission-free trading, Scalable Capital has taken a fresh perspective by focusing on providing commission-free ETF investment. By doing this, the company encourages smart long-term ETF investments over riskier day-trading, tapping into a more mature market than applications focused on stocks. With further growth expected in 2024 after impressive Series E funding, Scalable Capital is carving out its market share.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
1% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Jun 2025
$175m
LATE VC
Dec 2023
$64.7m
SERIES E
Total funding: $555.2m
Company benefits
- Remote working opportunities - collaborate with your team no matter where you are in Germany: the majority of our jobs can be done working from home. So if you aren't near one of our physical locations in Germany, check out if your job is eligible remotely
- Join an international and diverse, inclusive community - be part of a network of highly talented, diverse and motivated people, from more than 30 nationalities. We enjoy regular office parties & after work drinks, BBQs in the summer, weekly runs and much more
- Lounge around - take a break to relax on our terrace in Munich or in the Beergarden downstairs in Berlin. Enjoy fresh fruits, soft drinks, and tea daily, and if want, develop your Barista skills with our Espresso machine
- Gear and perks - work with the latest hardware (including a MacBook Pro or equivalent and your choice of headphones). We also support your workplace with the equipment that you need, either in the offices or at home
- Learn and grow - develop yourself further with a personal education budget and in-house knowledge sharing sessions with catered lunch. If you want to learn or improve your German language skills, you will like the free classes right in the office or our support for online classes
- Have an impact - ship features to thousands of users and work with leading financial institutions across Europe on a regular basis. Transform with us the traditional finance industry with the aim of democratizing investment management and brokerage
Company HQ
Altstadt-Lehel, Munich, BY
Leadership
Erik Podzuweit
(Co-founder & Co-CEO)Experience as a Financial Analyst and Executive Director/VP for Goldman Sachs. Former Co-CEO (Germany) at Westwing Home & Living.
Florian Prucker
(Co-founder & Co-CEO)Vice President of Goldman Sachs from 2008 to 2014.
Patrick Pöschl
(Co-founder)Experience as Asset Structurer for Goldman Sachs from 2009 to 2014. Co-founded Scalable Capital in 2014.
Simon Miller
(Co-founder & Head of Broker International)Experienced as Base Metals Derivatives Trader for Barclays from 2008 to 2015. Co-founded Scalable Capital in 2014 as Business Developer.
Stefan Mittnik
(Co-founder)Experience as Professor at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich from 2003. Co-founded Scalable Capital in 2014.
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