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.

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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

Our team works at the intersection of quantitative investing and software engineering, developing systematic trading strategies, advanced optimization models, and scalable investment solutions for thousands of clients. Interns are exposed to a broad range of areas, including financial risk and tax optimization, automation of wealth management algorithms, and trading analytics. You’ll see how real-world financial challenges are translated into high-impact optimization problems using a cutting-edge technology stack. The specific focus of your internship will depend on current priorities and opportunities, but you will join a team where mathematical rigor, practical impact, and innovation define every project. This means you will experience the diversity of our challenges, even if you will ultimately specialize in one area during your time with us.

• Develop hands-on production code in Python as part of a highly motivated team of software engineers and quant developers, directly impacting billions of euros in assets and transforming the financial industry
• Support the development of interactive dashboards and monitoring tools for trade analysis and model validation
• Gain exposure to trading algorithms and burst computations capable of handling millions of trades in minutes and delivering unique, institutional-grade insights to clients
• Be part of a modern software engineering culture: agile teams, continuous integration and deployment, rigorous test automation, cloud-native infrastructure, and end-to-end observability
• Collaborate on projects that blend research and practice - learning how to rapidly deliver scientific ideas to production, bridge R&D with operational excellence, and see innovation directly influence business outcomes
• Never implement any of the above in spreadsheets
• Learn from industry-leading experts, deepen your understanding of financial engineering, regulatory frameworks, and quantitative modeling, and be empowered in a culture where the best ideas win

Qualifications

As a member of our Financial Engineering Team, you have

• Excellent academic background in a quantitative discipline (financial mathematics, computational finance, statistics or a similar field)
• Very good Python knowledge
• Knowledge of version control software, software development and software design
• You are available for min. 3 months
• Fluency in English (written & spoken)
• Excellent communication skills that are clear, concise, and targeted towards your audience - engineering, product, or other stakeholders

Preferred skills

• Experience with cloud providers like AWS
• Experience in relational databases / SQL
• Knowledge in econometrics, portfolio optimization and risk modelling
• Proactive and independent workstyle, good time management, fair play
• Passion for the global financial markets

We would be happy if you write to us in the "message to the Hiring Manager" section about what excites you about the role and why you think you would be a great fit! Applications without such motivation will not be considered.

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
• The ability to work with an international, diverse, inclusive, and ever-growing team that loves creating the best products for our clients
• Enjoy an office in the heart of Munich, located in a lively neighborhood and close to the English garden
• All internships are worth the same with us: we also remunerate mandatory internships
• Learn and grow by joining our in-house knowledge sharing sessions
• Work productively with the latest hardware and tools
• Free subscription to the PRIME+ Broker