Company Description

Scalable Capital is a leading digital investment platform in Europe. The company empowers everyone to shape their financial future. Scalable Broker makes it easy and affordable for clients to invest professionally in stocks, ETFs and other exchange-traded products and 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 renowned B2B partners. With the European Investor Exchange (EIX) Scalable Capital offers a stock exchange for retail investors in Europe. Over 27 billion euro is held on the platform by more than one million clients.

Scalable Capital was founded in 2014 and employs more than 500 people at its offices in Munich, Berlin, Vienna, and London. Together with the founding and management team around Erik Podzuweit and Florian Prucker, they are working on a new generation of financial services.

Visit our finance blog or check out our Social Media channels to find out what our Expert Teams have to say.

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

Your mission: take an already high-performing team to the next level. This unit powers core services - wealth management, market making, risk management, regulation, and more - with outstanding efficiency and feature delivery. We are committed to finding a leader who leads by example and truly lives best practices. You will manage a focused team of five, united by a long-term vision, strong culture, and real independence.

The ideal candidate will have a strong background in our tech stack, especially Python. Proficiency in AWS services, serverless architecture and system design are essential, as is a deep understanding of various databases. You recognize the importance of people management and are committed to it, knowing that few can do it well.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and inspire a team of dedicated Python backend engineers, empowering quant development tech units to deliver services beyond what competitors can imagine.
• Design and build new platforms for our customers using cutting-edge technology and modern software practices such as agile teams, test automation, and cloud-based infrastructure. Remain open to replacing your system when a better alternative emerges.
• Drive legacy systems forward, remembering that every service here has been rewritten multiple times - reflecting our commitment to progress, not complacency. Our legacy is about leaving a meaningful mark, not tech debt.
• Select tools for storing, processing, and visualizing large and evolving datasets from diverse sources - we are a data-centric team that treats data with respect.
• Write clean, testable and maintainable code and treat clarity as a first class citizen.
• Prioritize tangible business results and maintain a business-first approach in all engineering decisions.
• Promote teamwork, open communication, and knowledge sharing among colleagues.
• Create the next generation wealth management and brokerage services for everybody.
• Tech stack: Python, DevOps, Docker, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as a Code (Terraform), AWS services such as Lambda, SQS, SNS, ECS, Step Functions, Aurora, DynamoDB, Glue, Athena and event-based asynchronous architectures.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend experience in Python (mandatory)
• Leadership experience - culture matters more than tenure
• Hands-on experience with AWS services
• Industry experience with Docker, Git and RESTful API
• Excellent knowledge in data-driven business applications
• Excellent communication skills (in English) that are clear, concise, and tailored to your audience - engineering, product, or other stakeholders
• Proactive, collaborative and easy-going working style, good time management, fair play

We would be happy if you'd 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!

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
• Work with an international, diverse, inclusive, and ever-growing team that loves creating the best products for our clients
• Enjoy an office in a great location in the middle of Munich or Prenzlauer Berg, a vibrant district surrounded by an exciting array of restaurants, cafés and convenient amenities
• Be productive with the latest hardware and tools
• Learn and grow by joining our in-house knowledge sharing sessions and spending your individual Education Budget
• Learn and experience German culture first hand by joining our free German language classes
• (International) relocation support
• Flexible vacation policy and the opportunity to work from abroad
• Benefit from an attractive compensation package and from the company pension scheme
• Monthly contribution of 25% for the ‘Deutschland Jobticket’
• Say goodbye to order commissions and say hello to your complimentary subscription of Scalable Capital's PRIME+ Broker