About this role
<p>We’re flexible! We’re happy to receive applications in English or German.</p> <p> </p> <p>In this role you lead a team to develop our primary software for financial settlement of energy and commodity trades. Your work will directly influence the European power market - a growing market that is in search of further innovation. We process transaction data from the exchanges in front- and backend, serving and create interfaces to our own and external systems via messaging or webservices and create reports for various stakeholders, for example. We take a domain-driven approach and work closely with the business departments to understand their needs and develop efficient software solutions for them - this includes planning, design, and development of new functions. Technologies such as OpenShift for containerization are used, and the use of Google Cloud is also on the agenda.</p> <p>Our current tech stack is as follows:</p> <ul> <li>Java Web application with Spring/Spring Boot and Hibernate</li> <li>On-Premises solution with MySQL and OpenShift</li> <li>Google Cloud Platform (GCP) with e.g. Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, Pub/Sub</li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong>Your tasks:</strong></p> <ul> <li>You will manage people who are part of change teams, which include functions such as requirements specification, architecture, development, and testing</li> <li>You ensure the further development of your employees, resolve conflicts, provide feedback, and offer coaching</li> <li>To do this, you will coordinate closely with the other Heads, Product Owners, and Scrum Masters</li> <li>You ensure that a high level of technical and professional quality is achieved</li> <li>You remove obstacles, break down barriers, and enable your employees to be successful and satisfied while fulfilling their roles</li> </ul> <p>After all, we value the exchange of ideas, being there for each other and encouraging each other to become better. We call it: The Exchange Mindset.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Your skills:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Affinity for people management and experience in leading teams in software development</li> <li>Professional proficiency in an agile environment (Scrum approach)</li> <li>You understand yourself as Engineering Manager</li> <li>Good understanding of Domain Driven Design and modelling of IT systems</li> <li>Strong background in software engineering and methodology - combined with lots of hands-on experience</li> <li>Very good knowledge in at least one object-oriented language (preferably Java)</li> <li>Excellent communication skills on the management level and in general very good language skills in German and English</li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong>Why join us:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Attractive salary package with many benefits including childcare facilities, meal allowance, job ticket, sport and recreational events</li> <li>Flexible mobile working arrangements in a divers team</li> <li>Personal development thanks to extensive further training opportunities</li> <li>A place in a dynamic and international team within EEX Group and Deutsche Börse Group</li> <li>A long-term perspective in the constantly growing and evolving energy</li> <li>Bespoke onboarding plan</li> </ul> <p> </p>