Staff Engineer (m/f/d)

About This Opportunity

We are representing a confidential financial technology organization in Berlin that is seeking a Staff Engineer to lead technical architecture for their core index development platform. This is a high-impact role where you'll shape the engineering foundation that enables scalable, consistent product delivery across the business.

Our talent team partners with innovative fintech companies to connect exceptional engineering leaders with career-defining opportunities. In this role, you'll work on business-critical systems that accelerate product development and improve quality across complex financial workflows.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical direction and architectural evolution of the domain, delivering scalable and maintainable solutions for internal and external users
• Drive complex initiatives end-to-end: clarify ambiguous requirements, shape solution approaches, and lead implementation across backend, frontend, data, and infrastructure
• Raise engineering standards through hands-on leadership, including code and design reviews, coaching, and maintaining focus on simplicity, quality, and maintainability
• Partner with product, business stakeholders, and engineering teams to identify core problems, challenge assumptions, and deliver solutions aligned with platform vision
• Design distributed services, APIs, integrations, data models, and cloud infrastructure, ensuring scalability, reliability, and operational readiness
• Improve engineering effectiveness by refining processes, reducing friction, strengthening ownership, and enabling better trade-offs between speed, quality, and risk
• Mentor engineers and support their growth in technical depth, ownership, and end-to-end delivery

What We're Looking For

• Strong hands-on software engineering background with 10+ years of experience and deep expertise in common programming languages (Java, Python, and TypeScript are used in this environment)
• Strong system design skills, including service decomposition, API design, integration patterns, data modeling, scalability, reliability, and operational concerns in cloud-native environments
• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes, including deploying, operating, and troubleshooting cloud-native applications in containerized environments
• Ability to lead ambiguous, business-heavy problem spaces: identify real requirements and root problems, structure chaos, and translate needs into quality technical solutions
• Proven track record of simplifying complex systems and delivering maintainable end-to-end solutions with high business impact
• Strong experience with modern engineering practices: code reviews, design reviews, CI/CD, testing strategy, observability, incident response, and production ownership
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to influence engineers, product managers, and business stakeholders without formal authority
• Product mindset and delivery orientation: balances technical quality with business value and drives initiatives to completion
• Experience with React and TypeScript frontend development is a plus

How We Work With You

When you apply through Get A Job.ai, our recruiting team will review your profile and schedule an initial screening conversation. We'll discuss your background, career goals, and the opportunity in detail. If there's a strong mutual fit, we will submit your profile to our client for consideration and guide you through their interview process. Please apply only through Get A Job.ai and do not contact the client directly.

Pay

Compensation details will be discussed during the screening process based on your experience and qualifications.

Location: Berlin, Germany (Hybrid work model with flexible hours)

Employment Type: Full-time

Get A Job.ai is an equal opportunity recruiter. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other protected characteristic.