Staff Engineer - Client Technology (m / f / x)

Job Description

This role can be based in either Berlin or Munich.

You will join the Client Technology Tribe which provides state-of-the-art security to our clients in all aspects of authentication and to maintain and enhance identification processes through KYC. We ensure a convenient and legally-secure Terms&Conditions consent process, as well as GDPR-compliant data processing throughout the entire client journey. We are dedicated to developing and maintaining the Salesforce platform to improve our Marketing communication channels and client support process efficiency, and to maintaining and improving our public website.

The Client Technology Tribe aims to simplify complexity for our clients and continuously improve their experience in any interaction with us. Our ultimate goal is to ensure that Scalable is regarded as the most trusted brand in finance.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will operate at a Tribe level, providing technical leadership across multiple teams. You will be a primary driver of our technical strategy and vision, ensuring that our systems are not only robust and scalable today but are architected to meet the challenges of tomorrow. You will act as a force multiplier, elevating the technical bar for the entire organization through mentorship, architectural governance, and hands-on execution of our most complex challenges.

Key Responsibilities

• Technical Leadership & Strategy : Partner with the Tribe leadership team to define and drive the long-term technical roadmap for the Client Technology Tribe, aligning engineering efforts with overarching business goals.
• Architectural Excellence : Lead the design of complex, cross-cutting distributed systems. Ensure our microservices architecture remains resilient, scalable, and maintainable.
• Force Multiplier : Mentor Senior Engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning, technical rigor, and engineering excellence across multiple teams.
• Innovation & Best Practices : Evaluation and adoption of cutting-edge technologies and modern software practices. You will set the standards for how our engineers deliver software by championing things like AI automation, DevOps best practices and resilient architecture
• Cross-Functional Collaboration : Partner closely with Product Management, Design, Security, and DevOps to bridge the gap between business requirements and high-performance technical execution.
• Engineering Culture : Treat security and observability as first-class citizens, championing these values across the tribe's entire ecosystem.

High-Impact Execution : Ability to navigate ambiguous problem spaces, in order to lead implementations of critical "zero-to-one" projects or complex refactors that require deep technical expertise and systems thinking.

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