Connectivity and Messaging Engineer - Berenberg Bank

In an era where digitalisation and modern IT infrastructure is revolutionizing banking, we are shaping a technology-driven bank in which you as an IT professional will work closely with our business units. Our technology teams offer you an environment that will present you with exciting challenges - be it through the support and further development of legacy systems or the introduction of modern technologies such as AI, machine learning and highly automated trading applications.

Your Role in the team:

We are about to start the next major overhaul of ULTRA, Berenberg's connectivity and messaging platform. Working on this new version of ULTRA will offer ample opportunity to adopt new concepts, ideas and technologies what will allow ULTRA to stay ahead of future demands.

As engineer in this role you will be working on our in-house micro-service, fully Kubernetes (K8s) deployed connectivity & messaging platform ULTRA, which enables practically all application in our IB trading stack to talk to each other in a flexible, reliable and secure manner. ULTRA also provides our FIX based client and exchange connectivity.

What will you do?

1. Working on ULTRA puts you right into the middle of IB engineering life as you will be collaborating and interfacing practically with all other IB teams and most other systems
2. You will also be responsible to work on new exchange gateway implementations, their ongoing maintenance as exchanges evolve their gateways
3. Being such a mission-critical system which typically runs 24/7, any new features and changes to ULTRA will have to be fully tested in an automated manner. The role also comes with support responsibilities of varying degree

1. Deep and solid experience with Java creating scalable, understandable and fully tested code for low-latency, high-throughput applications
2. Profound OOA & OOD skills, deep understanding of multi-threading as well as general concepts of messaging patterns (point-to-point, pub/sub etc, event-driven)
3. Experienced with the full development life-cycle: implementation, review, full automated testing, release and familiarity with the processes and tools this typically includes (CI/CD pipelines etc)
4. Profound understanding of the FIX protocol and how FIX engines generally work
5. TCP/IP, UDP - good understanding of IP networks, such as routing tables, subnets, BGP
6. Working with containers (aka Docker) and Kubernetes highly advantageous
7. Somebody who naturally and continuously strives to improve a product and its 'eco-system' (which includes CI/CD pipelines, automated [performance] testing, [performance] monitoring) and can do so by 'keeping things simple'

1. Private pension plan - 10% of base salary contribution by Berenberg
2. Generous 30 day holiday allowance
3. Private Health Insurance
4. Life Insurance scheme
5. Flexible working hours
6. Enhanced parental leave policies
7. Employee Assistance Programme offering counselling sessions related to mental health, financial wellbeing and other topics

We are a leading European private bank, with over 430 years of experience and deep rooted history, but we are still shaping and heavily investing in our future. Our progress and evolution are driven by our people. We encourage them to try new approaches, voice their opinions and achieve success in their own way. We provide opportunities for them to develop their talents, explore different career paths and achieve their full potential. We're an ambitious, forward-looking business, backed by centuries of tradition and built on innovation. You'll find a culture that encourages people to think independently, act entrepreneurially and challenge the status quo. We place great importance on working on site, as we believe that being together in the office not only fosters creativity and efficiency, but also strengthens networks and builds trusting, collegial relationships. For us, this forms the foundation for productive and successful work. Together we collaborate to shape our business and fulfil our ambitious goals. We welcome you to join us in our commitment to always do the right thing for our people, clients and our business - Our future is where you take us! We will only accept applications submitted through our online application management system on the website. Berenberg is an Equal Opportunities Employer and prides itself on being a modern, dynamic and internationally orientated organisation. We value the rich diversity, skills and abilities and creative potential that people from differing backgrounds and experiences bring to the workplace. Every employee plays a vital role in providing quality service to all our customers and helping to create and inclusive working environment, where everyone can realise their full potential. We're committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates who require adjustments during our recruiting process. Please contact us directly on to discuss. Reference: 57128536