About Deutsche Börse Group:

Headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany, Deutsche Börse Group is a leading international exchange organization and market infrastructure provider. They empower investors, financial institutions, and companies by facilitating access to global capital markets.

Their India centre is located in Hyderabad, serves as a key strategic hub and comprises India's top-tier tech talent. They focus on crafting advanced IT solutions that elevate market infrastructure and services. Deutsche Börse Group in India is composed of a team of capital market engineers forming the backbone of financial markets worldwide.

Backend Engineer (Golang)

Field of activity:

The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) area is at the heart of the Information Technology division of Deutsche Börse Group. The CTO area develops and operates the group-wide IT infrastructure (network, data centers and cloud), the Group Data & Advanced Analytics and the Enterprise Architecture which significantly contribute to Deutsche Börse Group overall strategy. The CTO area drives digital transformation and leverages innovation while keeping production operations stable are the core pillars of the shared services.

We're looking for a motivated and skilled Backend Engineer to join our team supporting the DBG Marketplace – a central platform in Deutsche Börse Group's digital ecosystem. You will help build and evolve the platform's backend services and APIs that power critical platform capabilities. In addition to strong engineering skills, you bring product thinking: you actively support the Product Owner in shaping outcomes, clarifying requirements, and driving agile ceremonies so the team can deliver the right things with high quality.

Tasks/responsibilities:

Design, develop, and maintain backend services and APIs using Go.
Build and evolve APIs used by DBG Marketplace and integrating systems.
Work on scalable, production-grade services, focusing on performance, reliability, and clean architecture.
Design and maintain database interactions; ensure data integrity, performance, and clear ownership.
Support production operations: monitoring, troubleshooting, and fixing issues in collaboration with DevOps.
Contribute to API and service design decisions together with the Product Owner and the team.
Support the Product Owner by clarifying requirements, reviewing technical feasibility, identifying dependencies and highlighting technical risks early.
Lead or participate in agile ceremonies, code reviews, and backlog refinement to ensure predictable delivery.
Contribute to continuous improvement of team practices.

Qualifications/required skills:

Required:

Bachelor's degree (or higher) in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
5+ years of professional experience in backend or software engineering roles[AS1]
Solid experience with Go (Golang) in backend or server-side development
Experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs
Strong understanding of backend fundamentals: data models, service boundaries, error handling, and performance
Experience working with relational databases (e.g. PostgreSQL, MySQL) and writing efficient queries
Familiarity with Git and standard collaborative development workflows
Experience working in agile teams (Scrum/Kanban)
Interest in understanding product context and user impact beyond pure implementation
Ability to communicate clearly with engineers and product stakeholders to clarify scope and requirements
Good written and spoken English.

Highly desirable:

Experience with microservices architectures
Experience supporting or operating production systems
Familiarity with cloud platforms (preferably GCP; AWS/Azure acceptable)
Experience with containerization (Docker) and CI/CD concepts
Knowledge of observability practices (logging, metrics, monitoring)
Understanding of backend security basics (authentication, authorization, API protection

Senior Associate - Lead Software Engineer (Golang)