About the Opportunity
Job Type: PermanentApplication Deadline: 31 July 2025
Title Senior Engineering Lead (Java Development)
Department Technology German Platform and Advisory
Location Kronberg im Taunus, Germany
Level Grade - 6
For over 50 years, we’ve been helping our clients build better financial futures. How? By working together, supporting each other across the globe, and constantly exploring new technologies and innovative ways of working - always with our clients at the heart of what we do.
Bring your boldest ideas to our engineering team and make a meaningful impact.
About your team
Join a growing, forward-looking team embarking on a technical modernization programme. You’ll bring your own ideas, insights, and experience to the table as part of a cross-functional agile team.
Together, we’re developing and enhancing our web platform - serving over 600.000 clients and managing more than €40 billion in assets. You’ll also play a key role in our engineering leadership team, helping to shape our long-term strategy for mobile and web technologies.
About your role
You’ll take end-to-end responsibility for delivering scalable, performant, clean, and maintainable solutions across our web and mobile platforms. Partnering closely with product owners, business analysts, and UX Designers, you’ll build solutions and journeys that create real value for our clients in the financial sector.
Your key responsibilities include:
1. Leading a squad of engineers with a focus on agile delivery
2. Designing technical solution designs, gathering and analysing requirements
3. Planning agile sprints and coordination with release management
4. Driving architectural improvements and refactoring initiatives
5. Overseeing small enhancements to existing software (BAU)
6. Managing external vendors and ensuring technical alignment across projects. Collaborating closely with delivery leads, analysts, technical support teams and business stakeholders
About you
You’re someone who is eager to grow - in both knowledge and leadership. You thrive in a collaborative environment and have technical expertise to guide others.
You’ll succeed in this role if you have:
7. Extensive hands-on experience as a full-stack software engineer, ideally in in Java EE-based web applications
8. A track record of leading development teams, with experience in a (junior) leadership or mentoring role
9. A commitment to high-quality, maintainable code
10. Practical experience with web MVC frameworks (preferably Spring MVC and Struts), and API design
11. Solid knowledge of ORM frameworks and relational databases (preferably Hibernate/JPA and Oracle RDBMS)
12. A proactive mindset - you refactor and improve code as you go
13. Exposure to microservice architecture and cloud technologies(ideally AWS)
14. Strong communication skills across all levels and teams
15. Fluency in both German (must be B2 or above) and English
Why join us?
You’ll receive a comprehensive benefits package, flexible working arrangements, and continuous support for your personal and professional development.
We’re committed to helping you thrive - at work and beyond. Learn more about our culture, values, and opportunities at careers.fidelityinternational.com.