AVP - Senior Lead Blockchain Engineer [T500-23077]

About Deutsche Brse Group:

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

Whats your part in all this?

By joining Clearstream IT you will be responsible for creating, maintaining and operating the systems that serve more than 2,500 clients world-wide, covering over 300,000 domestic and internationally traded bonds and equities. Clearstream's core business ensures that cash and securities are promptly and effectively delivered between parties, and that clients are always notified of the rights and obligations attached to the securities they keep under our custody.

Field of activity:

D7 is the platform of Clearstream that offers innovative services to its customers for the issuance of financial securities such as shares, warrants and funds. In other words without the Issuance services, there would be nothing to trade on the German financial market, and the supply will get short for the international markets too. The D7 IT Team develops the next-generation software that enables our business colleagues and customers to boost volume and processing efficiency and as a result to increase revenue and decrease operational costs.

As a Senior Blockchain Software Engineer, you will be responsible for designing and implementing new and existing components to fulfil the functional and technical requirements. You are expected to have a deep expertise in Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT), smart contract development, and decentralized application architecture. Your ability to work on scalable blockchain infrastructure, secure cryptographic systems, and EVM based platforms including Hyperledger Besu will be the key to future success of the D7 Blockchain solution.

Tasks / Responsibilities:

Our team is young, diverse, dynamic and international. We offer a great opportunity to use various technologies and learn about the financial sector. We are looking for employees who enjoy working in a dynamic and flexible environment and are willing to put forward innovative ideas for the company. We value diversity and therefore welcome all applications. Have we piqued your interest? Then we encourage you to apply now!

• Communicate with business owners, business operation people and business analysts from the different departments to understand and shape the requirements
• Implement, and maintain DLT-based systems and blockchain infrastructure.
• Develop and audit smart contracts following secure development standards.
• Contribute in building scalable architectures for dApps, including backend services, transaction pipelines, and on-chain/off-chain interactions.
• Work with consensus mechanisms, permissioning models, and network governance.
• Build and maintain blockchain bridges between EVM-based networks and external (offchain / onchain) systems.
• Integrate Web3 tooling (ethers.js, web3.js, wallets, RPC endpoints).
• Conduct smart contract and infrastructure security reviews.
• Write technical documentation, architecture diagrams, and operational guides.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including DevOps, Security, Product, and Architecture

Qualifications / Required skills:

• University degree in computer science
• 8+ years overall professional experience in IT
• Strong knowledge of DLT fundamentals, peer to peer networks, and distributed consensus.
• Proven experience with EVM-based blockchain platforms, including contract deployment and execution.
• Experience designing and building dApp architectures, both on-chain and off-chain
• Proficiency in Solidity.
• Familiarity with bridges, cross-chain messaging, or interoperability protocols
• Excellent communication skills You explain the IT topics in a manner understandable to people without an IT background. You do not hesitate to ask questions, express your doubts or kindly challenge ideas during discussions. You have no problem admitting and accepting mistakes
• High degree of self-dependence You are self-motivated, looking for opportunities to improve things or your own skills constantly. You take responsibility and are motivated to deliver
• Team player You are able to work with people of different backgrounds and personalities; you are happy to help and share your expertise. You appreciate the skills of others and ask for opinion or review easily

Additional skills considered as advantage:

• Previous experience in the financial sector
• Knowledge of OpenShift / Kubernetes, experience with GCP (or other cloud infra)
• Knowledge of issuance process of securities and settlement
• Team-leading experience
• Experience with Java (Spring boot)
• Understanding the advantages and limitations of test automation