Senior Principal Software Engineer (C#/APL)

Job Summary

Senior Principal Software Engineer (C#/APL) - Portfolio Analysisa

We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join an agile team in Portfolio Analytics Product Area. The team works on our SimCorp Dimension product. You will mainly be working with backend and APIs. We use a multitude of tools and technologies such as Visual Studio, C#, Dyalog APL, Azure DevOps within the areas of development and software configuration management.

You will - together with your team - understand and challenge customer requirements, discuss solutions, implement and test the chosen solution, and support it. You will also have opportunities to spend 20% of your time experimenting with new technologies and implementing your ideas.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership in design, development, and testing.
• Help explore how AI can improve user experiences, workflows, and engineering productivity.
• Define and own test architecture and quality strategy at team level.
• Balance active coding (C#, APL) with guiding automation initiatives
• Drive adoption of automation-first practices across the team.
• Ensure high-quality delivery by monitoring coverage, test metrics, and quality KPIs.
• Mentor and coach engineers in development, automation, and testing skills.
• Collaborate with stakeholders (POs, TLs, architects) to align technical and quality goals.
• Conduct in-depth root cause analysis for complex defects and ensure preventive actions
• Advocate for and implementing improvements in tools, CI/CD pipelines, and engineering processes.
• Continuously assessing and improving engineering processes, recommending new tools and technologies to enhance productivity and software quality
• Represent the team in technical forums and contribute to cross-team knowledge exchange.

Requirements

• Advanced C# skills and insight into the .NET framework
• Be able to learn additional technologies like APL
• Experience with developing and integrating middle and backend services and APIs
• You are interested and able to work within the architecture of an enterprise solution
• Actively work with improvements relating to tool stack and engineering practices CI/CD pipelines, test-driven development, telemetry, etc
• You have good English skills and thrive in an international work environment
• You have an M.Sc. in Computer Science or a similar field, or an equivalent level of experience
• Practical experience within financial instruments and financial investment systems is an advantage, but not a prerequisite for the job

Qualifications

• M.Sc. in Computer Science or a similar field, or an equivalent level of experience
• Practical experience within financial instruments and financial investment systems is an advantage

What We Value

Most importantly, you can see yourself contributing and thriving in the position described above. We expect you to be good at several of the following and be able to - and interested in - learning the rest.

• Taking ownership and achieving results
• Trying new approaches to both new and old challenges
• Working with others to leverage the strengths of everyone in the team
• Learning new skills and improving upon existing ones
• Continually looking for ways to improve what we do and how we do it

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