Senior Backend Developer with expertise in DevSecOps

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To strengthen our Digital Investment Management Cluster team, we are looking for an experienced Backend Developer (m/f/d) with expertise in DevSecOps to build and enhance our secure, scalable pre-sales, onboarding and after-sales web applications and the associated underlying services.

The position offers the opportunity to play a vital role in the optimization, harmonization and further global build-out of our Digital Investment Management service offering.

In addition to becoming part of a product team and reporting to the Engineering Chapter Lead in this role, you will join an open-minded, business and tech combining team committed to make "simplicity at scale" happen. We are working in a product-based setup with an agile delivery method.

In this cross-functional Digital Investment Management team we are passionate about putting AllianzGI's unique knowledge to our distribution partners with the means of state-of-the-art technology (e.g. cloud-based services).

This role is based in Frankfurt or Munich, Germany

What You Will Do

• Design, develop, optimize and document high-performance backend services and APIs for wealth management solutions
• Implement secure coding practices and ensure compliance with financial security regulations (e.g. MiFID, WpHG, BaFin)
• Ensure that software design balances functional, quality, security and system requirements
• Work closely with investment professionals, solution architects, DevSecOps and other technology teams to understand business problems and produce scalable solutions to support business growth
• Apply software design methods, tools, and techniques. Undertake impact analysis on design options, make recommendations and assess associated risks
• Improve our CI-CD pipelines, such as optimizing the build times of our Docker images on GitHub Actions
• Improve the scalability of our applications, for instance the auto-scaling of our deployments in Kubernetes and resolve performance bottlenecks
• Strengthen the logging, monitoring and alerting, for example by improving our Datadog sensors, monitors and dashboards, to ensure system health and proactive issue resolution

What You Bring

• 7+ years of professional experience in application development, ideally with Java, Python and Angular skills are a plus
• Proven expertise in API development (e.g. REST) and event-driven architecture (e.g. Kafka, RabbitMQ)
• Extensive experience with authentication and authorization frameworks (OAuth2.0, OpenID Connect, Keycloak, Azure AD)
• Skilled in building cloud-native applications using Docker and Kubernetes, with hands-on experience in automating deployments to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) via CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps); familiarity with Helm is a plus
• Experienced in agile software development and test automation, using modern Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) practices and tools such as Jira, GitHub, and Azure DevOps
• Previous experience with microservice architecture for rapid prototyping and building high-quality, resilient solutions
• Experience with financial regulations – especially with MiFID II and WpHG – and their impact on application design and data handling in digital products; knowledge of statistics / econometrics is a plus
• Degree in Computer Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics or a related STEM field
• Passion for continuous learning and exploring new technologies
• Strong problem-solving skills, ownership mindset, and a passion for building secure and scalable financial applications
• Empathetic team player who is flexible, proactive, self-reliant, and forward thinking
• Proficiency in English, both written and spoken is required

What We Offer

• Flexible working from home and abroad according to internal guidelines (hybrid model/ flexible working hours/cross-border remote work)
• Access to pension/ savings plans/ Allianz products
• Family support (childcare facilities)
• Company share purchasing plan
• Mental health and wellbeing programs
• Mobility solutions (Jobrad bike leasing, subvention Jobticket)
• Career opportunities within the entire Allianz Group
• Self-guided learning & development
• … and so much more

About Allianz Global Investors
Allianz Global Investors is a leading global active asset manager.

We invest for the long term and want to create value for clients every step of the way. We do this by being active – in how we partner with clients and anticipate their needs, and build solutions based on capabilities across public and private markets. Our focus on enhancing our clients' assets leads naturally to a commitment to sustainability for positive change. Our goal is to enhance the investment experience for clients, whatever their location or goals.

Putting our clients' needs first, behaving in a transparent way and treating people fairly means acting with integrity. We encourage a collegial culture, that supports individual responsibility. We invest in the development of our employees to maximize the power of innovation.

We at Allianz believe in a diverse and inclusive workforce, we are committed to the principles of Equal Employment Opportunity and to helping applicants with any disabilities. We encourage you to bring your whole self to work, no matter where you are from, what you look like, who you love or what you believe in. We therefore welcome applications regardless of ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, disability or sexual orientation. Great to have you on board.

If you feel inspired to promote the active asset management experience, this is the place for you. Join our diverse, international, technology-enabled, and agile environment. Simply upload your CV in English to apply for this position If you need support to navigate our websites or at any stage during your application, please send an email with your request to

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