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Deutsche Brse Group is one of the largest exchange organizations worldwide. Information Technology designs, builds, and operates the technological infrastructure of the company. These highly integrated and automated IT systems are a key factor in our success.

The Settlement department is responsible for real-time banking applications in the post-trade processing area of Clearstream. We are looking for a C++ Software Application Developer to join the ICSD Settlement team, which develops and operates Clearstreams core backend real-time Clearing and Settlement engine.

In this role, you will work on mission-critical, high-performance systems used globally, contributing hands-on to development and maintenance while collaborating closely with experienced engineers in an international environment.

Your responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain backend C++ applications in a production environment
• Take ownership of well-defined features and components, from implementation to testing
• Analyse requirements and collaborate with business analysts and testers
• Actively participate in code reviews, ensuring quality, performance, and maintainability
• Contribute to automated testing and CI/CD pipelines
• Investigate and resolve production issues, including root-cause analysis
• Support system reliability and operational stability
• Follow internal development standards, security guidelines, and documentation practices
• Contribute ideas for technical improvements and modernization
• You will work independently on assigned topics, while having access to senior colleagues for complex design or architectural discussions.

What you will work with:

• Backend applications primarily written in C++ (C++14)
• Oracle database
• Systems running on Linux (RHEL9)
• Real-time, parallel processing architecture based on microservices
• Messaging technologies such as ActiveMQ and Oracle Advanced Queuing
• You will contribute to both day-to-day development activities and longer-term initiatives such as system modernization and cloud adoption (e.g. containerisation, orchestration).
• The team offers a flexible development environment supporting multiple IDEs and tooling choices, tailored to developer preferences and productivity.

Your profile:

• At least 2+ years of professional software development experience
• Practical experience with C++ in a production environment
• Solid understanding of object-oriented design, memory management, and debugging
• Experience working with SQL databases, ideally Oracle
• Confident working in Linux/Unix environments
• Familiarity with build tools, version control, and automated testing
• Exposure to or interest in modern technologies such as: Cloud platforms (Azure, or GCP), Docker, containerization, or OpenShift, Python, Ansible, Terraform (advantage, not required)
• Ability to work independently on tasks while collaborating effectively in a team
• Interest in financial systems, post-trade processing, or high-availability systems is a plus
• Good written and spoken English

You can look forward to our benefit package:

• Hybrid Work and Flexible working hours
• Work from abroad - 12 days of remote work from EU countries per year
• Group Share Plan - discount on company shares
• Pension fund contribution - 3% of your gross salary (5% after 5 years with us)
• Health & Wellbeing - fully covered Multisport card, life & accident insurance, sick days and 100% salary contribution during sick leave (up to 56 days)
• 25 vacation days
• Mobility - fully covered public transport in Prague & free parking
• Flexible Benefit Account (Pluxee) - 1200 per month
• Free Access to E-Learning Platforms, Internal Development Programs, Mentoring & Learning Budget