finanzen.net GmbH

Director of Engineering (m/w/d) – Group Platform

finanzen.net GmbH  •  Karlsruhe, DE (Hybrid)  •  2 months ago
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Job Description

Unternehmensbeschreibung

About Finanzen.net Group

Finanzen.net Group is an innovative FinTech company that supports both private and professional investors in making informed investment decisions.

The group includes:

  • finanzen.net – one of the leading financial information portals in the DACH region

  • finanzen.net ZERO – a neobroker offering low-cost and secure trading of securities

  • TraderFox – a provider of financial information and trading tools for professional investors and those aspiring to become one

Our Vision

We strive to be the best partner for our customers on their investment journey.

Growth and Acquisition

At the beginning of 2025, the Finanzen Group was acquired by Inflexion, a leading European private equity firm in the mid-cap segment. Inflexion supports ambitious management teams in developing and scaling high-growth companies sustainably.

As part of the acquisition, the previously independent business units are being strategically integrated. This realignment, combined with the group's strong innovative capabilities, creates new growth opportunities to further strengthen its position as a leading investment platform.

Working With Us

To successfully implement our growth strategy and value creation program, we are looking for talented individuals who want to actively shape this transformation.



We value personal exchange: we work hybrid – three collaborative days at one of our hubs in Karlsruhe, Munich, or Berlin, and two days remote.

Stellenbeschreibung

Core Responsibilities:

  • Platform & Developer Experience Define and evolve the internal platform — cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, and developer tooling — so that product engineering teams can deliver safely and at high velocity. Drive a "platform as a product" mindset, treating internal teams as customers.
  • Quality Engineering Own the group-wide QA strategy. Set QA standards and work with the QA engineers who are embedded in the product teams. Set standards for automated testing standards, quality gates, and cross-team release confidence frameworks. Elevate quality from a phase to a continuous practice embedded in every team's workflow.
  • IT & Operational Reliability Ensure robust IT support and business continuity management across all locations. Own tech BCM planning, IT resilience, and the operational readiness of internal systems that keep the organisation running.
  • Security & Compliance Enablement Work in close partnership with the CISO and the Head of Security to translate security strategy into engineering execution. Ensure that ICT risk management, security engineering, and regulatory obligations (BaFin, DSGVO, DORA)
  • AI Internal App Support & Automation Champion the use of AI to accelerate internal productivity in the wider organisation outside of tech. Own the AI Internal App Support function, including AI automation engineers and workflow/process automation specialists, and establish a roadmap for how AI tooling can compound delivery capacity across the organisation.

Qualifikationen

  • Platform Leadership: Proven experience leading platform/infrastructure engineering teams in fintech, banking, or high-scale digital environments.

  • Broad Engineering Domain: Strong understanding across cloud operations (AWS/Azure), DevOps/DevSecOps, mobile engineering, QA, and modern SRE practices.

  • Security & Compliance: Hands-on knowledge of security and regulatory compliance frameworks (DORA, GDPR/DSGVO, BaFin).

  • Scaling Horizontal Functions: Track record of scaling platform/shared teams to enable broader engineering orgs efficiently.

  • Multiplier mindset: focuses on enabling product teams and driving outcomes over team size.

  • Cross-functional Influence: Excellent cross-functional influence with Engineering, Security, Finance, and Executive leadership.

  • Operational rigor: establishes SLAs, incident management, on-call, and data-driven metrics.

  • Advocate for AI adoption to improve engineering productivity and automation at scale.

  • Skilled in change management introducing standards and tools through enablement, not top-down mandates.

  • Security Engineering: Deep technical expertise in cloud-native architectures, infrastructure-as-code, containers, cost optimization, and security engineering (zero-trust, secrets management, secure SDLC).

  • Strong observability and reliability knowledge: SLOs, error budgets, incident response, post-mortem culture, and resilient system design.

Zusätzliche Informationen

You’ll join a modern work environment with over 250 colleagues, shaped by trust, flexibility, and genuine collaboration. You’ll work in a hybrid setup and use our office hubs in Karlsruhe, Munich or Berlin; complemented by up to 15 days of “workation” within the EU per calendar year.

We actively support your personal and professional development through training, seminars, and conferences in the dynamic fintech and stock/financial sector. We place great importance on an open, collaborative atmosphere, team spirit, and shared success.

You can also expect the following benefits:

  • Modern office hubs & hybrid working

  • Training and development opportunities in financial markets/investing

  • Regular team events & a strong company culture

  • Health & mobility benefits (bike leasing, public transport subsidy)

  • Attractive financial benefits & additional perks

  • An environment where you can contribute, grow, and feel comfortable

finanzen.net GmbH

About finanzen.net GmbH

Unter dem Dach der finanzen.net GmbH findet sich heute ein breites Portfolio an Online Portalen und mobilen Angeboten wieder. Unser Kernprodukt www.finanzen.net ist Deutschlands größtes und am schnellsten wachsendes Börsenportal.

finanzen.net vereint tagesaktuelle Daten zu den Entwicklungen am Finanzmarkt mit Realtime­Push­Kursen zu Indizes, Rohstoffen und Devisen sowie Informationen zu Aktien, Unternehmen, Zertifikaten, Fonds und zur Konjunktur. Interaktive Tools zur Chartanalyse, Musterdepots und persönliche Nachrichtenseiten machen das Angebot individualisierbar.

Neben der deutschen Plattform betreiben wir Finanz– und Börsenportale in der Schweiz, in Österreich sowie in den USA. Darüber hinaus stellen wir unseren Nutzern eine Vielzahl mobiler Angebote zur Verfügung.

Um den Erfolg unserer Finanzprodukte sicherzustellen, setzen wir nicht nur auf innovative Inhalte, sondern stellen darüber hinaus einen sehr hohen Anspruch an die bei uns zum Einsatz kommende Technologie. Diese erlaubt es uns beispielsweise, mehrere Zehntausend User gleichzeitig mit Realtime­ Pushkursen zu versorgen.

Im Januar 2016 wurde das Produktspektrum von finanzen.net um ein Brokerage Angebot erweitert. Damit ist es den Usern von finanzen.net möglich, direkt aus der Informationswelt heraus Wertpapiere zu handeln.

Industry
Finance & Insurance
Company Size
51-200 employees
Headquarters
Karlsruhe, DE
Year Founded
Unknown
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