Job description
Company Description
Scalable Capital is a leading digital investment platform in Europe. The company empowers everyone to shape their financial future. Scalable Broker makes it easy and affordable for clients to invest professionally in stocks, ETFs and other exchange-traded products and set up savings plans. Scalable Wealth, the digital wealth management service, offers clients professional investment in ETF portfolios and is also adopted as a white-label solution by renowned B2B partners. With the European Investor Exchange (EIX) Scalable Capital offers a stock exchange for retail investors in Europe. Over 27 billion euro is held on the platform by more than one million clients.
Scalable Capital was founded in 2014 and employs more than 500 people at its offices in Munich, Berlin, Vienna, and London. Together with the founding and management team around Erik Podzuweit and Florian Prucker, they are working on a new generation of financial services.
Visit our finance blog or check out our Social Media channels to find out what our Expert Teams have to say.
Our Company Values guide us every day in how we work and collaborate. To learn more about them, you can find our values here (English).
Job Description
In this role you will be responsible for developing and fully automating a systematic wealth manager (robo-advisor) overseeing several billion euros in AuM utilizing multi-asset investment strategies. You will productionize algorithmic models that autonomously react to client requests and market movements utilizing cost-effective burst computations with the capacity to handle millions of trades in minutes. This includes risk, cost and tax optimizations; smart rebalancing customizations; liquidity management; and security transitioning using cleanly defined optimization problems, a cutting-edge stack and painstakingly comprehensive test coverage to confidently deploy without delays.
- Develop hands-on in Python alongside a highly motivated team of software engineers and quant developers, driving transformative changes in the financial industry
- Get to work on cutting edge technology and be part of modern software development practices (e.g. agile and self-sufficient teams, continuous integration and deployment, test automation, cloud-based infrastructure and tooling)
- Create wealth management and brokerage services for everybody
- Architect and deploy interfaces connecting the Scalable Capital Robo with key internal services to establish seamless connectivity with the external world
- Fully automate trading algorithms driven by pure quantitative evidence that autonomously manage billions in assets
- Never implement any of the above in spreadsheet tools
Qualifications
- Excellent university degree in computer science, mathematics, natural sciences, or a similar field
- Knowledge in econometrics with an emphasis on portfolio optimization and risk modelling
- Passion for the global financial markets
- Experience with convex optimization, exposure to libraries like cvxpy, scipy or cvxopt
- Passion for Python
- Interest in our tech stack: Docker, CI/CD pipelines, serverless architecture, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), relational databases / SQL
- Experience with cloud providers like AWS
- Excellent communication skills that are clear, concise, and targeted towards your audience
- Fluent English language skills (written & spoken)
- Proactive and independent working style, good time management, fair play
We would be happy if you write to us in the “message to the Hiring Manager” section about what excites you about the role and why you think you would be a great fit! Applications without such motivation will not be considered.
Additional Information
- Be part of one of the fastest-growing and most visible Fintech startups in Europe, creating innovative services that have a substantial impact on the lives of our customers
- Work with an international, diverse, inclusive, and ever-growing team that loves creating the best products for our clients
- Enjoy an office in a great location in the middle of Munich, Berlin or Vienna, or choose to work remotely within Germany or Austria (if eligible for the job)
- Flexible vacation policy and the opportunity to work from abroad
- Be productive with the latest hardware and tools
- Learn and grow by joining our in-house knowledge sharing sessions and spending your individual Education Budget
