Engineering Lead, Backend Entwicklung, DevOps Ingenieur

Market Vector Indexes GmbH — the international index company of Van Eck and a leading provider of equity, thematic, digital asset, and multi-asset benchmarks — is seeking an Engineering Lead for our Technology department in Frankfurt am Main. In this role, you will lead and mentor a hands‑on engineering team that designs, builds, and operates the platforms behind our global equity, bond, digital asset, and custom indexes, including real‑time data pipelines, index calculation engines, and client‑facing APIs.

You will own the architecture and roadmap of our internal and external platforms — including integrations between tools, data systems, and our public‑facing website — and be accountable for system reliability, security, scalability, and code quality across the SDLC. Working closely with colleagues in IT, Index Research, Operations, Product, Marketing, and Legal, you will coordinate across Frankfurt and New York, as well as with external consultants, to deliver production‑grade services that meet stringent index governance standards.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead and mentor a cross-functional team of backend, frontend, and full-stack developers.
• Support team growth through hiring, onboarding, training, and career development.
• Facilitate daily standups, technical planning sessions, and sprint execution.
• Provide constructive code reviews and promote engineering excellence.

• Contribute to and execute the technical strategy defined with the Co-Head of Technology.
• Make architectural and design decisions for applications, microservices, and platform services.
• Ensure best practices in coding, testing, monitoring, and deployment across Python-based and containerized environments.
• Evaluate new technologies, tools, and frameworks to support growth and innovation.

• Define and drive the roadmap for our internal and external platforms — including data applications, tooling integrations, and the public-facing website.
• Design and oversee integrations between internal tools, third-party services, and the Market Vector website (APIs, webhooks, data feeds, and authentication flows).
• Coordinate the development of microservices that bridge internal systems and external platforms.
• Lead the design and delivery of frontend experiences using micro-frontend architecture, enabling independent deployment and composition of UI modules across platforms.
• Ensure platform architecture supports scalability, modularity, and long-term maintainability on Azure.

• Own the end-to-end delivery of software features and projects.
• Break down complex requirements into actionable tasks.
• Identify technical risks early and provide solutions.
• Ensure development outputs meet performance, security, and reliability standards.

• Establish and refine engineering processes (code review, testing, CI/CD, documentation).
• Support Dev Ops and QA teams in improving automation and release processes, including Docker-based build and deployment pipelines.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement, reliability, and accountability.

• Work closely with the Co-Head of Technology for technical alignment.
• Partner with Product/Project Management and other teams to deliver roadmaps effectively.
• Translate technical concepts into clear communication for non-technical stakeholders.
• Coordinate with Dev Ops, Data, and Architecture leads to ensure system consistency. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.

• 6+ years of hands‑on development experience (backend, frontend, or full-stack).
• Strong proficiency in Python for backend services and data applications.
• Proficiency in…