Lead Fullstack Engineer (Anti Financial Crime)
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- AFC Technology (AFC Tech) is responsible for designing, building, and operating the technology platforms that enable Deutsche Bank’s Anti‑Financial Crime (AFC) function
- This includes delivering secure, resilient, and compliant solutions for transaction monitoring, case management, alerting, and data, while meeting regulatory expectations
- AFC Tech partners closely with business, risk, and operations teams to reduce financial crime risk through scalable platforms, strong engineering standards, and continuous modernization
- You will join the AFC Technology organisation in Berlin as a Lead Full Stack Engineer (f/m/x) with a strong focus on UI and frontend architecture
- You will co‑lead a UI Platform team responsible for building and evolving a shared frontend platform used across multiple AFC product teams
- This is a senior, hands‑on technical leadership role focused on creating scalable UI foundations rather than delivering a single product
- While the role includes backend exposure (primarily Java), its primary focus is on modern frontend technologies
- You will drive platform‑level frontend solutions, including Angular component libraries, design systems, Node.js build toolchains, micro frontends, performance, accessibility, and long‑term maintainability
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- Co‑lead the UI Platform team, providing hands‑on technical leadership in close collaboration with the Architect / Lead Engineer
- Design, implement and evolve a scalable Angular‑based UI platform, including a large reusable component library and shared frontend capabilities
- Ensure the platform addresses non‑functional requirements such as performance, accessibility, security, usability and long‑term maintainability
- Partner with downstream product teams to enable adoption, gather feedback and continuously improve the platform
- Ensure all platform development complies with bank standards, security requirements and SDLC best practices
- Experience working closely with UX/UI designers to turn design systems into robust engineering solutions
- Strong experience with automated frontend and platform testing (e.g. Cypress, Playwright, component testing, contract testing)
- Deep expertise in modern frontend engineering, ideally with Angular and TypeScript
- Strong grasp of CSS architecture, accessibility (a11y), performance optimisation and UX consistency at scale
- Significant experience designing and maintaining large‑scale component libraries and/or shared UI platforms (open-source community management is also a plus)
- Strong appreciation of frontend‑to‑backend contracts, API evolution and backwards compatibility
- Good understanding of backend systems and APIs, with hands‑on or prior experience in Java‑based environments (e.g. Spring‑based services)
- Understanding of DevOps / SRE principles in production‑grade systems
- Exposure to containerised environments (Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud‑native delivery models