Senior UI Engineer

Job ID: R0403935

Full/Part-Time: Full-time

Regular/Temporary: Regular

Listed:

Location: Pune

Job Title: Senior UI Engineer (React, Microservices, GCP), AVP

Location: Pune, India

Role Description

• Engineer is responsible for managing or performing work across multiple areas of the bank's overall IT Platform/Infrastructure including analysis, development, and administration. It may also involve taking functional oversight of engineering delivery for specific departments.
• Synthix is a financial technology company from Deutsche Bank specializing in SaaS based embedded finance solutions, integrating banking and non-banking services into unified platform experiences.

Deutsche Bank's Corporate Bank division is a leading provider of cash management, trade finance and securities finance. We complete green-field projects that deliver the best Corporate Bank - Securities Services products in the world. Our team is diverse, international, and driven by shared focus on clean code and valued delivery. At every level, agile minds are rewarded with competitive pay, support, and opportunities to excel.

You will work as part of a cross-functional agile delivery team. You will bring an innovative approach to software development, focusing on using the latest technologies and practices, as part of a relentless focus on business value. You will be someone who sees engineering as team activity, with a predisposition to open code, open discussion and creating a supportive, collaborative environment. You will be ready to contribute to all stages of software delivery, from initial analysis right through to production support.

What we'll offer you

As part of our flexible scheme, here are just some of the benefits that you'll enjoy

• Best in class leave policy
• Gender neutral parental leaves
• 100% reimbursement under childcare assistance benefit (gender neutral)
• Sponsorship for Industry relevant certifications and education
• Employee Assistance Program for you and your family members
• Comprehensive Hospitalization Insurance for you and your dependents
• Accident and Term life Insurance
• Complementary Health screening for 35 yrs. and above

Your key responsibilities

• Lead the architecture, design, and development of scalable, enterprise-grade UI applications using React, JavaScript, and modern UI frameworks.
• Drive UI strategy, component architecture, performance optimization, and best practices for large-scale applications.
• Collaborate with backend teams to design and integrate microservice-based architectures in GCP, ensuring secure and performant communication layers between services and UI.
• Provide technical leadership in frontend engineering practices, coding standards, and design patterns.
• Translate complex business requirements into intuitive, user-friendly, and visually compelling interfaces.
• Mentor junior engineers through code reviews, pair programming, and technical guidance.
• Work within Agile methodology, leading sprint planning, estimation, and architecture discussions.
• Drive end-to-end CI/CD pipelines for UI applications on cloud-native platforms.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Product, UX, Backend, QA) to deliver high-quality applications.
• Stay up to date with emerging frontend, cloud-native, and DevOps technologies and bring innovative approaches to improve productivity and scalability.
• Develop RESTful APIs and gRPC services in Go for microservices running in GCP Cloud Run would be a plus.
• Design and propose solutions for user stories, ensuring scalability, performance, and maintainability.
• Write unit tests and integration tests, practicing TDD/BDD principles.
• Ensure system observability with logging, metrics, and monitoring in cloud-native environments.
• Adhere to software engineering design patterns, SOLID principles, and clean code practices.
• Engage stakeholders and cross-functional teams with effective communication and problem-solving.

Your skills and experience

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field.
• 8–10 years of professional software development experience, with at least 6+ years in building enterprise-scale UI applications with React (JavaScript/TypeScript), including hooks, state management (Redux/Context), and component-driven development.
• Strong understanding of UI development practices, REST API consumption, asynchronous data fetching, and modern React ecosystem tooling.
• Proven experience in leading and architecting frontend applications with microservice-driven backends.
• Expertise in frontend performance optimization, responsive UI, accessibility standards, and cross-browser compatibility.
• Solid understanding of microservices design principles, with experience building UIs that consume distributed, containerized backends.
• Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and cloud-native architectures, including:
• GCP Pub/Sub and messaging systems
• GCP storage, networking, and security integrations
• GCP CI/CD pipelines for UI applications
• Proficiency in RESTful API integration with microservices.
• Strong experience in API Gateway, authentication/authorization frameworks (OAuth2, JWT, SSO).
• Familiar with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Ansible) for provisioning UI-related resources.
• Deep knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and design patterns and how they apply to scalable UI systems.
• Strong in modern software engineering practices (TDD, BDD, automated testing, CI/CD pipelines).
• Experience with modern SDLC tools: Git, JIRA, ADO, Artifactory, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or equivalent.
• Familiarity with backend languages such as Go (Golang) and Java/SpringBoot to effectively collaborate in cross-functional environments.
• Strong communication and leadership skills, with the ability to drive UI strategy and influence decision-making across teams.
• Working knowledge of SQL and database modelling.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to debug complex distributed systems.
• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written) to present technical ideas and collaborate with business stakeholders.
• Ability to follow and promote software engineering best practices, including design reviews, coding standards, and testing strategies.
• Experience working in cross-functional teams as a full-stack contributor.
• Demonstrated ability to learn new technologies and adapt quickly to changing environments.

How we'll support you

• Training and development to help you excel in your career
• Coaching and support from experts in your team
• A culture of continuous learning to aid progression
• A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs

About us and our teams

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We strive for a culture in which we are empowered to excel together every day. This includes acting responsibly, thinking commercially, taking initiative and working collaboratively.

Together we share and celebrate the successes of our people. Together we are Deutsche Bank Group.

We welcome applications from all people and promote a positive, fair and inclusive work environment.