DKB Code Factory GmbH
2022 - Present
Software Engineer
Building high-throughput banking microservices and internal AI developer tooling for a leading German digital bank.
- Delivered a greenfield cash-transaction microservice processing EUR 5M+ in its first month of operation
- Built internal AI developer tooling — an AI-powered chatbot and automated code reviewer — improving developer productivity and stakeholder knowledge access
- Implemented SEPA Instant Payments and Verification of Payee (VoP) flows for compliant real-time payment processing
- Cut API response times from 1s to under 200ms across high-throughput account and transaction microservices (Java 17/21, Kotlin, Spring Boot)
- Led the incident response lifecycle — post-mortems and root-cause analysis — improving system reliability
- Maintained code quality through TDD (JUnit, Mockito), enabling safe refactoring in a fast-moving codebase
- Berlin
- Java
- Kotlin
- Spring Boot
- AI
- Fintech