Requirements Engineer (German Required)

Senior Requirements Engineer – Banking/Fintech (German-speaking, Remote/EEA)

Our partner company, active in the financial services sector, is looking for a Senior Requirement Engineer to join a Scrum-based software delivery team on a contract basis, supporting a lending/financing platform.

Framework conditions

• Location: Remote, with occasional on-site presence at the Budapest office
  
• Contract period: End of 2027, with a possibility of extension
  
• Working language: German (fluent required)
  

What you'll do

• Drive the requirements engineering process across the entire software lifecycle, from ideation to production deployment
  
• Elicit, analyze, and align business requirements with stakeholders and domain experts
  
• Translate business needs into user stories, acceptance criteria, and detailed functional specifications
  
• Support the Product Owner in backlog refinement and prioritization
  
• Work closely with developers to ensure a shared understanding of requirements and business goals
  
• Assess the impact of functional and technical changes on existing processes and systems
  
• Support testing activities, defect analysis, and business acceptance
  
• Ensure clear, consistent documentation of requirements and solution artifacts
  

Requirements

What you'll bring

• At least 5 years of experience as a Requirements Engineer, Business Analyst, or System Analyst
  
• Experience in the banking or financial services industry
  
• A track record of analyzing and specifying requirements for complex software solutions
  
• Strong experience writing user stories, acceptance criteria, and functional specifications
  
• Solid SQL knowledge and understanding of data models, APIs, and system integrations
  
• Technical understanding of end-to-end processes and distributed system landscapes
  
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments
  
• Fluent German and good written/spoken English
  
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
  
• Senior-level independence, with the ability to become productive quickly
  

Nice to have

• Experience with lending, loan origination, or online financing platforms
  
• Knowledge of loan application, credit assessment, credit decisioning, or loan servicing processes
  
• Experience with Camunda or comparable process modeling tools
  
• Experience in software testing, business acceptance testing, and defect analysis
  
• Experience with Jira and Confluence
  
• Experience working in distributed or international teams
  

If you're a German-speaking Requirements Engineer looking for a senior, high-autonomy role on a banking/fintech platform, with the flexibility of remote work from within the EEA, we'd love to hear from you.