Market Operations Specialist (f/m/x)

About lemon.markets 🍋

We enable anyone to be an investor. Our mission is to grow investing opportunities for all European customers and businesses. By empowering FinTechs, banks, and wealth managers to offer investment products, we help create financial well-being for their customers.

lemon.markets is a Brokerage-as-a-Service platform: simple digital access to capital markets through a single API. Our API-first infrastructure abstracts brokerage complexity with a well-documented API, a self-service customer operations portal, and a clear regulatory framework, so partners can launch customer-centric, compliant products in weeks, not months.

As part of the dwpbank Group, we share a clear goal: we enable anyone to be an investor by making investing in capital markets more accessible. By combining dwpbank’s long-standing expertise and stability with lemon.markets’ technology-first mindset and speed, we are building a modern, modular securities services ecosystem. Together, we offer faster time-to-market, modular services, and a modern customer experience that helps financial service providers stay competitive and respond more flexibly in a changing market.

Your Mission

As our Market Operations Specialist, you will help ensure that our daily trading and post-trade operations run reliably, transparently, and at scale. You will join the Investing Operations team, working closely with colleagues across investment operations, corporate actions, and securities operations, and collaborate with Product, Engineering, Compliance, and external partners where operational processes intersect. Your work will directly support smooth order handling, robust controls, regulatory compliance, and a high-quality operational backbone for our partners and their end customers. Over the next 6 to 12 months, your focus will be on executing and stabilising recurring market operations processes, improving exception handling, and helping bring more structure and transparency to a growing operational setup. The role sits at the intersection of trading operations, process discipline, and cross-functional problem-solving in a regulated environment. This creates the opportunity to improve reliability and scalability while reducing manual effort, operational risk, and friction across counterparties and internal systems.

In this role you will:

• Execute recurring market operations and trading-related processes across the order and post-trade lifecycle, ensuring reliable daily operations and consistent service quality for partners and end investors.

• Monitor core controls such as best execution oversight, regulatory reporting, and instrument master data management, helping maintain operational accuracy, compliance, and transparency.

• Investigate operational exceptions, breaks, and failed workflows together with internal stakeholders and external partners, resolving issues quickly to reduce risk and avoid downstream disruption.

• Collaborate with Product and Engineering to surface tooling gaps, process pain points, and automation opportunities, enabling more scalable workflows and less manual operational effort.

• Support reconciliations, reporting, and issue resolution across systems and counterparties, helping create a stronger control environment and more reliable operational outcomes.

• Improve documentation, process visibility, and operational discipline across recurring and one-off workflows, so the team can scale sustainably and respond effectively in a dynamic market environment.

You’ll be successful in this role if you:

• You bring hands-on experience from market operations, brokerage operations, middle or back office, trade support, or a similar environment with exposure to pre-trade, trading, and post-trade processes.

• You have broad knowledge of financial instruments, market infrastructure, and the operational realities of working with banks, brokers, exchanges, market makers, or fintechs.

• You are confident with reconciliations, controls, incident handling, exception management, and operational reporting in regulated trading environments.

• You are comfortable using spreadsheets, dashboards, internal tools, and written documentation to manage recurring processes and drive clarity.

• You work in a structured, detail-oriented, and hands-on way, take ownership of recurring operations, and stay focused on what is most critical in dynamic situations.

• You enjoy improving broken processes, collaborating across functions, and contributing to more scalable operations through better structure, tooling, and automation input.

How we take care of you:

• 🚀 Compensation package: We offer you a competitive salary, based on your experience and the value-add you bring to lemon.markets.

• 🕑 Flexible working hours: We trust people to choose when they work best and avoid a rigid 9 to 5 mindset. You decide on the rhythm that helps you do your best work, with only shared core hours from 12:00 to 16:00 to support collaboration.

• 🏢 Hybrid work setup: You can work from anywhere in Germany within a hybrid model. At the same time, in-person collaboration is a key part of our culture. That being said, individual contributer lemoneers work 4 days or more in our Berlin office, spending quality time together with the team at events, onsites/offsites or over team dinners.

• 📈 Grow with us: We take your personal development seriously! You’ll get regular mentorship and stretch opportunities, a clear career development framework with frequent feedback conversations as well as an annual learning budget.

• 🌱 People & culture: You’ll feel our culture in the small things, like polaroids from our lemoneers’ first day, Friday food market strolls at Maybachufer, and our monthly new-joiner breakfast. But also in the bigger things: celebrating the onboarding of new partners, growing our teams, and owning a strong discussion culture.

• 💛 Perks & benefits: We choose benefits that add actual value. We sponsor a Deutschlandticket for employees on unlimited contracts, plus 50% off on Beatvest - our partner for financial education and investing.

• 🏝 Workation: Get out of here! At lemon.markets you can work remotely from anywhere in the EU for up to 10 consecutive days at a time, and up to 60 days per year in total.

As an equal opportunity employer, lemon.markets is committed to building an inclusive workplace. The company welcomes people from all different backgrounds, including age, citizenship, ethnic and racial origins, gender identities, individuals with disabilities, marital status, religions and ideologies, and sexual orientations to apply.

If you feel this role could be a great match for you even if you don’t tick every box, we’d still love to hear from you, please apply.

You have any questions? Feel free to contact us via [email protected]