Market Operations Specialist (f/m/d)

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...