Founded by two engineers, Swissquote makes trading opportunities accessible to everyone and we challenge everything that makes traditional banking irrelevant.
The Swissquote Tech Hub in Bucharest is meant to create a new high-calibre location for the Swissquote engineering group. The Tech Hub is structured around the design, build and maintenance of innovative and reliable systems, products and services. Operating within a collaborative Agile environment, we aim to deliver effective solutions to the business and our customers using our evolving platforms.
We are looking for a skilled and passionate Java Developer to join our dynamic team. As part of our innovative engineering group, you will contribute to the design, development, and maintenance of robust and scalable solutions that support our financial services platforms.
Responsibilities:
- Perform design reviews, provide input and estimate effort required for implementation
- Design application components to meet the business requirements and the functional design
- Write clean, efficient, and well-structured code that ensures stability, reliability, and performance
- Develop unit, integration and End2End tests to the highest possible coverage levels by using modern test frameworks
- Provide support for applications, troubleshooting issues, fixing bugs, and addressing production incidents
- Create builds and deployment baselines, deployment notes and operating instructions
- Work closely with financial experts to gain first-hand experience and discuss possible solutions and alternatives to embed their requests
What you will bring:
- A proactive, collaborative, and curious mindset with a strong desire to continuously learn and grow in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
- Solid experience (4+ years) with Java (versions 8 to 25), with a focus on modern frameworks (Spring/Spring Boot)
- Experience with databases such as Oracle, Postgres, and familiarity with Redis
- Knowledge of RESTful services
- Experience with Spring Data or Hibernate
- Proficiency in Docker and containerization
- Understanding of deployment in Kubernetes
- Hands-on experience with Kafka, Schema Registry
- Advanced English skills
Nice to have:
- Familiar with AI usage in an enterprise mode
- Some experience with Kafka Streams
- Pub/sub client-server architectures, including WebSockets would be a plus
- Experience with Solr databases
- Understanding of deployment in Istio or any similar service mesh
What we offer:
- Modern, international work environment built on collaboration, flexibility and respect
- Hybrid way of working (1 day per week in the office)
- Exciting opportunity to boost your career and develop solid banking and Fintech business expertise
- 25+ annual days off
- Annual bonus
- Medical insurance
- Meal tickets
- Shares plan
- Bookster
Skills Required
- 4+ years of professional experience with Java, versions 8 to 25
- Experience with Spring or Spring Boot
- Experience with Oracle or PostgreSQL databases
- Familiarity with Redis
- Knowledge of RESTful services
- Experience with Spring Data or Hibernate
- Proficiency in Docker and containerization
- Understanding of Kubernetes deployment
- Hands-on experience with Kafka and Schema Registry
- Advanced English skills
- Familiarity with enterprise AI usage
- Experience with Kafka Streams
- Experience with publish/subscribe architectures or WebSockets
- Experience with Solr databases
- Understanding of Istio or another service mesh
What We Do
We are Switzerland’s leading bank in online financial services and offer our clients innovative and state-of-the-art solutions to meet their investment needs. Headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, we have additional offices in Zurich, Luxembourg, London, Cyprus, Dubai, Hong Kong, Malta, Singapore, and Bucharest. Swissquote Group Holding Ltd has been listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange (symbol: SQN) since May 2000 and is regulated by the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA). As well as various online trading products - including stocks, bonds, funds derivative products, and cryptocurrencies – Swissquote also provides Forex, Robo-Advisory, and Mortgages solutions. Today, we are proud to deliver our services to + 500’000 clients with access to more than 60 stock exchanges worldwide and can trade over 3 million products through performant and secure platforms. Swissquote is the marketing brand for the activities of Swissquote Bank Ltd (Switzerland) regulated by FINMA, Swissquote Bank Europe SA (Luxembourg) regulated by the CSSF, Swissquote Bank Ltd (UK) regulated by the FCA, Swissquote Financial Services (Malta) Ltd regulated by the MFSA, Swissquote MEA Ltd. (UAE) regulated by the DFSA, Swissquote Pte Ltd (Singapore) regulated by the MAS, Swissquote Asia Limited (Hong Kong) licensed by the Hong Kong SFC.
