Senior Java Engineer

Company Description

Founded and headquartered in Switzerland, Avaloq is continuously expanding its global footprint with around 2,500 colleagues in 12 countries, and more than 160 clients in 35 countries. We are an industry-leading provider of wealth management technology and services for financial institutions around the world, including private banks and wealth managers, investment managers, as well as retail and neo banks. Our research led approach and continual innovation is powered by the passion and creativity of our colleagues.
We are always looking for talented people to join us on our mission to orchestrate the financial ecosystem and democratize access to wealth management. Avaloq offers the opportunity to work closely with some of the world’s leading financial institutions as we jointly develop and shape careers. Championing a collaborative, supportive and flexible work environment empowers our colleagues to reach their full potential.

Job Description

The Investment Advisory team is dedicated to developing innovative advisory applications to meet the evolving needs of the banking market. We are seeking an experienced, highly motivated, and self-driven software engineer with strong conceptual skills and a client-focused approach.

Your tasks

• Collaborate with an agile development team to align with the product roadmap.
• Take ownership and responsibility in your area of expertise, including performing code reviews.
• Design and implement back-end services.
• Guide, coach, and train the team, including junior members.
• Establish coding and design patterns, promoting best coding practices within the team.
• Align with architects to understand architectural strategy, policies, and patterns.
• Improve code quality through unit and integration tests and support the optimization of the release process.

Qualifications

• Post Graduate Diploma / Master’s Degree in Computer Science/Information Technology.
• At least 5 years of experience with back-end technologies: Java 8+, Spring Boot, RESTful API building, ideally in building highly scalable applications using microservices.
• Strong understanding of design patterns used in Java and microservices.
• Interest in front-end development with Angular.
• Knowledge of Jira and Confluence.
• Experience in the financial services industry.
• Experience with PL/SQL programming and databases.
• Familiarity with OpenShift/Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, and DevOps practices (e.g., release preparation).

Additional Information

We realize that managing work life balance is a challenge we all face in our daily lives and in order to support with this we are pleased to offer hybrid and flexible working for most of our Avaloqers to maintain work life balance and still continue our fantastic Avaloq culture in our global offices. 

In Avaloq we are proud to embrace diversity and understand the success of our business is built on the power of different opinions, we are whole heartedly committed to fostering an equal opportunity environment and inclusive culture where you can be your true authentic self. 

We hire, compensate and promote regardless of origin, age, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other fantastic traits that make us all unique, we have done our best to write this advert in an inclusive and neutral way. 

Please be aware that we will not accept speculative CV submissions for any of our roles from recruitment agencies, and any unsolicited candidate submissions will be exempt from any payment expectations.

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