Senior Java Backend Developer/Tech Lead (Digital Assets)

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

Our team is responsible for the implementation of the Avaloq Crypto Assets Platform.

You will be surrounded by smart, highly capable people who are passionate to build the next generation of innovative applications to address the upcoming challenges of the Crypto and Blockchain industry.

We are looking for passionate Senior Backend Developer / Tech Lead to join our team and bring these innovative designs live.

Your key tasks 

• Work as part of an agile development team in line with the product roadmap
• Design and implement Back-End Services
• Improve code quality via Unit and Integration tests
• Follow and promote best coding practices within the team
• Perform code reviews and coach junior team members
• Take ownership and responsibility for his area of expertise
• Guide, coach and train the team to excel
• Establishing coding and design patterns within the team
• Align and exchange with architects to understand architectural strategy, policies and pattern

Qualifications

• At least 6 years of experiences with back-end competences: Java 8+, Spring Boot, RESTful API building
• Knowledge/ Experiences in Openshift/Kubernetes
• Knowledge/ Experiences in GraphQL
• Knowledge/ Experiences in Liquibase, Spring JPA, Spring Security
• Knowledge and experience with public cloud
• Basic knowledge of Jira and Confluence
• Experience in talent development, coaching and honing of technical skills.

It would be a real bonus if you have 

• Workflow management tool Flowable
• Able to work as a full-stack developer (Java script and Angular)
• Bring blockchain and banking domain knowledge
• Experience with DevOps topics (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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