Senior Software Engineer (Java)

Founded and headquartered in Switzerland, Avaloq is continuously expanding its global footprint with around 2,500 colleagues in 10 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.

You will be part of a highly professional team in the CTO Engineering division with motivated, committed, and adaptive colleagues. We offer an open and collaborative environment, where you can speak up anytime and drive initiatives.

We are enabling containerization and microservices development at Avaloq by developing platforms, tools, and frameworks used across the company.

You will get the opportunity to work with technology stacks including: Java, Spring, Kafka, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Gradle, just to name a few.

We explore new technologies and potentially adapting them for usage within our environment. We are eager to learn and love to take up new challenges.

Your tasks:

• Build and maintain frameworks and tools for microservices running on Kubernetes, used by development teams and clients.
• Take ownership of some parts of the frameworks and tools.
• Supporting development teams working on microservices.
• Supporting clients to adopt OpenShift container platform, install, and configure Avaloq microservices.
• Working in an agile environment, helping to constantly improve our processes.

• University degree in computer science, business informatics, computer/electronic engineering, or equivalent experience.
• minimum 5 years experience in Java development and associated frameworks (e.g.: JEE and Spring).
• Highly motivated, collaborative team player who likes to analyze and solve complex challenges.
• Comfortable with communicating with stakeholders and collaborating with other teams.
• Strong written and spoken English language skills.

It would be a real bonus if you have:

• Experience with cloud architecture concepts (e.g. Operators, Microservices, Containers).
• Familiar with Cloud Development techniques, principles, and tools.
• Experience with cloud platforms like Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), AWS, or Azure.
• Knowledge and practical experience in using open-source libraries and tools within development projects.

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.