Senior Java Engineer (Messaging)

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

In the Integration Plaform Domain, we provide banks a sustainable path in combining Avaloq Core banking system and ecosystem products.

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 integrating our Avaloq Core Banking systems with different third parties being able to cope with all the new technologies.

In the Messaging team we evolve and maintain solutions that allows to integrate third parties over the Messaging protocols.

We are looking for passionate Senior Backend Engineers to join our team to help us in the development and maintenance of our integration products.

Your key tasks

• Work as part of an agile development team in line with the product roadmap
• Design and develop Back-End Integration products and 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

Qualifications

• 5+ years of development experience preferred with a Bachelors degree in Software Engineering 
• Full-stack Java development experience (java 17+) including knowledge of common tooling such as Spring Boot and JPA, GraphQL, Liquibase, and Spring Security
• Proficiency in building messaging services
• Knowledge of traditional software development processes and tools, including Git, Gradle and Jenkins CI tool, JIRA, Confluence, Code Reviews
• Hands-on experience developing microservices using modern technologies such as Apache Kafka, REST APIs, containerization ( Kubernetes), and cloud-based infrastructure
• Testing frameworks: Junit, Mockito
• Basic Linux operating system knowledge
• Authentication and security protocols

It would be a real bonus if you have

• Knowledge of Avaloq Core Banking System and AMI functionalities
• Wealth management or private banking knowledge

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.