Expert Software Engineer

Founded and headquartered in Switzerland, Avaloq is continuously expanding its global footprint with around 2,500 colleagues in 10 countries, and more than 170 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.

Our business frameworks team are an engaged and dynamic group of professionals who play a crucial role in creating the core elements of the Avaloq Banking Suite, which serve numerous Global banking clients . Our primary focus areas include:

• Business Process Management: Streamlining and improving the banks' internal processes to enhance efficiency
• Object Framework: Maintain and improve the framework which stores banking data as objects in the underlying database
• Rule Engines: Maintaining and improving systems that automate decision-making processes based on predefined rules.

We collaborate closely with both our customers and partners to craft and implement innovative solutions tailored to our customers' needs. This collaborative approach allows us to stay at the forefront of the banking industry, particularly in relation to pioneering initiatives in Switzerland, Europe, and Asia.

Our team is composed of software engineers and a product owner, all of whom prioritize the customer in their daily activities. We operate with a high degree of autonomy and adhere to agile methodologies, which emphasize flexibility, iterative progress, and constant improvement. Despite the pressure of tight deadlines, we are committed to maintaining the highest quality standards in our work.

Your key tasks:

• Closely collaborate with the Team Lead, Product Owner, Team Architect and other Software Engineers
• Write solution designs for new developments and have them reviewed with our technical leads and architects
• Participate in client workshops and support our business analysts in requirements analysis
• Design, develop and maintain thought-out solutions within the team's responsibility
• Improve and optimize existing functionalities
• Develop and maintain automated tests, quality insurance
• Take ownership and responsibility for your area of expertise
• Work with agile mindset, process and ticketing platforms (Jira)  

• Strong evidence-able continuous relevant software development experience
• Experience of working with database technologies (SQL, Oracle PL/SQL) 
• Java programming language and frameworks.
• Eager to learn and understand the business needs aiming to provide clean designs and high-quality code
• Strong conceptual and analytical mind with a structured and autonomous approach to work on complex technical and business problems

It would be a real bonus if you have

• University degree in Computer Science or related discipline
• Interest in maintaining Rule Engines
• Good understanding of Java, Spring framework and Spring Boot, Hibernate/JPA, SQL 
• Experience with developing Domain-specific languages (DSLs)
• Knowledge / experience in Git, Gradle, Jenkins

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.